SOC263H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cultural Capital, False Consciousness, Thorstein Veblen
Document Summary
Chapter on status and prestige: passed on and acquired in different ways. Monopolize the markers to get to high levels: social closure. The higher the level of income more education to get that income. Occupational prestige go beyond income (in a school senior janitor makes more money than a new teacher) but teachers have a higher occupational prestige. There isn"t correlation between the occupational prestige and level of income. Art, music take on, internalize the cultural dispositions of our class. Families socialize children in many ways, expected to class positions. Parental aspirations: upper class plays a higher value on happiness, self-fulfillment little regard to honesty, lower class values honesty over happiness. Habitus*: habit of speech, work, lifestyle, interests, where an individual feels at home, his or her own space. Data collected 1200 respondents from paris and outside paris. Boudier: close relationship between cultural practices and educational origins. People learn to consume culture based on class positions.
