Essays on Habitus

Introduction

The human resource department is considered responsible for setting the cultural tone of a company. They issue policies and raise awareness of the current workplace legislation and educate employees on the right way to discharge their duties. HR is also responsible for attracting and retaining high-quality professionals. Obviously, the workplace will lose its savor without the important role of the HR department. In today’s workplace, soft capitalism has been effectively wielded by the organization as an invaluable human resource management tool. Soft capitalism as opposed to hard capitalism is employee centric and has a strong relationship with emotional ...

Bourdieu’s Concepts of Capital and Habitus and Contemporary Class Differences

Introduction Since 1986 when Bourdieu published his book with the concepts of cultural capital and habitus, many social changes have happened, primarily driven by changes in technology and new ways of interactions. For instance, compared to thirty years ago, it is now easier to break the glass ceiling of social stratification because there is a bigger social spread. Many rich people interact with people from humble backgrounds on the internet, and, since the class is not the first thing that comes up when these relations start, people from higher classes discover that they are interacting with people from the ...

INEQUALITY IN BRITAIN

Introduction Social stratification is about the different social classes and relative positions of social groups within a given country or community. In most societies, it has to do with the level of wealth each social category yields, but there are several concepts and theories that relates to it. This includes level of education, norms, social activities and preferences as well as the expectations society places on certain people within each class which leads to taste and the formation of identities. As a result of this, there is the famous “Top 1%”, the upper class, the upper-middle, the middle class, ...

Introduction

The paper is a case study that focuses on subculture theories. As such, the paper will take an application approach where the theory is explored in the context of Pachuco subculture. The subculture relates to Mexican-American gang which developed in the 1930s (Sanchez, n.d.). The subculture was characterized by delinquent behavior thus forming a suitable case to apply the subculture theories.

Understanding the Emergence of Pachuco Subculture

Bourdieu argues that there are four forms of capital namely social, economic, and cultural and symbolic. To understand the emergence of the subculture, first, the social form of capital is applied. According to Bourdieu, social capital refers to ...

Tourists Relationship with Food and Drinks

Introduction According to Dale (2006, p.2), tourism involves activities of people travelling to take vacationsin places that are outside their typical environments. These vacations do not exceed one consecutive year. Tourism is driven by several factors such as leisure, business, or any other purpose (Dale, 2006 p.2). The definition indicates that tourists move away from their usual homes to a destination where food, drinks, and culture are different.Food and culture are strongly linked. Food choices reflect the identity of the eater (Hurh and Kim, 1998 p.72). Human beings tend to adhere to taking familiar foods and drinks because of ...

Introduction

This change proposed plan is a formal initiative to implement changes in Australia to address problems with inequality. Given that this proposed plan will center on the concept of inequality, the researcher will be considering the types of inequality that are present in Australia, which include gender, social, and income inequality. The aim of this proposed plan for change is to take into account the approaches where the people can make a difference and evaluate the feasibility of the change proposal plan in the recent socio-political context. The change proposal plan for the inequality in Australia should specify the ...

The Field Of Struggle for State Power to Understand Of Ethnic Group in the Southeast Turkey

The Kurdish community is a minority group living in Turkey. They are believed to be the largest ethnic group that are not recognized by any state. Because of this reason, they have been involved in a continuous struggle with the government of Turkey. They have been fighting for the right to be recognized and appreciated by the Turkish government (Kaya, 2011, p.15). This paper will give an insight look into the causes behind the struggle in relation to Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of the field.

Pierre Bourdieu was a sociologist, philosopher, and anthropologist from France. He was born on August 1930 and ...

It is fair to say that many of the citizens throughout the world, especially the developed nations, live as if there is an endless amount of natural resources to keep providing the world with everything we want. There is a very big desire for most people to want to buy more, have more, and do more. This happens even if the individual is unable to afford certain items; they still find a way to purchase what they want for the status quo part of it. Even if the citizens of planet Earth had the money to keep buying more new items, ...

