Cultural Capital Research Articles

Portuguese language learning and capital access: a study on university students in Macau

This paper reports on an inquiry into a group of students’ Portuguese language learning with a focus on their access to economic, social, and cultural capital. The inquiry problematizes the traditional uncritical assumption of a shared pursuit of linguistic competence among students. Drawing on individual in-depth interviews with 14 participants at a university in Macau, this article illustrates how local and mainland Chinese students related their Portuguese language learning to the acquisition of different forms of capital, respectively. Specifically, our analysis reveals that economic capital dominated in the local participants’ pursuits, with cultural and social capital being less influential, whereas among mainland Chinese participants the influence of economic capital was weak and unsustainable, with a balanced distribution of cultural and social capital. The findings also suggest that the participants’ family contexts and social networks shaped their pursuits of different forms of capital in Portuguese learning, implying that educational institutions and teachers need to reframe their learning resources and pedagogical strategies for Portuguese language learners in Macau, placing greater emphasis on reinforcing students’ social connections with Portuguese or local Macanese communities.

Theorizing Fatal Strategies: A New Leftist Vocabulary of Jean Baudrillard

This essay explores Jean Baudrillard’s “fatal strategies” outlined in his seminal work, Fatal Strategies. It also explores their relevance to contemporary postmodern capitalist culture. Baudrillard’s writing style mirrors the ecstatic nature of the society he critiques, employing symbolic exchange to intensify its logic to the point of collapse. The essay further examines Baudrillard’s possible leftist vocabulary rooted in critical theory, poststructuralism, and anti-capitalist critique. Baudrillard’s leftist gesture rejects Enlightenment humanist presumptions, particularly the notion of “the social.” He argues that modern technology exposes humans’ predictability and heteronomy, rendering the Enlightenment ideals obsolete yet still haunting the postmodern “desert of the real.” Baudrillard’s work becomes an exorcism, banishing these specters by asserting that responsible collective subjects and genuine social projects never truly existed. Instead, he highlights “figures of the transpolitical,” such as the obese, hostages, and the obscene, as more indicative of contemporary reality. Moreover, Baudrillard challenges the historical privilege of the subject over the object, exploring the “fatal strategy” of the object “taking revenge” on the subject. His intellectual work, though unsystematic, consistently concerns the system of signs of ideology and the role of media and technology in shaping leftist identities. This essay thus sheds light on Baudrillard’s distinct perspective within the leftist cultural critique, providing insights into the postmodern condition and methodological prospects.

Nomad Teleworking

The research focuses on digital nomadic work and the emergence of new cultures of labor control, exploring how professionals in cyberspace react to these changes. The theme is developed through a dialogic methodology, investigating the reality of the modern work ecosystem and distinguishing concepts linked to the subject. Nomadic work, while attractive to workers, increases the possibility of risks to fundamental guarantees, distancing the achievement of decent work. This is due to uncontrolled working hours and mechanisms of digital dependence promoted through a false sense of belonging. On the other hand, the economic and purely capitalist culture does not prevent the realization of nomadic work. The principled basis motivating decent work is applicable to workers through social valuation and the reinforcement of mechanisms that promote social identity.

Do I Belong on TikTok? Algorithimography and Self-Making

Building on works in digital anthropology, belonging, and self-making, this article delves into physiological aspects of digital lifeworlds. Through collaborative ethnography the author worked with their sibling and the TikTok Ethnography Collective (TEC) to explore TikTok’s utility as a site of self-discovery and learning. From the processes which unfold during the collaboration, a fledgling methodology of algorithmography emerges and is developed through the article. The use of digital ethnographic methods mediated the relationship between the author and their sibling, opening an exploration into self-making practices on TikTok. Building on recent literature around TikTok and self-making, (Bimo and Bhandari 2022), and through “Tik-Talks'' with the author’s sister which centre on multiple forms of diagnoses with Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (HEDS), this article examines TikTok’s capacity and shortcomings as a place where one can learn to belong against the grain of neoliberal and capitalist cultures.

