SOC 202 Lecture 4: SOC 202 Habitus and Popular Social Marketplaces lecture 4
15 Mar 2017
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Consumption: a particular form of human interaction and kind of social relationship. Commodities: objects and services produced for consumption and exchange by someone other than their producers. Consumption produces cultural meanings: consumption as a means of producing and reinforcing social and cultural distinctions and differences, connections between consumption and individual identity and agency, political meaning of contemporary forms of consumption. Consumption as distinction: the idea that we consume freely is an illusion: our tastes are developed and are refined within social context, one of the primary social meanings of consumption is social distinction and differentiation. The (cid:272)olle(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of sy(cid:373)(cid:271)oli(cid:272) ele(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts su(cid:272)h as skill, tastes, posture, (cid:272)lothi(cid:374)g, mannerisms, mater belongings. It is the one that acquires through being part of a particular social class. There are 3 types of cultural capital: embodied: accent or dialect table manners, objectified: sports car or record collection, institutionalized: credentials and degrees.