Abstract

This paper presents theory and practice of French sociology in practice after Pierre Bourdieu and the impacts that his work had to sociologist and the society at large, as a preparation for a journal article. It had started by analyzing the life of Bourdieu when young who hardly known in the society who advocated for purely scientific view of sociology and was against sociologically oriented journalism developed by his mentor Raymond Aron. Bourdieu was not known unlike other intellectuals in society of the time. However, him together with his co-writer Jean-Claude Passeron gained instant fame after they wrote two provocative books ...

Sociologists have proposed various theories that explain the social organization and the socialization of the people in the community. These concepts attempt to explain people’s habits and situation under which they develop their behaviors and lifestyles. Understanding the concepts and arguments proposed by these theories is essential to apply them accordingly in addressing social dilemmas in the community. The paper reviews two social concepts— the Habitus and Rationalization by discussing each model, comparing and contrasting them while critiquing the arguments that they make.

Rationalization

Rationalization is a major sociological concept that seeks to explain why different people behave differently within ...

Bourdieu argues in his framework for understanding taste and hierarchy that judgments of taste are influenced by one’s social position. He puts forward his argument by combining social theory and information gathered from quantitative surveys, interviews and photos. He attempts to bring together difficulties like how one can understand the subject within structures that are objective. Bourdieu attempted to reconcile the impact of external social structures and subjective experience of a person. According to Bourdieu, further states that habitus is not a result of either free will and is not determined by structures. It is created by a form of ...

The notion of human action has undoubtedly been one of the major centres of investigation and debate within the sociological arena, especially in the latter part of the 20th century. Among the ‘unification of theories and theorists’ whom are known to have presented their accounts and explanations on human agency, lies Pierre Bourdieu and his theory The Habitus theorem: cognitive structures through which people deal with the social world. In this theorem, Bourdieu’s to explain the culmination of our status or position in the social structure that an individual is part of as well as knowledge, mannerism, schemes ...

One of the major concerns in sociology is human behavior. There are several debates on what influences human behavior. One of the controversies in determining human behavior is the structure and agency controversy. Supporters of the structure as the main influence in human behavior argue that human behavior is by patterns and systems that have been developed in a society. These patterns not only influence human behavior but also limit human actions. Supporters of agency as the main influence of human behavior argue that human behavior happens as a choice of a person. Every person has the freedom to choose what to ...

Notion of habitus

I am 34 years of age who has served 6 years in the coast guard. I still go to college but on a part time basis. My life and that of a normal college student are different in a number of ways. Firstly, time is of matter. I am always busy since I have to cater for other things that I do outside school as an adult hence I have no free time. The normal college student is usually free and idle. They do not have any responsibilities to deal with unlike me. I have to attend school for about 4 ...

Abstract

Social inequality is simply how different categories of individuals are prescribed by the society. The society uses basic characteristics such as gender, sex, education, and ethnicity among other factors in order to categorize an individual. The social inequalities determine the access to limited goods such as market labor force, education, health care facilities, and other forms of participation in the society. Different forms of social inequalities are constructs of geographical distribution, and status within the country, however, cultural aspects, mostly integrated with cultural identities, of society are perceived to be the major contributor of social inequality. Discourses have, therefore, ...

Part 1

Bourdieu in the sociological theory says that we should think of the society as being organized or stratified as a 3-D space (Dillion, 2009). These dimensions include volumes of capital, size of capita and changes in properties of these components defined by time. Every society is characterized by different classes and their subcomponents. These classes are arranged depending on their volume of different capitals; economic, social, and cultural capital. The hierarchical distribution of these classes is determined by differences in ownership of capitals (Dillion, 2009). Bourdieu views linguistic capital as key component of ...

Part Four – Anthropology.

1. Man’s Creation. a. Preliminary Considerations. i. The fundamental difference between humans and angels, as Shedd states, is that “God created man male and female.” This implies that man is “incomplete if in isolation from one another.” However, angels are “sexless” which means that although they have been created with “reasonable and immortal souls” like man, they are not man or woman and are therefore, infinitely more complete than man. 1. This means that we must live at one with our alter-gender counterparts and consider each other equally as important. We are only whole humans ...