ANTH 1000 Lecture Notes - Flint Water Crisis, Pierre Bourdieu, Ascribed Status
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Societies combine these modes of distribution and status, although different modes may be more central or dominant in different cultural contexts. Under capitalism, there are two main classes. Under this system, wealth is generated by workers but accumulated by those who own the means of production (aka capital) Prestige - the reputation, influence and deference bestowed on certain people because of their membership in certain groups. Life chances - opportunities to improve your quality of life and achieve goals. The state enables and maintains structures of economic inequality. Universal education was supposed to grant social mobility. Instead, bourdieu found it led to social reproduction. Bourdieu explains this using the concepts of habitus and cultural capital, which can reinforce class differences. Inequality in infant mortality for black mothers in harlem. Race, class and gender all shape the health of black mothers. To understand inequality, we must look as these systems together rather than considering one factors in isolation.
