distinction

Social Space

• People and the social positions they occupy; to Bourdieu it’s mainly about social class

Symbolic Space

• Embodied charcterstics/materials we associate with those in the social space, not who people are ( EX: clothes, music, ect)

Substantialist

• You focus on the nouns

Relational view

• What marks status can change, changes as people change

Substantialist vs relational

• viewing entities based on inherent qualities (substantialist) vs their relationships with others (relational).

Distinction

• ways individuals use cultural practices and tastes to distinguish themselves from others; a GAP between people that go together with things and other people that go together with things

• A relational property existing only in and through its relation with other properties

Habitus

• Habits that come from early childhood socialization, can be performed

Economic Capital

• economic resources (wealth, income) that influence social position

Cultural Capital

• non-economic resources (education, knowledge) influencing social positions

• Can be institutionalized (education, degree), objectified ( things you own), and embodied ( what you know, manners and taste)

• Can be exchanged, for economic or social capital

Taste for Necessity

• Working-class people have preferences for foods that are for survival and efficiency vs for performance and high social status

Cleft Habitus

• Jumping class and embodying the habits associated with that class