Library Funding and Reading Promotion Improve Reading Motivation, Family Cultural Capital, and Academic Achievement Among Students in Vietnam

Overseas charitable organizations often play a crucial role in fostering educational and cultural development in developing countries. Taiwan’s Zhi-Shan Foundation (hereinafter referred to as “Zhi-Shan”) has been establishing school libraries and promoting reading programs in rural counties and cities in Vietnam since 2008. This study analyzes dif erences in reading engagement, academic performance, and family cultural capital between students in schools funded by Zhi-Shan and those in nonfunded schools. The study objectives are to determine the ef ectiveness of the foundation’s reading programs and the relationships between students’ reading engagement, academic performance, and family cultural capital by using structural equation modeling.

The Relationship between Leadership, Organizational Culture, and Human Capital in Organizations: Bibliometric

Leadership, organisational culture, and human capital have important roles in every organisation. The purpose of this study is to reveal the relationship between leadership, organizational culture, and human capital in organisations with a bibliometric. The bibliometric method is used to provide a complete picture of the development of research related to a particular topic so that researchers can understand the topic at a macro level. Bibliometric studies help identify macro research gaps (sub-sub topics that have not been researched, emerging topic trends). The researcher focused on bibliometric analysis: co-authorship with the first author unit of analysis and co-occurrence with the keyword unit of analysis. The findings show that organisational culture variables, although a minority, still exist in the last 15 years to be researched further. On the other hand, human capital and leadership with emphasis on leadership style can be associated with other variables, such as competence, entrepreneurship, information-communication technology. This research also has limitations, namely in the literature sources obtained, increasing there are still few researchers who review leadership, organisational culture, and human capital.

Cultural Resources of Costume, Market Operation, and Cultural Capitalization Role of Cultural Heritage

The conspicuous capitalization of costume culture within Chinese ethnic tourism villages is readily discernible. This paper aims to understand the impact of costume culture resources on costume culture capitalization, and to discusses the intermediary role of market operation and the moderate effect of cultural heritage. Using 402 survey valid data from the operators, managers, and practitioners of ethnic tourism villages three ethnic tourism villages (Nangang Millennium Yao Village, Zhaoxing Dong Village, Zhoucheng Bai Village) in China for empirical path analysis, mediation analysis and moderation analysis. The results indicates that clothing cultural resources positively impacts the capitalization of costume culture, and clothing cultural resources is the predictor of market operation, furthermore, the market operation plays a mediating role in the relationship between clothing cultural resources and clothing cultural capitalization. Significantly, cultural heritage positively moderates the impact of clothing cultural resources on the capitalization of costume culture. The research has expanded the internal mechanism of the influence of clothing cultural resources on the capitalization of costume culture, revealing the importance of cultural heritage in achieving the capitalization of costume culture in ethnic tourism villages.

Australian Secondary science teachers’ perceptions about their classroom practices and student engagement – an analysis based on Science Capital Teaching Approach

ABSTRACT This paper analyses Australian secondary science teachers’ perceptions of their pedagogy and students’ classroom engagement based on the Science Capital Teaching Approach (SCTA). Previous research studies related to the idea of teaching to enhance the science capital of secondary students mainly employed qualitative methods to collect data from teachers. This often takes more time and resources to figure out teachers’ competency in implementing SCTA-related practices. This study gathered data through an online survey. The responses from the online survey were used to develop the ‘Teachers’ Self-reporting Science Capital Questionnaire’ (TSSCQ) comprising 11 scale variables with alpha values closer to seven or more. The TSSCQ supports secondary science teachers in self-assessing their agreement to the extent to which they incorporate SCTA-related practices into their science lessons. The TSSCQ along with a scoring guide assist the teachers to identify areas that they need to improve. A strong and statistically significant correlation has been found between the teaching practices that value science and scientists and the teaching practices that highlight the utility of science. Moreover, teachers did not strongly agree that they incorporate the teaching practices based on family cultural capital. The implications of these findings have been also discussed.

