The American Dream/Capital/Class

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Dual Welfare system

Distinction between classes who receive welfare, humiliation with welfare for the poor; not seen as welfare for the rich

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Tenets of the American Dream

  1. everyone can participate equally

  2. Everyone can anticipate some success

  3. Success in under one‘s own control

  4. Failure implies sin

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Places affected by classism

Education, Jobs, Mothering, Individualism,

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Forms of capital

Economic, cultural, social

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Economic capital

Directly convertable into money

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Cultural capital

Knowledge, can be transformed to economic capital

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Forms of cultural capital

Embodied: long-lasting disposition of mind and body (education)

Objectified: cultural goods

Institutionalised: educational qualifications

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Social capital

Social connections