Economic Crisis and Classed Everyday Life: Hysteresis, Positional Suffering and Symbolic Violence
Economic Crisis and Classed Everyday Life: Hysteresis, Positional Suffering and Symbolic Violence
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经济危机和阶级日常生活:滞后、地位苦难和象征性暴力
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2013
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W. Atkinson
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Economic crises, according to Marx’s fundamental law of capital accumulation, undermine the condition of existence of the dominated class — the proletariat — that is to say, their capacity to sell their labour, by relegating ever greater numbers to the impoverished reserve army of industrial labour.1 From a Bourdieusian point of view, however, the classed consequences of the ‘business cycle’, as it is euphemistically dubbed, are somewhat different. For if class is indeed defined by shared conditions of existence, then these are constituted not merely by ownership or not of the means of production, even if, as economic capital returning economic capital, that undoubtedly contributes to them, but by relative distance from material necessity given by possession of multiple forms of capital — economic but also cultural and social capital.2 This relative distance from necessity, yielding probabilities of access to particular goods, services, powers, experiences and regions of the class structure, produces a habitus, or system of dispositions attuned to those probabilities which, making a virtue of necessity — as all humans seek to find a principle of recognition in the lifeworld into which they are thrown — translates them into tastes. The differential distribution of resources, however, endows differential capacity to impose one’s own tastes as legitimate — as what all should strive to be and do — through the fields of cultural and ideological production, meaning that, far from being considered ‘different but equal’, classed tastes are hierarchised and venerated or vilified depending on which position one is looking at and from.