Class, Culture & Capital

This board explores issues of social stratification, class identities, cultural capital and taste cultures. Pins relate to critical cultural theories of class and representations of class in the media.
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Wife Swap, Class, and Cultural Capital
Bourdieu's Food Chart [click on this image to find a short clip and analysis of Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital]
Karl Marx, Yesterday and Today
How useful is Karl Marx—who died a hundred and thirty-three years ago—for understanding our world?
All About Cultural Capital
Pierre Bourdieu developed one of the most important theoretical concepts in sociology: cultural capital. Click to learn all about it and how it affects your life.
Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems
Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all. Why has the left failed to come up with an alternative?
A Brief Introduction to Marxism
A Brief Introduction to Marxism. This presentation looks at the basic idea of Marxism, specifically the conflict between the different classes in society.
RSA ANIMATE: Crises of Capitalism
David Harvey + RSA Animate - Crises of Capitalism
SPENT
Spent is a game designed to help people understand the challenges and trade-offs faced by low-income people with insecure employment. The “game” begins when you’ve been unemployed, have only $1,000 left in your bank account, and need to get a low wage job.
User-generated content, free labour and the cultural industries | Ephemeral Journal
User-generated content, free labour and the cultural industries | ephemera
The short guide to Capital in the 21st Century
Thomas Piketty, Capital in the 21st Century. "When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income...capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based."
This funny and informative comic explains the origins of Marxist philosophy, history, economics; of capital, labor, the class struggle, socialism and offers a biographical account of Marx himself. Read the full text online at this link.
Working class or affluent? Find out where you fit in Australia
New research from the ANU shows there are five social classes in Australia. Take our questionnaire to find out where you fit.
The Wire Restaurant Scene
Cultural Capital. Click on this image to find a short video from HBO's The Wire and an analysis of Pierre Bourdieu's concept, cultural capital.