Differences in Social Class and How Individuals Distinguish Themselves

Bourdieu Arguments
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How do differences in social class impact how individuals distinguish themselves in everyday life?
In our daily livelihoods, many issues or ideas impact how we distinguish ourselves from one another, including the social classes in which we exist. Bourdieu reflects on different classes within the society, including the dominant class, middle class, and lower class which are differentiated with different capital levels such as the economic, social, cultural, and symbolic capital. Bourdieu argues that the individuals in a social class share specific judgments, perceptions, behaviors, appreciations, and different modes of classification. The habitus of the classes provides the cognitive and emotional guidelines of a person, thus creating syndromes for tastes, speeches, and dressing styles, among other responses. For instance, individuals from a particular location tend to choose a particular food and align their food preferences to the code of dressing, eating methods, and cultural actions. According to Bourdieu, tastes include the ways of dressing, food choices, and the appreciation of certain arts, which varies per social class. The conflicts between tastes and classes in the society are more or less the same because the tastes are determined by the cultural hierarchy, which reflects the social hierarchy that affects classes. Roughly, Bourdieu provides types of tastes that relate to the high and low objective classes (Turner, 2012).
A study conducted by Deeming (2014) in Britain discovered that the social parameters reflect judgment, as suggested by Bourdieu. The research indicates that the necessity is very significant to the dominant class's cultural fraction, while the employed families and those with low levels of education view necessity as durable goods, family and community life, and personal items. The study supports the Bourdieu social theory in that it shows a pronounced distinction between the low-class unskilled employees with the highly learned professionals. Furthermore, the article indicates that an individual's livelihood and level of education shape people's tastes and choices, which is in line with Bourdieu's submission of social necessity (2014). Bourdieu also argues that the systems in schools lead to social inequalities since the cultures in most schools align with the behaviors of children from middle-class backgrounds. The extent of such inequalities is visible in the student results as mostly the children from middle-class backroads perform better than their counterparts from the working-class families. The explanations for the performances are often attributed to the students from middle-class families having more abilities which is not always the case (Manstead, 2018). The distinctions and cultures created can be very sickening to some students, especially those from low-class backgrounds.
Cultural capital falls among the cultural resources that an individual may possess. According to Bourdieu's arguments, people with a cultural capital in an institutionalized state, objectified state, or embodied state can use them to gain access to social resources, thus enhancing t...