Accumulation Of Cultural Capital Research Articles

Coping strategies of food insecure households with children and adolescents in Uruguay, a high-income Latin American country: A qualitative study through the lens of Bourdieu's theories of capitals and practice

Food insecurity has been associated with negative short, medium, and long-term health consequences, which are more detrimental for children and adolescents. These effects may depend on the coping strategies developed to deal with food shortages. The present research aimed at exploring coping strategies in food insecure households with children and adolescents in Uruguay, incorporating sociological theoretical insights from Bourdieu. A qualitative approach based on individual semi-structured interviews was used. A total of 40 interviews were conducted with adults who had parental responsibilities of children and adolescents and who received different types of food assistance, between July and December 2022, in four cities. Results showed that adults tend to develop a wide range of coping strategies aimed at: reducing food expenditure, increasing the availability of money for purchasing food, increasing food availability and/or rationing the food available in the household. Some of the strategies were implemented regardless of the severity of food insecurity, whereas others were characteristic of the moderate and severe levels of the construct. Evidence to support the mediation effect of coping strategies on health outcomes was found. Discourses suggested that lower accumulation of economic and cultural capital may be aligned with the adoption of less socially accepted mechanisms to access to food. Expressions of a specific habitus aimed at securing food were identified among participants with more deprivations. Taken together, the findings suggest that coping strategies may not be a universal or invariant sequence according to the severity of food insecurity and stress the importance of considering households’ resources and local context for the development of strategies to improve access to food.

Публичная история в городском пространстве: символический ресурс прошлого и культурный капитал

The article considers the role of public history in the development of modern city’s cultural capital. Public history is defined in terms of the peculiarities of its tools, which contribute to the involvement of the symbolic resource of the past in current cultural communications and the accumulation of cultural capital of urban local communi-ties. Cultural capital is understood not only in the context of assessing the city’s cultural resources, but also their involvement in the production of public goods and flows of communications and services. The development of cultural capital is described in the context of three interrelated aspects of urban space: practical, imaginary and lived. The necessity to actualize the symbolic resource of the past and its use in improving the quality of urban environment is caused by the increased competition of modern cities for the most active and qualified resi-dents.

Review disagreements, cultural capital, and cultural discount on imported hollywood movies in China

Within the context of mounting competition faced by Hollywood movies in the global cinema market, particularly in emerging markets, this paper examines the influence of review disagreements and cultural capital on the cultural discount of imported Hollywood blockbusters in China's movie market. Using a dataset of 652 movies from the U.S. spanning 1994–2019, we find that review disagreements between U.S. and Chinese consumers exacerbate the cultural discount on imported Hollywood movies in China. However, cultural capital, measured by the accumulated revenue of specific imported movie genres in China, effectively mitigates this discount. We also observe a reduction in the discount for movie genres with fewer language barriers. Accounting for endogeneity due to reverse causality and selection bias, we identify a significant structural break in 2012. In the post-2012 era, collaboration involving China's censorship, quota rules, and film-production laws has improved the market mechanism and cultural capital accumulation, enhancing the performance of imported Hollywood movies in China. Minority movies, characterized by being less mainstream and commercial, are more sensitive to review disagreements, while cultural capital plays a greater role in mitigating the discount for mainstream Hollywood movies. These findings have significant implications for professionals involved in the distribution and screening of Hollywood movies in China.

An analytical study of internal and external factors influencing greenhouse gas emissions reporting in the Chinese banking sector

This paper utilises Bourdieu's theory of practice and secondary and interview data to investigate the impact of internal and external factors on the GHG reporting practices of Chinese banks. The paper shows in response to external stimulation; banks utilise measures to boost awareness and modify habitus via internal management reforms towards transparent and reliable GHG disclosures. These changes, in turn, allow the accumulation of social, economic and cultural capital. In addition, the findings reveal shortcomings in conducting internal management reform and external assurance. The paper provides insights into the motivations and changes required to improve the extent and quality of GHG disclosures.

