reflect on your own social class standing and how you communicate class signals
reflect on your own social class standing and how you communicate class signals through cultural and material capital.
Watching the video and thinking about how groups exhibit their social class will help you respond to the following assignment on Bourdieu’s theoretical work.
Video Link:https://archive.org/details/SocialCl1957
For this assignment
Analyze one category of consumer products as an instance of objectified cultural capital and describe what it is meant to reflect about their owner’s social position.
Respond to the following question: Do you think something as seemingly simple as a painting or piece of furniture helps reproduce class inequalities, as Bourdieu argues? Explain why or why not.
Describe what social class you believe you belong to and how you exhibit it to others through your objectified cultural capital.
Finally, the video on social class presented that a member of the middle class can be accepted to a higher social class based on his profession and wealth, but in his home town amongst family and friends he will always be seen as the class he was born in to.
Do you agree that this is still true in society today? Explain why or why not.