GROUPS AND INSTITUTIONS
As group size increases, intensity of relationships decreases, while overall stability
increases
Exclusivity occurs as members limit interactions to within the group
o Cliques form around social characteristics as age, gender, class, race, or
ethnicity
o Social closer- ability of groups to exclude outsiders or "undesirables" from
participating or enjoying resources
In-group and out-group- boundaries
When you identify in a group, there's inevitably people who
don't identify that way
Economic, Cultural, and Social Capital
o Structuralism- idea that there exists an overarching structure within which
culture and other aspects of society must be understood
Structures- economic, cultural, and social capital
Constrains our practice and influence the way we behave and
how we interact with other people
o Pierre Bourdieu- forms of capital or social currency stem from our
membership in different groups
Bourdieu's Types of Capital
o Economic- money and material that can be used to produce goods and
services
Approach to grocery shopping
Keep running tab of cost in your head vs. just
tossing it in the cart
o Cultural- informal, interpersonal skills, habits, manners, linguistic styles,
tastes, and lifestyles
Embodied, objectified, and institutionalized
Do you know how to make something last until you
know more money is coming
Ordering at a restaurant all in French
What kids of clothes are you wearing
Language- essential part- how you speak
Accent, dialogue, slang associated with
particular ethnic group
Way you speak projects cultural capital
Can learn another social class- risk dissociating
yourself from where you came from
o Social- personal connections and networks that enable people to
accomplish goals and extend influence
Influenced by socioeconomic class, gender, race, and
intersection of all three
Example- social networks, gender, and relationship to people's
information about job leads
Who you know
As group size increases, intensity of relationships decreases, while overall stability
increases
Exclusivity occurs as members limit interactions to within the group
o Cliques form around social characteristics as age, gender, class, race, or
ethnicity
o Social closer- ability of groups to exclude outsiders or "undesirables" from
participating or enjoying resources
In-group and out-group- boundaries
When you identify in a group, there's inevitably people who
don't identify that way
Economic, Cultural, and Social Capital
o Structuralism- idea that there exists an overarching structure within which
culture and other aspects of society must be understood
Structures- economic, cultural, and social capital
Constrains our practice and influence the way we behave and
how we interact with other people
o Pierre Bourdieu- forms of capital or social currency stem from our
membership in different groups
Bourdieu's Types of Capital
o Economic- money and material that can be used to produce goods and
services
Approach to grocery shopping
Keep running tab of cost in your head vs. just
tossing it in the cart
o Cultural- informal, interpersonal skills, habits, manners, linguistic styles,
tastes, and lifestyles
Embodied, objectified, and institutionalized
Do you know how to make something last until you
know more money is coming
Ordering at a restaurant all in French
What kids of clothes are you wearing
Language- essential part- how you speak
Accent, dialogue, slang associated with
particular ethnic group
Way you speak projects cultural capital
Can learn another social class- risk dissociating
yourself from where you came from
o Social- personal connections and networks that enable people to
accomplish goals and extend influence
Influenced by socioeconomic class, gender, race, and
intersection of all three
Example- social networks, gender, and relationship to people's
information about job leads
Who you know