Reinventing selves and connections through community volunteering: how care leavers and their supporters create a space for agency and self-work

Young people leaving out-of-home care experience higher levels of emotional, social, educational and vocational disadvantage when compared with peers from stable home-care environments. Care leavers’ educational trajectories may be interrupted, their development of self-identity during transition through adolescence disturbed, and their social and emotional development disrupted due to their diminished accumulation of social and cultural capital. This article presents a re-analysis of the qualitative data derived from a mixed-method study of the experience of young care leavers engaged with a community-based volunteering project in the United Kingdom. We describe how young care leavers developed self-efficacy through volunteering and show how care leavers create a space for agency and self-work, negotiate and cultivate identities independent from statutory supports, and situate themselves within wider relational and social contexts. Implications for future research, policy and practice with younger people leaving statutory care are explored.

Consumer culture and symbolic capital in a differentiated Pakistani transnational community: ‘It is a fake type of izzat’

Drawing on original qualitative data this article analyses fluid and shifting notions of symbolic capital within the Pakistani diaspora in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. Focusing on the South Asian concept of izzat (honour/prestige) it is argued that the field of local symbolic prestige is adapting to the macro context laid down by consumer culture as its mechanisms permeate the structural, cultural and everyday lives of this transnational community. This is partially and differentially influencing forms of cultural and symbolic capital accumulation in the community, as evidenced by subtle and varied changes in the appropriation and exchange of izzat. Izzat is a phenomenon which has been centrally embedded within Pakistani cultures and societies for centuries. Our key argument is that the context and nature of izzat among the Pakistani transnational community studied are being significantly shaped and altered by the role of consumer culture in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, but that this simultaneously maps onto existing hierarchies and social differentiation within this transnational community, as well as contemporary discourse on and divisions over Muslim identity and piety.

Family capital, social stratification, and access to higher education: An empirical study in mainland China.

This paper employs Bourdieu's theory of capital-focusing on family cultural, social, and economic capital-to research the early-stage mechanism through which access to higher education is formed. While all three types of capital play a significant role in acquiring higher education, most studies tend to focus on just one type of capital. In recent years, domestic scholars have also analyzed in detail the family factors affecting children's access to higher education (CAHE); however, they have not yet explained the mechanism by which these factors influence CAHE, and authentic tests are rare. Therefore, based on existing research, this paper uses the theoretical concept of family capital to reveal how contemporary Chinese families affect their CAHE. This paper analyzes the relationship between family capital, social stratification, and access to higher education opportunities using an econometric model based on baseline data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2010 to 2020, with 10,318 participants, including 4,419 females and 5,899 males. The results of a binary logistic regression analysis show that the possession of family cultural and economic capital has a direct positive influence on CAHE. Children from the elite stratum often benefit more from the accumulation of family cultural capital. Moreover, although it does not form a distinct stratum, the possession of family social capital also significantly influences children's access to higher education. Driven by China's political, economic, and social environment, some children from the blue-collar stratum have a comparative advantage in terms of access to higher education. The possession of family capital is an important factor in the stratification of CAHE, and cultural capital is the most influential type of capital. Parents with a low level of education should be encouraged to become engaged in schools and communities to take professional courses in assisted learning, emotional counseling, decision-making, and voluntary service.

Exploring the Changing Pathway to Cultivating an Elite ‘International’ Child in China

In the context of globalization, upper-middle-class parents choose international schools as an educational strategy to prepare their children to become cosmopolitans through the accumulation of linguistic and cosmopolitan cultural capital that can be transferred and bring advantages in the future. This article examines how legislative changes influence the international school market in China, affect parents’ choices while raising an ‘international’ child. In order to gain a competitive edge, this research hypothesized that parents might alter their school selection strategy and begin to accumulate ‘start-up’ capital for their children before compulsory schooling.

