SMC219Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Social Contract, Doxa, Symbolic Power
26 Jan 2017
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5 t/f (term pro(cid:448)ide theorist"s (cid:374)a(cid:373)e), (cid:1005)(cid:1004) fill-in-the-blank, 4 short answer (2/2marks, 2/3 marks, can be written in point-form: history + theorists. Bourdieu, like marx, believed in objective relations (life is based on material things: marx believed in labour, bourdieu believed in symbolic capital (fame, wealth, status, political power, prestige, education) Habitus: actions, habits we do, based on what we think. Doxa: principles we assume to be true. Symbolic capital is used to impose itself on other people in any given field, resulting in symbolic violence: not in their best interest. These things are constantly working back and forth: our doxa is always subject to change and influence, which is dangerous. Reflexivity: awareness; how we escape symbolic violence: conscious that are truths are relative, some people have disproportionate amounts of symbolic capita, etc. We"re all refle(cid:454)i(cid:448)e at so(cid:373)e le(cid:448)el, (cid:271)ut also (cid:448)i(cid:272)ti(cid:373)s of s(cid:455)(cid:373)(cid:271)oli(cid:272) (cid:448)iole(cid:374)(cid:272)e. Beneath everything, there is a transcendental truth that we can rely on.
