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Family and Social Structures
Family and Social Structures
Abstract Submissions Closed
Thursday, 25 February 2021: 14:15-15:45
Location:
RC41 Sociology of Population (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
As standards of living go up, mortality declines. However, social stratification, the location of individuals in a graduated social space, is multi-dimensional and we cannot (or at least, should not) simply project it onto one single dimension of hierarchy. One solution, in the form of an overarching logic, has been provided by Bourdieu (1986), based on a generalisation of the Marxist concept of Capital: cumulated work which has taken on a substantive form and which enables whoever controls it to expropriate social energy, human work, either their own or that of someone else. Bourdieu identified three types of capital: Economic capital; Cultural capital and Social capital. This session will focus on ways of measuring these three forms of Capital and analysing their effect, which may differ from one social situation to another, on levels of mortality in the population.
Bourdieu, P. (1986) The forms of capital. In J. Richardson (Ed.) Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education (New York, Greenwood), 241-258. https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/bourdieu-forms-capital.htm
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