SOCIOL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Cultural Capital, American Upper Class
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->people absorb early in life, at deep level, basic practices-->working-class people eating around in the kitchen, middle-class in formal dining room, bohemians in kitchen standing around watching someone cook. ->interested in patterns that shape you, what you enjoy, how you seek out your preferences, thought that when you absorb habitus, you also absorb something about where your habits and tastes place you. -skills, habits (e. g. getting up on time; hanging out, dispalying eagerness; getting along with pals; juggling a busy schedule) ->involves a set of skills-->importance of learning how to choose and your habits-->in college, you must choose a major, can"t not choose. ->skills: the idea that you know how to choose, see choosing as something you know how to do, is something that is cultivated, according to lareau. ->habitus: deep and enduring, learn it early, quite hard to change, lareau has similar image of things she"s looking at.
