SOC461 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Wine, Social Capital, Cultural Capital
13 Dec 2016
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Soc 461 – Oct 13, 2016 : Bordieu
Manhattan
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capability.
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• Judgements of taste based on social combat, in a sense.
1.Showing your class
• Marx talks about means of production and that kind of capital.
• Faber talks about social capital, being able to interact with different types of art.
1a. The aesthetic judgement of taste
Taste> The ability to make objective judgements about art, beyond your own personal preference, and
to diffeetiate good ad ad at.
• To ehiit taste ad disiiatio eas ou a idetif h oe ojet is ette tha
another. (You might be able to say why this painting by Raphael is better than that one he also
made.)
• Boudieu taitl itiizes Kats lai aout judgets of taste:
o The ust e disiteested….
1b. The varieties of aesthetic attitudes.
• Art galleries: Open to anyone:cheaper, We walk reverently around the gallery standing
uncomfortably to take in the work, appreciate the forms of the picture.
• Opera: Expensive, but open to those who can pay. Sit in silence to observe performance: but
socialize in interval or look at patrons in boxes, Appreciate the composition and staging.
• Fine wine: Expensive; assumes knowledge of wines. Consumed at home, but with a ritual of
opening, pouring, smelling, sipping, and commenting. Appreciate the subtle flavours of the
wine.
• Twentieth century theories of the aestheti attitude da fo Kats aout of disiteest
assume that there is one way of engaging with art to appreciate it aesthetically.
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all accounts described hee hae soethig of the aestheti attitude aout the.
• Hae to deostate that ou ko the ultue.
1c. Intra-class conflict
>Class: Social groups defined by ownership of capital
>Class fractions: Sub-groups within a class, with varying degrees of power within it.
• Dominant elites: Those in the top stratum of society, participating in institutions with power at
center.
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