{"id":53783,"date":"2013-02-23T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=53783"},"modified":"2013-02-10T21:47:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T02:47:53","slug":"the-difference-between-nerds-and-hipsters-with-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/02\/23\/the-difference-between-nerds-and-hipsters-with-glasses\/","title":{"rendered":"The Difference Between Nerds and Hipsters with Glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Screenshot_15\"<\/a>Naama Nagar tweeted<\/a>\u00a0us<\/a> an interesting video commentary about hipsters. \u00a0In it,\u00a0Mike Rugnetta uses Pierre Bourdieu’s idea of cultural capital to describe the difference between nerds and hipsters.<\/p>\n

This is a topic I’ve enjoyed thinking about myself\u00a0(on CNN<\/a>\u00a0and here at SocImages<\/a>). \u00a0I think Rugnetta makes an interesting argument that resonates with the observations of sociologists: being a hipster is about borrowing other people’s authentic cultural signifiers as their main or only consistent cultural practice. \u00a0Check it out:<\/p>\n

<\/object><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Naama Nagar tweeted\u00a0us an interesting video commentary about hipsters. \u00a0In it,\u00a0Mike Rugnetta uses Pierre Bourdieu’s idea of cultural capital to describe the difference between nerds and hipsters. This is a topic I’ve enjoyed thinking about myself\u00a0(on CNN\u00a0and here at SocImages). \u00a0I think Rugnetta makes an interesting argument that resonates with the observations of sociologists: being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,225,15,253,37],"class_list":["post-53783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-clothesfashion","tag-culture","tag-history","tag-social-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53783"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53785,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53783\/revisions\/53785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}