SOC202H5 Lecture Notes - Signify, Blackboard, Pierre Bourdieu
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Discussion of assignment #2 and issues surrounding copyright. 757-769 is the focus of the brubaker reading. A structuralist position would argue that these collective concepts like capitalism refer to independent emergent realities and they take the form of structure that exert influence on our everyday lives. Agency or agentic perspective would hold that only flesh and blood individuals are real and have the capacity to act. Wanted to move past the structure/agency debate. His solution was that both structure and agency matter. Key concepts: inequality can get reproduced through cultural capital, habitus is the mechanisms through which capital operates. Habitus: the system of internalized dispositions that mediates between social structures and practical activity. Disposition refers to a tendency to act in a certain way. Habitus is the sum of all these dispositions or tendencies to act in a certain way that we all possess; influenced by our social standings/structures.
