Cultural Capital - Educational or intellectual assets that propel a personâs social mobility (ex: knowledge of opera/fine art, tableside etiquette). Develops due to a difference in education/wealth/background.
* Can be split into objective, embodied, and institutionalized cultural capital
* Objective: cultural goods, books, works of art (ex: reading War and Peace)
* Embodied: things consciously acquired and passively inherited through socialization. Acquired over time; impressed into a personâs habitus. Language, mannerisms, preferences (ex: etiquitte in Privilege)
* Institutionalized: qualifications, education credentials
Symbolic Violence - non-physical violence occuring due to a difference in power between social groups. Often unconsciously agreed upon by both parties to be ârightâ. May be unconsciously formed
Habitus - How a person perceives/responds to the world due to their habits, skills, and character
Field Theory: how people form social fields (environments where individuals/groups compete, like markets, academy, musical genres, etc) and how they are affected by said fields
* Incumbents: dominant players, want to maintain the current field to maintain dominant position
* Insurgents: want to alter the field so they can have the dominant position