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Unlocking Social Theory with Popular CultureChoose Your Driver: How Super Mario Kart Helps Explain Bourdieusian Sociology

Unlocking Social Theory with Popular Culture: Choose Your Driver: How Super Mario Kart Helps... [Playing Super Mario Kart, driving around the Mushroom Kingdom, I suspect that sociologist Pierre Bourdieu must have been a consultant at Nintendo. Bourdieu’s theorising of fields of power and social distinction inform contemporary understandings of institutional structures, the accumulation of different forms of capital, and hierarchical social status. Mario’s iconic and influential video game replicates some of the fundamental points in Bourdieu’s literature, via the common factors of life goals, challenging environments, gathering resources and group ranking.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Unlocking Social Theory with Popular CultureChoose Your Driver: How Super Mario Kart Helps Explain Bourdieusian Sociology

Part of the Critical Studies of Education Book Series (volume 15)
Editors: Barnes, Naomi; Bedford, Alison
Johnson, Karl
Unlocking Social Theory with Popular Culture — Aug 27, 2021
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-77010-5
Pages
101 –111
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-77011-2_9
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Abstract

[Playing Super Mario Kart, driving around the Mushroom Kingdom, I suspect that sociologist Pierre Bourdieu must have been a consultant at Nintendo. Bourdieu’s theorising of fields of power and social distinction inform contemporary understandings of institutional structures, the accumulation of different forms of capital, and hierarchical social status. Mario’s iconic and influential video game replicates some of the fundamental points in Bourdieu’s literature, via the common factors of life goals, challenging environments, gathering resources and group ranking.]

Published: Aug 27, 2021

Keywords: Nintendo; Gaming; Bourdieu; Field; Mario Kart; Class; Capital; Habitus

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