SOC101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pierre Bourdieu, Cultural Capital, Panel Data
7 Nov 2016
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Rc essay 8: beauty is only skin deep. How being physically attractive benefit individuals socially. We constantly say that appearances do not matter but do the opposite. Cultural inconsistency : a situation in which actual behaviours contradict cultural goals; an imbalance between ideal and real culture. Attractive individuals are better liked and more valued (tall, slim, beautiful/handsome) Workplace: more likely to be hired; promotion. Still we tend to find the most attractive person we could get. Children stories: associate beauty with goodness and ugly with evil. Self-fulfilling prophecy : a phenomenon whereby that we believe to be true, in some sense, becomes true for us. Some suggest that this is race specific. Cultural capital : attributes, knowledge, or ways of thinking that can be converted or used for economic advantages. In conjunction with social status (pierre bourdieu) Social status : position with reference to characteristics such as age, education, gender, income, race, religion. Fitting into appearance norms to find identity.
