SOCY 325 Lecture Notes - Mutual Exclusion, Cultural Capital, Individuation

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 325
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

The space creates opportunities to understand the world around us. Habitus is located in a physical and social space. The person comprehends thr world from a specific position. Practical comprehension is not just intellectual comprehension, it is an experience, they have body knowledge and skills. Habitus is embodied in the way people talk and act. Capital determines where you at and determines where you go. Fields have positions positions distinguish between people. A space has positions that characterizes one position relative to other positions. Distinction as distinguished from others: not just individuation, but distinguish oneself, using cultural capital to make one disintct and to be distinguished, distinction through capital. Habitus involves a certain way of talking and acting. Habitus is a system of structured structures that function as structuring structures: lol wut. It is a sense of how to go in a social space,field. Draw upon habitus to create the world. We reproduce the same structures we exist in.