GGR208H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Symbolic Power, Human Capital, Cultural Capital

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9 Jan 2013
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Lives in time and place effects of contextual change, caused by particular historical events on individual life trajectories. Substantive birth cohort ideas captured by lives in time and place". It represents generation, gender, ethnicity, race, and class. Timing of lives relates to social time, the timing of significant transitions, historical time, and duration and sequence of life events. Generation: the subjectively meaning cohort into which one is born. This concept is similar to the lives in time and place" concept in elder"s life-course perspective but reflects manheim"s ideas involving the sociological relevance of being born at a particular historical time in a given society . Habitus: a relatively stable set of social attitudes, lifestyles, values, beliefs, dispositions, and expectations that social actors hold, which reflect their social circumstances (such as racialization, class, gender, sexuality, abilities, etc. ). A person represents the embodiment of these social structures.