SOCI 3630 Lecture 11: Lecture 11- Social Class, Mobility and Education
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Material possessions, such as land, housing, electronic goods, clothing, books, art, etc. Disposable income/money and patrimony (i. e. what owned property is worth in financial terms) The kind of work done cross a range of job types, such as blue collar manual labour vs white collar knowledge based labour, or service sector jobs vs. manual jobs, etc. The level of schooling attained and the acquired cultural capital. Education of cultural capital) one has at any point in time (close link here to bourdieu"s notion. Economic barriers however great they may be in the case of golf, skiing, sailing or even riding and tennis- are not sufficient to explain the class distribution of these activities. There are more hidden entry requirements, such as family tradition and early training, or obligatory manner (of dress and behaviour), and socializing techniques, which keep these sports closed to the working class (bourdieu, 1984: 217)
