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twentieth-century French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu stated that a “triadic structure” of schooling, language, and taste was necessary to be accepted among the upper class. Bourdieu described the mastery of this triad as “ease.” When you grow up in a social class, you come to embody it.
Rob Henderson • Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
Eichhorn responds to the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's 1970s concept of "cultural capital": the fluency in forms of high culture that could bestow social status and help members of elite classes to identify one another.
Cultural capital is knowing that cashmere is a more aspirational fabric than cotton or that a Jackson Pollock painting is much
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The attachment we have to an individual can supersede an overall decrease in our quality of life, and so the love we usually have toward our children means that our choice to bring them into existence has value above and beyond whatever effect they have on our happiness.