Pierre Bourdieu

I found it intriguing in chapter four that many historians believe that race has not always been a construct of society (Allen 70). That racial awareness was introduced when the Europeans found the Indians and thought they were inferior because of their language, skin, and technology (70). Personally, I have always thought racism had been around since the time man began living on earth, but the historian’s theory makes sense as many people could not travel the world, and therefore not get to…

“A Rose for Emily” In the short story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner the main character Emily Grierson is depicted as a person of southern tradition. Throughout the story the life and mental state of Miss Emily is shown through gruesome and ironic events. Her lover a Yankee, Homer Barron is a dividing figure in the social class structure of the south. In “A Rose for Emily” William Faulkner displays the south and its unwillingness to change. Throughout “A Rose for Emily” there are many…

The history of education is something that can be explain in many ways and have many reasonings but still address the same point. Authors John Rury and David Labaree are both making arguments about the history of education, but are using different language to make their points. They both have a theory about what the three main goals for American education were, but use different terms and ideas to make their argument. John Rury claims that the three main goals of American education is social…

Frequently people living in the United States choose to believe that we are no longer a state that has social classes among us. When the few social classes are recognized, people regularly oversee the inequalities that go along with them. Nonetheless, social class has generally been and remains to be a main judge for a number of social inequalities. These inequalities are related to work, education, and health care they receive. Even though many enhancements have been made regarding social…

Dancehall Queen, a film that follows the life of a woman named Marcia, tells the story of how she achieves upper mobility from a street vendor to defeating the reigning dancehall queen. Many aspects of this film pertained to the lectures and readings we discussed in class. In my opinion, the movie does a great job of covering all the concepts we covered in class that relate to the British Caribbean lifestyle which consist of; Beauty as a cultural construct for upper mobility, popular culture,…

Persepolis is the picturesque diary of Marjane Satrapi, author of this book highlighting the details in the life of an Iranian. In the beginning of her story, a revolution is happening as the Iranians overthrow the emperor, however a war breaks out between Iraq and Iran following these events. In Iran, social differences between men, women and children appear to be affected by a war that was going on during Marji’s childhood. During this time, many people died so her parents force her to leave…

Tommy Pham 10/23/16 Summary of The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City In The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City by Loïc Wacquant and William Wilson, the two authors explore an “interrelated set of phenomena” that relates to social-structural and the issue of hyperghettoization due to the dramatic growth in joblessness and economic exclusion associated with the spatial and industrial restructuring of capitalism. The article is divided into subsections that…

Award-winning author and feminist Ursula K. Le Guin delivered a rhetorically complex speech to the Mills College graduating class of 1983, comprised almost entirely of women. Her speech came at a challenging time for women, as second-wave feminism began to dissolve into a myriad of disagreeing factions. The title of the speech, the “Left-Handed Commencement Address,” is a reference to her book The Left Hand of Darkness, which follows an androgynous race of space aliens. This foreshadows the…

Bourdieu (1986) states that each career field appreciates specific sorts of capital. A career capital is defined by different supporting modes that an individual acquires and is able to utilize to pursue success in their career. In order to obtain a career capital, the individual needs to go through a process of screening the capitals within the field of interest, and investing these capitals into work-related activities (Iellatchitch, Wolfgang, & Meyer, 2003). To this regard Bourdieu (1986)…

Confucius Civil Service Exam Confucius was an important government official in ancient china who developed a new moral code based on respect, honesty, education, kindness and strong family bonds. One of his theories was that “Women and servants are most difficult to nurture. If one is close to them, they lose their reserve, while if one is distant, they feel resentful.” This can help our understanding of ancient China and of Confucius’ teachings. Confucius puts women and servants in the same…