explain bordieu

Question 1

Durkheim and bordieu

Answer 1

Bourdieu
- His work on habitus and the forms of capital are forms of critiquing Durkheim’s idea of inheritance
- He is struggling to deal with the problem of agency and structure
- He is on the structure side – everything that he talks about seems to indicate that we are reactors
within the social process

Question 2

what is habitus

Answer 2

1) Economic Capital
2) Cultural Capital
3. symbolic capital

Question 3

explain cultural capital

Answer 3

formed in our minds at the age of 5
- Distinguishing themselves from others
- Involved in the reproduction of social class
- Cultural capital is fundamentally important in the nature of social stratification
- Not just money but through the tastes we have
- We enter into various fields and compete with one another
Cultural capital -> social capital = opportunities for people ->Symbolic Capital
*Social Class reproduction
- Doesn’t care about the individual being successful but the overall product of the social world
- Getting rid of inheritance doesn’t change anything

Question 4

explain symbolic capital

Answer 4

Characteristics that held within the individual
- People who are thoughtful, brilliant and impressive
- People like this have an advantage in the contests going on
- Person who is more popular – example
- All it really is, is disguised cultural, economic and social capital denied as capital (camouflage  it’s
a package)
- If you have symbolic capital you have symbolic power**

Question 5

explain symbolic power

Answer 5

Symbolic Capital + Symbolic Power = (capable of) Symbolic Violence
- An act of symbolic violence is any verbal act that leads to the misrecognition of reality or/and
conceals the unequal distribution of power in the social world
- Implicit acts of symbolic violence suck in the listener and the speaker
- The person who commits the act doesn’t even see it or understand it (both duped)