SOC281H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter all: Pierre Bourdieu, Symbolic Capital, Cultural Capital
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Bourdieu"s analysis of class and culture errs in neglecting two important aspects of social structure: social networks and class relations at work. He expects high- status culture to be useful in class because it is correlated with class, but culture used at work includes both genres related to class (used in domination) and genres unrelated to class (used in coordination). High-status culture is correlated with class but excluded, not used, in the competitive private sector. The most widely useful cultural resource is cultural variety, and social network variety is a better source of cultural variety than is class itself. Pn source of cultural resources, more powerful source than class. Wr fundamental site of class processes in the most direct form. Culture as a class signal which helps maintain class domination (like economic) Cultural capital is smallest in volume for the culture typical at the bottom of the class structure and greatest in volume for the culture typical of elites .