Soc 185F Final
Compare the habitus you brought in when you first started at UCSB to the
position in the field you are in now. Then, predict how your present position,
new habitus, and new capital you attained will affect your future endeavors. -
correct answer ✔-greater taste for knowledge, sushi, and alcohol, politics
-before had habitus for "nor-cal" tastes: Ike's sandwich shop, Dutch Bro's
coffee
-now can appreciate a good feminist debate, a ted talk, a class where the
teacher is available and remembers your name (something I hated in high
school)
-I will now go on to graduate school with a new awareness for the world
-appreciation for global issues-makes me want to join the Peace Corps
-in dating world: I used to like "bad boys," funny guys who didn't focus on their
studies, and had motorcycles and tattoos, I will now seek a partner valuing
them for their intellect and how well their ideas about the world line up with
mine
-Isla Vista taste: a hangering for freebirds and SouthCoast deli's eggplant
sammie and the co-ops vegan macncheese,
an Isla Vistian sense of clothing that includes flowy shirts, parachate pants
and lots of patterns. A tattoo that has been described as "so santa barbara,"
an appreciation for being surrounded by laid back individuals, a good night of
partying, "beach music"
Compare and contrast how a student at UCSB with a dominated (bottom
class) (Distinction Bourdieu 1984) habitus in social space, with a low volume
and composition of cultural, economic, social and symbolic capital influence
his/her behavior in the social field at bar with the behavior of an individual with
a dominant habitus (top class) in social space, with a high volume and
composition of all four capitals in this same setting at a bar in this social field?
- correct answer ✔-bottom class/dominated: less money, has to work hard
for grades, spends time at a job to fund schoolwork, no car, shops at thrift
stores
, -top class/dominant: lots of parties, social capital, money, connections with
professors, study aids (eg. frat/sorority test bank), a car, the best clothes, has
tastes for nice clothes, cars, orgs, etc.
-in a bar--a bottom class individual might come to relax, buy the least
expensive drink (a beer) that might get them the most for their money, remain
fairly quiet
a dominant class individual might come wearing a fancier type of clothing, lots
of friends, fancy dranks
Describe the meaning of the following quote, and how it applies to your
research in this class:
"The summum of the art, in the social sciences, is, in my eyes, to be capable
of engaging very high "theoretical" stakes by means of very precise and often
apparently very mundane, if not derisory, empirical objects." - correct answer
✔-substantialism vs. relationalism--need to see sociology as not just simple
surface characteristics but get at a deeper level of how so many things relate
to one another (eg. non-euclidian geometry, Lewin's field theory and
hodological space)
-talking about how you should go about doing social science
-need that 1st epistemological break--need to see things as abstract
-Bourdieu as homo academicus--need to get out of common sense notions
and be more empirical
-treating sociology as you would any other science
-yet, also need to make that 2nd epistemological break and bring things back
to reality, not keep them too abstract
-need statistical procedures rather than subjective wisdom to make sense of
sociology and really prove things true
-need to also be reflexive and take yourself out of it=be more objective and
less subjective, kn of own tendencies
