SOC281H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Working Class Culture, Cultural Capital, Symbolic Capital
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Soc281 study notes: two of your required readings (brubaker and weber) discuss class and status groups. Compare and contrast to weber"s discussion of class and status groups. See also mcmullin, pages 25 26, and relevant lecture materials on classes or occupations as status groups. Bourdieu draws much of his inspiration for his theories on class and status groups from the works of durkheim and marx but he owes the majority of his theories to that the works of marx. Weber sees a person"s class as their ability to use their resources to do well on the open market. In short, for weber, class categorizes people into groups with similar amounts of resources and so they have the same life chances. This is a theory of the relation of stratification by status to stratification by class. From weber"s notions of charisma and legitimacy, bourdieu develops a systematic theory of symbolic power and its relations to economic and political power.