The regional turn to modernist studies in Singapore

AbstractThe past decade or so saw a regional turn to modernist studies in Singapore. Numerous projects are mapping out the networks of institutions, artists, and writers that disseminated and reinvented Euro‐American modernism in Southeast Asia from the 1930s. While this networked approach enables the recovery of neglected modernists in the non‐West, particularly women, it is also too neatly aligned with Singapore's self‐branding as a global city and its ongoing accumulation of cultural capital. Related scholarship is circumscribed by a tension between a desire to diversify modernist studies and a narrow fixation on connecting Singapore‐based artists and writers to already established modernist networks. In the process, an implicit conception of modernity and modernism that privileges connectivity, mobility, and capital is installed. Consequently, inconvenient facets of regional art and literature, as well as intra‐regional connections, are overlooked. I examine how these dynamics play out in projects on the Nanyang artists and writers, a group of diasporic Chinese literati who worked in Southeast Asia following their exposure to Euro‐American modernism. In closing, I turn to emergent avenues of research which counteract the nationalist slant to the study of regional modernisms in Singapore.

National cultural capital as out of reach for transnationally mobile Israeli professional families – making a ‘return home’ fraught

ABSTRACT The potentiality of converting capitals in new national fields following migration has been the focus of a number of studies. Another, much smaller, literature examines experiences of return migration. In this paper, we follow 15 Israeli families (where both mothers and children have been interviewed) who have been globally mobile for professional reasons. We examine cultural capital accumulation strategies for the children and how these facilitate the occupation of advantageous social positions while abroad. Having returned to Israel, partly due to the COVID pandemic, the national cultural capital the families have so actively cultivated in their children is evaluated as not authentic enough. Meanwhile, the cosmopolitan cultural capital that has been so valorised abroad, is not recognised as something the children can draw on to position themselves either. The paper contributes to the study of return migration, with a unique focus on globally mobile families returning ‘home’. We also examine how national cultural capital is conceived and differentially assessed as families move from a more transnational space to that of their home country.

Music studies as cultural capital accumulation and its impact on music genre preferences

Music preferences have been shown to be determined by a diversity of factors such as cognitive, emotional, cultural, or experiential. Having studied music is also a factor that has been considered from a musicology standpoint and is linked to the accumulation of cultural capital, as analyzed in cultural economics, arts management, and the sociology of culture. Research on how music studies influence music genre preferences shed light on the role that music education plays in the stock of cultural capital individuals hold. To do so, an exploratory empirical survey was undertaken using self-administered questionnaires targeted to a sample of 231 students. Findings, after performing multivariate analysis, showed that knowledge or familiarity plays an important role in music genre preferences. Specifically, having studied music affects the choice of music genres. These results contribute to the literature on music preferences, and specifically on their determinants, establishing the connection of music education with the accumulation of cultural capital and its influence on the formation of music genre preferences.

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Rethinking international student mobility through the lens of “crisis” at a juncture of pandemic and global uncertainties

ABSTRACT International student mobility (ISM), defined as the movement of students to pursue tertiary education outside their countries of citizenship, has conventionally been understood in terms of micro social actors’ behaviours of cultural capital accumulation and macro-level institutional processes following the logics of neoliberal globalization and knowledge economy. The COVID-19 pandemic has abruptly and severely impacted ISM, plunging the latter into what seems to be a “crisis”. Taking this fluid juncture as an opportunity for reflection and re-thinking, this paper re-examines ISM through the discursive lens of “crisis”. Broadening the “crisis” perspective beyond the pandemic to include a longitudinal view over the twentieth century through to the present, the paper considers the ways in which movement and recruitment of international students may be seen as consequences of as well as responses to “crises” of various natures – geopolitical, economic, and social. The author’s own work on student mobilities in Asia is drawn upon for illustration. The paper ends by briefly considering both the immediate crises confronting ISM, as well as various broader global uncertainties lying ahead.

Crisis in Modern teaching: What went wrong?

