Answer to Question #241551 in Sociology for barbie

Question

explain the following words, using examples from the south african context.

1. cultural capital

2. Habitus

Answer 1

1.Cultural capital, also from Bourdieu, includes non-economic resources that enable social mobility. Examples of cultural capital would include knowledge, skills, and education. Both concepts remind us that social networks and culture have value. Bourdieu discussed other forms of capital, including economic and symbolic.

2.Habitus is Habitus is the way society becomes deposited in persons in the form of lasting dispositions, or trained capacities and structured propensities to think, feel and act in determinant ways, which then guide them.