Academic Communication for Health and Social Care Bernhard Wagner bwagnermmuacuk Structure Bourdieus forms of capital Exercise Capitals and difference Bourdieus habitus concept ID: 933845
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Class and Social InequalityAcademic Communication for Health and Social Care
Bernhard Wagner – b.wagner@mmu.ac.uk
Slide2Structure Bourdieu’s forms of capitalExerciseCapitals and differenceBourdieu’s habitus concept
Slide3Bourdieu’s forms of capitalThree distinguishable forms of capital:Economic capitalSocial capitalCultural capitalAll capital needs to be validated:Symbolic capital
Slide4Economic capitalIncome and all material possessionsResources distributed in a very unequal way LINKPower and wealth linked LINKHowever, also economic capital needs to be validated
Slide5Social capitalConnections, personal relationsPosition in the social hierarchy partly determined by who you know
Example: internships
Slide6Cultural capital
All forms of knowledge
Cultural capital in material form: books, works of art etc.
Cultural capital in institutionalised form: degrees etc.
Cultural capital as distinguished taste
Different worth of cultural products
Cultural consumption to create distinctions /
difference
Validation completely arbitrary!
Slide7ExerciseMake a list of forms of (cultural) consumption and put them in hierarchical order!Anything from TV and popular music to fashion, food and the arts
Slide8ExerciseWhy? What is the basis for this categorisation?Do these distinctions matter nowadays?Arbitrariness, but taken-for-grantedness of hierarchieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V2VPyRCW_MClass?
Slide9‘If there is any terrorism, it is the verdicts which, in the name of taste, condemn to ridicule, indignity, shame, silence (…), men and women who simply fall short, in the eyes of their judges, of the right way of being and doing.’(Pierre Bourdieu, 1984:511)
Slide10Capitals and differenceInequalities reproduce themselvesPlenty of empirical evidenceBourdieu aims to explain this process and analyse how economic inequalities translate into social onesProcess of reproduction opaqueTaken-for-grantedness:Social order appears as ‘natural order of things’Cultural classifications not challenged
Idea of meritocracy
Slide11Habitus
Slide12HabitusHabitus aims to explain how social structures become internalised, how they shape peopleSocial conditions – (mental) dispositionsInequality perceived as the natural order of thingsHabitus consists of knowledge, attitudes, values and practicePartly unconsciousNothing natural or essential about the habitus!
Slide13Habitus Habitus and social conditions linked in a reciprocal waySocio-cultural conditions and context of production of social norms not evident (but possible to analyse nonetheless)Can we speak of a class habitus?