Key Words Dictionary

Capital:

Economic capital is expressed largely in symbolic terms as money and assets with monetary expression.” Beginning with Bourdieu in educational research

Cultural capital refers mainly to the products of education, whether these are visible in individuals (accent, vocabulary, bearing etc), connected to objects like qualifications or books, or connected to institutions, like schools and universities.” Beginning with Bourdieu in educational research

Social capital is based on who you know and networks you are in.

Desire: a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen. (OED)

Disposition: a person's inherent qualities of mind and character.

Embody: To make part of a system or whole; incorporate

Fields:different areas in society including constitutions, social groups and work places.

Habitus: Simple Way: It is really a way of talking about the embodiment of previous social fields, whereby individuals acquire and carry ways of thinking and being and doing from one place to another. It is about how past social structures get into present action and how current actions confirm or reshape current structures. Beginning with Bourdieu in educational research

Habitus is ‘the way society becomes deposited in persons in the form of lasting dispositions, or trained capacities and structured propensities to think, feel and act in determinant ways, which then guide them’ (Wacquant 2005: 316, cited in Navarro 2006: 16). http://www.powercube.net/other-forms-of-power/bourdieu-and-habitus/

‘...when habitus encounters a social world of which it is the product, it finds itself “as a fish in water” Beginning with Bourdieu in educational research

Hyperreal/Hyperreality: an image or simulation, or an aggregate of images and  simulations, that either distorts the reality it purports (intends) to depict or does not in  fact depict anything with a real existenceat all, but which nonetheless comes to  constitute reality. OR

"By "hyperreal," Baudrillard means the representation of a thing or event which has no counterpart or analog in consensus reality--the hyperreal is, in a sense, a new thing which seems to refer to something real." http://www.media-studies.ca/articles/vr.htm "He is concerned, for example, that the news on television has nothing to do with real-world events; rather, the news is a simulation designed to hold the attention of the viewer." 

Generation Y:  the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s, comprising primarily the children of the baby boomers and typically perceived as increasingly familiar with digital and electronic technology. (Baby Bloomers born between 1946 and 1964. Post war, rejecting traditional values.)

Pseudo: Not genuine; sham.

Saturation: The state or process that occurs when no more of something can be absorbed, combined with, or added.

Schemata (pl of schema) : An outline, plan or scheme

Simulacrum (simulacra-plural): an image or representation of someone or something:

• a small-scale simulacrum of a skyscraper

an unsatisfactory imitation or substitute:a bland simulacrum of American soul music
"a material image, made as a representation of some deity, person, or thing,""something having merely the form or appearance of a certain thing, without possessing its substance or proper qualities,"
Simulation: "the action or practice of simulating, with an intent to deceive,""the technique of imitating the behavior of some situation or process...by means of a suitably analogous situation or apparatus""a false assumption or display, a surface resemblance or imitation, of something,"Oxford English Dictionary
Simulation Vs Simulacrum:"Like the simulation, the simulacrum bears a resemblance to the thing that it imitates only on the surface level (see: surface), but as opposed to the simulation's mimicry of a process or situation, the simulacrum is defined as a static entity, a "mere image" rather than something that "imitat[es] the behavior" of the real thing on which it is based."http://csmt.uchicago.edu/glossary2004/simulationsimulacrum.htmNOTE:AMERICANISM
Ubiquitous:Present, appearing, or found everywhere: "his ubiquitous influence".

Virtual: Existing in essence or effect though not in actual fact. Computing not physically existing as such but made by software to appear to do so:virtual image.