Crisis in modern teaching is examined as a result of an inflow of the new generations of university students in the 2010s. This crisis is reflected in demolition of traditional text culture, progressing rejection of the cultural capital passive accumulation, emergence of the alternative educational programs, new requirements to the teaching materials, increasing difficulties in keeping attention of the students, erosion of their sustainable motivation, noticeable decline of the teachers’ authority, persistent attempts to question the assessment systems, spread of new ethic, and strengthening of students’ intentions to defend their rights.

Structured inequalities and authors’ positionalities in academic publishing: The case of Philippine international migration scholarship

This article examines structured inequalities and authors’ positionalities in the academic publishing field. It uses Bourdieu’s insights in explaining the reproduction of publishing inequality and mobility through cultural capital and habitus modification. The article elaborates ‘positionality’ to constitute structure and agency through position and positioning, and situates academics in varying positionalities (insider, outsider, hybrid) in the global publishing field. Focusing on Filipino international migration scholarship, the article examines 392 journal articles from 1989 to 2018, and tracks the first authors’ ethnicity, institutional affiliation, and university where they received their PhD. The findings show that authors institutionally affiliated in the Global North (insiders) dominate the field (publication count and citations), while homeland-based Filipino scholars are in the periphery (outsiders). With their insider-leaning hybrid positionality, overseas Filipino scholars in the Global North accrue network-mediated benefits. They have respectable representation in publication count and are the most frequently cited authors. Positionality is examined as cultural capital accumulation and adoption of the dominant habitus that enable academics to shift positionality from outsider to insider and derive benefits in research and publishing. The article contributes to the literature on positionality-based inequalities in knowledge production and a periphery standpoint in the discourse on academic publishing inequality.

Increasing Visibility of the Turkish Fans of South Korean Popular Culture through Translation

Having made a remarkable contribution to social questions in translation studies, the sociological approach to translation explores the interaction between human agents, translated texts, and their context of production and reception (Chesterman, 2006; Wolf &amp;amp; Fukari, 2007; Wolf, 2011). The research in this study is focused on target text users/pro-consumers. In line with this aim, this study is centered on Turkish fans of South Korean popular culture, most of whom have consumed, produced, and distributed diverse Korean popular culture products largely through translation. The present research particularly intends to problematize Korean fandom in Turkey considering John Fiske’s approach to fandom, which is based on Bourdieu’s consideration of culture, operating like an economic system to distribute its resources unequally and therefore distinguishing between individuals who possess greater degree of capital and the others deprived of it. This research, based on the Internet-mediated interviews (with 43 Turkish fans of South Korean pop culture), argues that Bourdieu’s consideration of fans as a group that is devoid of social and cultural power and is considered undistinguished in their cultural preferences and interpretative practices partly fails to enlighten the case of the Korean Wave fans in Turkey. This study has revealed that, cultural capital is not fixed but open to struggles, disclosing the fact that accumulation of popular cultural capital can bring prestige to certain fans that are more involved in and possess high knowledge within the fan community. Then, it has been posited that social networks play a far more major role in the formation and persistence of the fan community than does the accumulation of cultural capital. It has also been observed that popular cultural capital of Korean Wave fans can readily be converted into high social capital since Turkish fans who display their accumulated popular cultural capital are able to broaden their reach to other fans. Lastly, this research discloses that, Turkish fans’ increasing visibility and their influence over mass culture appear to form a particular kind of fan habitus which allows for variability in tastes and actions of the fans.

Problematic issues in constructing the common space of “knowledge societies”: resources of international cooperation in the field of culture

The article is devoted to the analysis of problematic issues of strategic lines’ realization within the international cultural policy and management. New challenges of modern realities of coexistence require a change in the usual established format of policy in the field of culture, creativity of its semantic and instrumental capital, in particular a new view on the discourse of international management in the field of culture. International cultural cooperation is considered as a constructed and organized knowledge exchange process and experience of sharing this knowledge. In this context, cultural management is a fundamental organizational and practical component of the universalization of the new accumulated knowledge about the experience of harmonization between global and local. The article raises questions concerning the effectiveness of methods and mechanisms of knowledge transfer, the search for resources of international cultural cooperation for the creation, accumulation and sustainable development of joint cultural capital.

