Gregory's Server@bhawthorne @troll5 Actually that's an excellent question. You become cool by incorporating cultural capital, as defined by Bourdieu in La Distinction and Les trois états du capital culturel (both published in 1979). I probably should sum it up on Gemini, I have an English-speaking section there. Anyway, you incorporate cultural capital on your free time, and this is mostly true for the upper class (social media being a distraction for the lower class).
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@bhawthorne @troll5 And then there's the cultural capital here, which is _how_ you reach a higher class or rather a higher social course ("trajectoire sociale"), as well as the economic capital, because obviously struggling to make both ends meet stresses mothers. But cool people don't especially have a high IQ, it just helps when you use the right information tools, not when you're addicted to Twitter. The key is a well-informed brain, and free time. |
@bhawthorne @troll5 Having a high IQ also helps and this is still something specific to the higher class; I define mine as the transfert of my basic trust ((?) Abram Kardiner) to school symbolism, which was introduced to me since my birth or even before by my mother, who's a good enough mother, would talk to me while being pregnant, etc.