HONR 370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cultural Capital, Classless Society, Economic System
20 Sep 2016
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Class: relative social rank in terms of income, wealth, education, occupational status, and/or power, cultural aspects: Understanding of world and where you fit. Determines when you marry and become a parent: wealth. What one owns minus what you owe. Top 1% more than bottom 95: status. The degree of honor or prestige attached to one"s position in society: class indicator. A material or experiential factor that reflects an individual"s class. E. g. type of car, size of house, how many vacations. Class: taboo: prior to recession of 2007/2008. Class and money more taboo than discussing sexuality. Children learned not to discuss family income. Shame associated with being too rich or too poor silence invisibility of class: recession revealed reality of wealth inequality. Class continuum: ranking of individuals/families in a society by income, wealth, education, occupational status, or power, range of experiences out of which particular class identities are defined, class experience is relative.
