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Week Ten_Boundary Maintenance and Habitus_Self and Social Interaction

Week Ten_Boundary Maintenance and Habitus_Self and Social Interaction

Q Applying concepts from this week's material, including Zerubavel, Swartz, and relevant concepts as discussed in videos, discuss the ways in which the students in the below video • experience • enact • perpetuate, and • resist social distinctions.

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The society cannot be free from the clutches of social status, social distinctions, and socially constructed ideas about the self and all these together make one superior to others or inferior to another, even though these are social ideas and not real and fundamental creations based on science. These are socially created distinctions that people create in order to create a “habitus” for them based on which they decide on which end of the spectrum do they lie, the privileged one or not, however, the idea of distinctions has existed since the Creation and isn’t a new concept (Zerubavel).