Chemsex cultures: Subcultural reproduction and queer survival

“Chemsex” emerged in the 21st century as the gay and bisexual male practice of taking drugs during sexual encounters in order to modulate pleasures, promote endurance, and expand the temporalities of sex. Yet, while the term has come to prominence at a historical juncture when the introduction of antiretroviral drugs, locative dating apps, online pornography, and gentrification all contributed to the popularisation and mediation of the practice, the history of sex on drugs among gay men is longer than that. In this article, I draw from that history, as well as from wider critical histories and anthropologies of drug use in order to explore the subcultural significance of sexualised drug use amongst queer folk. If, as Bourdieu argued, the hegemony of the ruling classes is sustained by forms of economic, social, and cultural capital accumulation and reproduction, I build on scholarship on subcultural and post-subcultural studies to frame chemsex as a practice of subcultural reproduction that connects contemporary gay and bisexual men across generations, ensuring the survival of their cultures and subjectivities. In so doing, I focus on chemsex’s potential as a life-affirming cultural practice, one that can ensure the symbolic and even material survival not only of the men who engage in it, but also of the subcultures and subcultural histories within which they locate themselves every time they decide to “party and play.”

The Genealogy of a Book Collection: An Early History of the Cavendish Family’s Book Collection, 1599-1811

ABSTRACT This article analyses the early modern book collecting activities of the Devonshire branch of the Cavendish family as an example of elite cultural capital accumulation across multiple generations. The detailed records of seventeenth-century book collection by the first, second and third Earls of Devonshire and their librarian-tutor Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), demonstrate the development of the collection at Hardwick Hall as a resource for investment information, political news, scholarly activity and children’s education. The family tradition was continued by the first Duke of Devonshire (1640–1707) who shifted the base of collection to Chatsworth House, and the bibliophile second Duke (1673–1729) who expended vast amounts on works using an array of London booksellers; as did the third Earl of Burlington (1694–1753), and the Duchess Georgiana Cavendish (1757–1806) thereafter. These collections were amalgamated at Chatsworth by the sixth Duke of Devonshire at the start of the nineteenth century, where this account concludes.

Incoming and outgoing academic mobility in Russia and abroad: main trends, administrative challenges

PurposeThe goal of research consists in identifying trends in academic mobility in Russia and abroad, primarily that of academic staff; contributing suggestions on improving the management of academic mobility processes.Design/methodology/approachThe research uses methods of observation, comparative analysis, as well as statistical method and generalization method supported by the facts. A comparative analysis of statistical data is made; these data were taken from the publicly available reliable sources of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Human Resource Development Department of the Asia–Pacific and others.FindingsIt was found that the level of academic mobility rises with the rising level of education. The overall mobility of tertiary students – in particular, students and postgraduate students, is growing throughout the world. Mobile postgraduate students demonstrate better research results during training. Even short-term academic internships for postgraduate students contribute to the successful implementation of research projects at their host university and the spread of new knowledge in general. In general, academic mobility contributes to the accumulation of human and cultural scientific capital that makes a connection between research communities in different countries. Based on the research findings, it was found that no statistics are collected on the foreign academic mobility of postgraduate students and young researchers in Russia. Based on the analysis, it may be deduced that the scope of academic mobility is extremely small. European countries are the main countries of prevailing academic mobility.Originality/valueGiven the importance of participation in foreign academic mobility for the development of the competitiveness of national science in Russia, it appears that there is a need to monitor the foreign academic mobility of Russian postgraduate students and young researchers. The monitoring of foreign academic mobility of Russian postgraduate students and young researchers is a systematic observation of the status and conditions of training highly qualified personnel in Russian educational establishments and scientific organizations, providing educational authorities of Russia with up-to-date information on the status of outgoing academic mobility necessary for analyzing and forecasting the development of the national education system and national labor market.