English 2017 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Pierre Bourdieu, Conspicuous Consumption, Mark Greif

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2017
• Professor: Riley Mc Donald

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Reading popular culture lecture 13 consumption i: communities of consumption. Reminder: conspicuous consumption is the method of signifying social status and financial success through the public display of extravagant purchases (flashy clothing, fancy cars, enormous houses, etc. ) Thee a(cid:396)e sig(cid:374)als to tell those a(cid:396)ou(cid:374)d (cid:455)ou (cid:862)i a(cid:373) (cid:449)ealth(cid:455) a(cid:374)d su(cid:272)(cid:272)essful. (cid:863) i(cid:374) a consumer society conspicuous consumption has cultural meaning. Pierre bourdieu: distinction of taste (cid:862)(cid:862)o(cid:448)e(cid:396) se(cid:448)e(cid:396)al (cid:455)ea(cid:396)s i(cid:374) the (cid:1005)(cid:1013)6(cid:1004)s, bou(cid:396)dieu a(cid:374)d his (cid:396)esea(cid:396)(cid:272)he(cid:396)s su(cid:396)(cid:448)e(cid:455)ed (cid:1005),(cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1004) people of all (cid:272)lasses a(cid:374)d (cid:373)i(cid:374)ed go(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t data o(cid:374) aspe(cid:272)ts of f(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:272)h do(cid:373)esti(cid:272) life. Cyclical system of how taste makes community and community makes taste. The importance of cultural capital (cid:862)like ma(cid:396)(cid:454), bou(cid:396)dieu a(cid:396)gued that (cid:272)apital fo(cid:396)(cid:373)ed the fou(cid:374)datio(cid:374) of so(cid:272)ial life a(cid:374)d di(cid:272)tated o(cid:374)e(cid:859)s positio(cid:374) within the social order. For bourdieu and marx both, the more capital one has, the more powerful a positio(cid:374) o(cid:374)e o(cid:272)(cid:272)upies i(cid:374) so(cid:272)ial life.