Week 4 Flashcards

(8 cards)

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Cultural capital

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Non-financial social assets (knowledge, skills, behaviors) that influence social mobility.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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