SOCI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Pierre Bourdieu, Cultural Capital, Subculture

• School: UBC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 102
• Professor: Catherine Corrigall- Brown

Document Summary

Sociological significance of langue is that it frees us from the present by giving us the capacity to share understandings about the past and to develop common perceptions about the future. Consequently, as in the case of a picnic, each individual is able to perform a small part of a larger activity, aware that others are carrying out related parts. A series of separate activities becomes united into a larger whole. Values: their ideas of what is desirable in life. Norms: describe the expectations or rules of behaviour, that develop out of a group"s values. Sanctions: to refer to positive or negative reactions to the ways people follow norms. Positive sanction: expression of approval given for following a norm. Negative sanction: denotes disapproval for breaking a norm. Mores: essential to our core values, and we insist on conformity. One group"s mores can be another group"s folkways.