Session 4 - Veblen and Bourdieu

Question 1

What are the key points of Veblen?

Answer 1

• Social status as relational criterion of self-worth
• Workmanship vs. predation, emulation
• Leisure class, conspicuous consumption, conspicuous leisure
• Business evils vs. technocracy

Question 2

What are the key points of Bourdieu?

Answer 2

• Concept of habitus
• four types of capital
• Concept of field
• Symbolic violence
• Key role of culture in the reproduction of social inequalities