Week 4 Flashcards
(8 cards)
1
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Cultural capital
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Non-financial social assets (knowledge, skills, behaviors) that influence social mobility.
2
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Habitus
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- Deeply ingrained habits, dispositions, and ways of thinking shaped by one’s social background.
- Shapes how individuals acquire and use cultural capital.
- Influences tastes, behaviors, and social interactions.
3
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Reproduction and social inequality
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- Cultural capital and habitus are passed down in families, reinforcing social class structures.
- Schools and institutions favor the cultural capital of dominant social groups.
4
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Substantialism
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- Substances of various kinds (things, essences, beings) constitute the fundamental units of all inquiry.
- Corresponds closely to grammatical patterns found in western languages.
- Self action:
- Society/individuals as starting points
- Rational actor theory
- Norm following behavior
- Holistic approaches and structuralisms
- Interaction: Billiard balls
- Variable-centered research:
- Critique: It detaches elements (substances with variable attributes) from their contexts, analyzing them in a vacuum.
5
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Relationism
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- Fundamentally opposed to substantialism and its two types.
- Transaction:
- Terms/units involved in a transaction derive their meaning, significance and identity from the changing functional roles they play within the transaction.
- The roles they play within the transaction are seen as dynamic and are the primary units of analysis.
- Reject the notion that one can posit discrete, pre-given units such as the individual or society as ultimate starting points of sociological analysis (as in the self-actional perspective).
- Individuals are inseparable from the transactional contexts within which they are embedded.
6
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Self-action
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It conceives of things as acting under their own powers, independently of all other substances.
7
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Inter-action
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Things as balanced against things in causal interconnection, where entities no longer generate their own action, but rather, the relevant action takes place among the entities itself.
8
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Trans-action
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Argues that social entities and their actions are constituted by dynamic, ever-changing relationships rather than existing as separate, pre-formed units.