SAC 5

Question 1

Stratification definition

Answer 1

The division of society into vast social layers - strata - between which inequality exists (=hierarchy)

Different strata, different identities (taste)
Persists over generations (reproduction)

Question 2

Social boundaries

Answer 2

“objectified forms of social differences manifested in unequal access to and unequal distribution - of resources (material and non-material) and social opportunities”

Question 3

Symbolic boundaries

Answer 3

“conceptual distinctions made by social actors to categorize objects, people and practices and time and space”

Question 4

Bourdieu on High and Low brow culture

Answer 4

The use of arts and culture in the making and continuation of social inequality
With your taste, you show to which social group you belong (‘draw boundaries’)

Question 5

Three forms of capital (Bourdieu)

Answer 5

Cultural capital (CC): Education, cultural preferences, manners (embodied, objectified, institutionalized)

Economic capital (EC): Money and good

Social capital (SC): resources available through one’s social network

Question 6

Bourdieu’s 3 dimensions on social space

Answer 6

• Capital volume: three classes (dominant class, middle class, dominated class) differ in total volume of capital
• Capital consumption: classes have ‘fractions’

-Trajectory: upwardly mobile, downwardly mobile, stagnation

Question 7

Bourdieu’s 3 class taste

Answer 7

• Legitimate taste: ‘sense of distinction’ (Form over function)
• Middle class taste: pretension and goodwill (take culture too seriously)
• Popular taste: ‘taste of necessity’ (function over form)

Question 8

Habitus definition

Answer 8

Internalized and embodied mindset based on class

Question 9

Bourdieu’s reproduction theory

Answer 9

Reproduction of taste = class
Result: reproduction class position

Question 10

Symbolic violence (Bourideu)

Answer 10

Upper classes have the power to define what ‘bad taste is
Lower classes accept that their preferences are less valuable (role ideology)