SOC395H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 7: Social Stratification, Mass Media, Speed Dating
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In addiion to economic, cultural and social capital, we have a fourth asset: eroic capital: eroic capital is just as important as the other 3. Helps us analyse sexuality and sexual relaionships. 501) eroic capital is thus a combinaion of aestheic, visual, physical, social, and sexual atraciveness to other members of your society, and especially to members of the opposite sex, in all social contexts. Requires some basic level of talent & ability but can be trained, developed, and learnt: women have a been for a long ime developing and exploiing it. Eroic capital overlooked as a 4th asset because of patriarchal bias: women has more eroic capital men deny it exits or has value so women can"t exploit their advantage in it. Men make it seem like eroic capital is worthless; belitling those who put eforts to increasing. Disdain and contempt heaped on female sex workers. Many diferent variaions in what consitutes beauty.
