SOCI 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter Lamont: France Culture, Cultural Capital, Impression Management
19 Dec 2018
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When cultural standards such as intelligence, refinement, curiosity, and aesthetic sophistication are the decisive yardsticks they use in their everyday assessment of self and others. Issues and approaches defines valued cultural styles: study explores the cultural categories through which the upper-middle class. Based on 160 semi-directed interviews (4 groups of 40) conducted with a random sample of white male professionals, managers, and businessmen living in america or france. White males b/c they hold power and are often gatekeepers. Semi-directed interviews b/c they let interviewees themselves describe their standards of evaluation and lead the researcher toward the most appropriate analytical categories: also more nuanced and may get more at implicit criteria of exclusion. Also 15 interviews with female professionals, managers, and businesswomen in ny. Distance and closeness to both u. s. and france culture. Allows to ask for clarifications more naturally (ex. what does.
