Class & Cultural Consumption Lesson

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Which type of capital is this?

1. economic
2. cultural
3. social
4. symbolic

Which type of capital is this?

1. economic
2. cultural
3. social
4. symbolic

Which type of capital is this?

1. economic
2. cultural
3. social
4. symbolic

Which type of capital is this?

1. economic
2. cultural
3. social
4. symbolic

Which type of capital is this?

1. economic
2. cultural
3. social
4. symbolic

Which type of capital is this?

1. economic
2. cultural
3. social
4. symbolic

Which type of capital is this?

1. economic
2. cultural
3. social
4. symbolic

Which type of capital is this?

1. economic
2. cultural
3. social
4. symbolic

This activity is related to lowbrow.

1. True
2. False
3. x
4. x

This activity is related to lowbrow.

1. True
2. False
3. x
4. x

Recap

Recap Bordieu

Criticism

Part Two

Globalization, Social Media and Education

Globalization

Social media & Social class

Facebook, Instagram, twitter, Google+, YouTube, TikTok, Myspace, and so on

NRS (National Readership Survey)

social class

(source: Yates & Lockey, 2018)

Five factors

• Media consumption: music, TV,​YouTube, games​ 
• Information seeking: health, public​ services, leisure​ 
• Political action: petitions, political​
  communication​ 
• Formal transactions: banking,​ government services​ 
• Social use: social media​
  

Source: Yates & Lockey (2018)

Source: Yates & Lockey (2018)

Source: Yates & Lockey (2018)

Educational Inequality

Inequality is present in our society – also in education
.

Unicef published a report with an overview of inequality among children in the 41 wealthiest countries (2016)
.

Income & Education

c

Income & education

The first column shows how far low-achieving children are behind the ‘average’ child
.

The bars on the right show the percentage of children below minimum proficiency
.

Although fewer children are left behind the ‘average’ child, the overall standard of the ‘average’ child is still poor.

Group Division

Conclusions

Bourdieu's Cultural Capital Theory doesn't seem to fit anymore.

It was falsified (part one of lecture) and stretches beyond  factors in one person's control (part two of lecture).
Besides that, lecture of sociology: people consume from all predefined layers of society.

The question: How to define/study leisure consumers/consumption?

A way forward.

-Theory one: cosmopolitan amateur. (new definition/meaning of cultural interpretation)

-Theory two: analysis of meaning of activity.
-Theory three:  Pluralism in research.
-Theory four: Liquid leisure.  Leisure as a way to shape meaning in life, a way to devote. 

Categorization -> Interpretation

(hermeneutics)

Finished!