SOSA 1050Y Lecture 8: Social Ineqality...and Agency 2

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 1050Y
• Professor: Laura Eramian

Document Summary

Capital: an asset (such as money or other nancial resources) which brings power in society (generally economic) Future can bring power in the same way that money can. This concept can from a french sociologist, pierre bourdieu. Economic resources are not the only source of status or dignity/respect. Capital is a metaphor or analogy for this cultural capital: non-economic resources and assets that give people status (rank), the cultural resources that give status/respect. Examples are: language, the way we speak, appearance, how we dress and hold ourselves, knowing buzz words or popular topics (wine/food, education, similar views. Overall can be the credentials, social skills and know how. These are things that allow you to succeed. The majority of these are tacit knowledge. If we do not have these, then there is a negative effect, causing a treatment with a lack of respect. In east harlem, they did not have the cultural capital needed in legal system.