The Influence of the Habitus of Cultural Sttudies Students on their Perception of Employment at the End of their Studies

Abstract

Cilj ovog diplomskog rada je istražiti kako studenti kulturalnih studija percipiraju vlastite mogućnosti zapošljavanja, odnosno rada po završetku studija. Rad se pritom koristi s dvije društveno-znanstvene tradicije - antropološkom, odnosno kulturalnom antropologijom, od koje preuzima etnografsku metodu istraživanja, te sociološkom, gdje se koristi teorijom Pierrea Bourdieua, poglavito njegovim teorijskim instrumentarijem, odnosno razradama koncepata habitusa, polja i kapitala. Pritom će pokušati dati sliku suvremene vrijednosne dominante, kao i osnovne pravne i ekonomske pozadine rada i zapošljavanja. Rad će pokušati izložiti individualne habituse te pokušati dokazati postojanje zajedničkih značajki habitusa, zadobivenih tokom školovanja unutar humanističkog polja kulturalnih studija, kako bi u konačnici ukazao na njegov znatan utjecaj prilikom individualnog percipiranja mogućnosti zapošljavanja.The goal of this paper is to find out the mechanism through which the students of the Department of Cultural Studies in Rijeka, Croatia, perceive their chances of employment after obtaining their bachelors or masters degree in cultural studies. The foundations of the thesis lie upon two complementary social sciences: cultural anthropology and sociology of culture. It uses ethnography as its main method of research, closely intertwined with theory of Pierre Bourdieu, mainly his elaborate and expansive work on interconnected concepts of habitus, field and capital. This paper will try to display the habitus of individual students, and try to prove the existence of common values and dispositions, obtained during education within the field of predominantly humanistic bent, to point out its considerable influence upon individual perception of gaining employment