SOC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pierre Bourdieu, Erving Goffman, The Need
28 Feb 2016
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How we behave towards/with others depends on out ability to role- take. Failed communication: our attempts at role-taking may lead us to formulate a definition of the situation that varies from the definition by those with whom we are communicating, when this happens, a failed communication can result. Example: classroom offers numerous possibilities for failed communication. View their class backgrounds as burdens -> not knowing if you fit in. I have no idea what we are talking about . I didn"t learn this in high school : students dealt with class stigma by using strategies such as. Pretending you know > working hard to learn it. Cultural capital / human capital > education. Social capital > networks, people you know: class structure as constituted by 3 axes. 3 the trajectories followed by incumbents: the change of 3 capitals. Example you only needed a ba before to get a job easily, but now a.
