SOC 308C Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Cultural Capital
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Summary: social setting and identity changes the way your class identity affects your college experience. When low income people enter elite settings, it effects their identity with feelings of exclusion but gain cultural capital (colleges want diversification) Method: 30 participants interviewed and picked according to race, age and gender. Theory: bordieu cultural capital shapes class identity (whether or not their parents went to college) Findings: intimidation, inferiority, exclusion, powerlessness: not as excluded in a state college. Elite college worry about self presentation, speech, clothing, can"t afford, hard to connect, hard to imagine future with economic constraints. Changes caused by college experience: assimilated into middle and upper class, new forms of cultural capital, afraid to go home because of the new assimilation, but maintain relationships. State college does not acquire as much cultural capital. Coping (elite: compartmentalized, switching between who they were talking to, blanaced out identities, valuing their class identity, actualized self.
