SOC220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pierre Bourdieu, Cultural Capital, Social Inequality
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Test is in two weeks, in this room, 35% Foucault on power (the not-so-speedy vs wherein your heads do not fall off and you are not obsessed with the time!) >both of these are ways of analyzing, measuring, assessing where people/groups are in the social pecking order (e. g. porter"s vertical mosaic) Structural functionalism (won"t be a lot of this on the test, but a few) >idea of each person having their own function to make society work How globalization requires complex theorizing (e. g. of cdn mine in. Foucault"s ideas of power (bentham"s panopticon; the gaze; disciplinary practices) All the not-so-obvious ways we dominate each other and groups. >most common way people classify people: survey type questions --> Critique: narrow choices then the choices were gathered into broader categories. Distinctions: a social critique of the judgment of taste. Your tatste in clothes/art/etc doesnt mean anything your class determines your taste. Mental, cognitive structure used to deal with the world.
