File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_2003/bourdieu.0305, message 224


Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 09:21:25 -0500
From: George Free <gfree-AT-axxent.ca>
Subject: Re: [BOU:] A gap



I think you could look at this phenomenon in terms of inter-generational struggles within the dominant class. New entrants into the cultural field seek to establish themselves either by following the established routes to success (conservative strategy) or by challenging the rules and seeking to redefine standards that exclude them (revolutionary strategy). Those following the latter strategy appeal to, and make use of, excluded culture as a way of trying to overturn and establish a new hierarchy of cultural values.

If I'm not mistaken, Bourdieu develops this approach to understanding cultural change mainly in his sociology of science.

regards,
George

> Saman Wicks wrote:
> 
> >Firstly thanks to all who participate so contructively on this listserv.
> >Some of my friends and I have been trying to figure out something, using
> >Bourdieu's analytical framework pertaining to a few aspects about certain
> >cultures (mainly found in industrialized nations). Namely how we can
> >theoretically (with or without Bourdieu) explain the uptake of certain
> >"capital formations" of the dominated by the dominating.  Much of Hip-hop
> >culture (music, clothing, bodily hexis, speech, ethics, break-dancing etc)
> >may serve as a recent example or perhaps Tango from the past.  I realize
> >this is a complicated questions since most people are unlikely to be
> >familiar with hte intricacies of Rap Culture.  It should be noted that most
> >rap that was originally taken up by mainstream (white-middle/upper class)
> >America was rap with an "academic"/philosophical bent to it or early
> >versions of hardcore gangsta rap, which caught the eye of conservatives in
> >America, and then spread like wildfire to the rest of America.     Thanks SW

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