European Capital of Culture and creative industries: Real impact or unproven belief? The case of Wrocław

This study investigates the impact of the European Capital of Culture (ECoC) Wrocław 2016 on the growth of creative industries in the city. The research involved surveying managers of local enterprises in Wrocław's creative sectors, focusing on their opinions regarding the expected benefits of the ECoC and its potential influence on the companies' economic development in the future.The findings indicate that most respondents believed the ECoC positively impacted local development by fostering new artistic endeavours and promoting local entertainment companies. They also perceived significant economic effects, including increased demand for cultural goods and services and increased spending on culture and entertainment. Instead, opinions on company development were primarily influenced by the long-term investment climate that involves multiple factors. The ECoC indirectly contributed to this climate by redirecting local policies towards further cultural expansion, creating a more welcoming environment for cultural industries, and triggering spillover effects in this sector.Thus, the study argues that the ECoC title is not a direct catalyst for developing cultural industries in Wrocław. Rather, it represents the culmination of a long-term strategy to establish the city as a cultural hub, effectively enhancing this sector of the local economy.

A Challenge to Orthodoxy in Psychology: Thomas Sowell and Social Justice.

Psychologists address social-justice problems in their research and applied work, and their scholarly efforts have been influenced by assumptions, constructs, and hypotheses from the political left. Recently, some psychologists have called for increased intellectual and political diversity in psychology, particularly as such diversity may lead to improved problem-solving. As an attempt to increase intellectual diversity in psychology, we review here the scholarship of Thomas Sowell. His work represents a rich source of hypotheses for psychologists' future research. We focus on his views on the importance of freedom; the extent to which reforms can reduce freedom; the importance of free markets to human flourishing; the role of free markets in producing costs for discrimination; the way spontaneously ordered systems can contain knowledge that can be overlooked in reforms; and the importance of culture and cultural capital. We will also discuss Sowell's more thoroughgoing economic analyses of problems and solutions and his analyses of contingencies operating on politicians and reformers, as well as his views on conflicts in fundamental visions about human nature and the pivotal role of improvements in minority education.

Guidelines for the Development of Tourism Routes Based on Cultural Resources, Betong District, Yala Province

This article aimed to investigate guidelines for developing tourism routes based on cultural resources of Betong District, Yala Province. The data were collected through in-depth interviews with 25 representatives of the community and analyzed with content analysis. The study found that the guidelines for the development of tourism routes based on resource bases were integrating the strengths of the main cultural resource capitals, particularly natural-based and cultural-based capitals to initiate eco-cultural tourism.This type of tourism would develop three important types of tourism routes: cultural tourism, eco-tourism, and cultural-eco tourism routes in Betong.The cultural-eco tourism routes would be special interest tourism routes integrating cultural and ecological tourism in Betong. Two short-trip tour programs could be offered: half-day trips and one-day trips. The research results could be expanded into more routes of tour programs that could be linked with tourism networks in Betong to offer more choices to tourists.

Corrigendum to "Socioeconomic Status, Cultural Capital, and Social Capital in Adults: A Structural Equation Model" [Psicothema 34(1), 74-83

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7334/psicothema2023.193 Text: This article was originally published with errors, which have now been corrected in the online version: 1. The investigated alternative models have now been described more clearly. The method for comparing them with the original model has been correctly specified based only on Akaike’s Information Criterion (AIC) and not on the delta Comparative Fit Index, given that the models are not nested. 2. The formula for computing the critical value to which comparing the Mardia’s index for verifying if the data are multivariate normally distributed is equal to k(k+2) and not, as previously written, equal to k(k+1). 3. We have now specified that, in the Structural Equation Model, the correlations introduced between the dependent variables are correlations between the unexplained variance and thus may be described as partial correlations. 4. Finally, we have corrected the direction of the arrows of the lines from Participating, Consuming, and Expert Using observed variables toward the corresponding Cultural Capital latent variable and from Bonding and Bridging observed variables toward the corresponding social capital latent variable. DOI of original article: (https://doi.org/10.7334/ psicothema2021.231)

Intellectual capital and student mobility

ABSTRACT This paper advances the conceptualisation and application of intellectual capital, a key concept in the intellectual migration framework, to understand international student mobility. The intellectual migration framework contends that higher-education and highly-skilled migrants acquire, upgrade and utilise intellectual capital for upward career and social mobility. This paper argues that intellectual capital is not the sum of different forms of capitals, but a complete package with human, cultural and social capitals working in synergy through the agency of migrants. Focusing on higher-education students at the beginning of the intellectual migration continuum, it analyzes how intellectual capital is differentially accumulated at various stages of the educational process. Drawing on 51 semi-structured interviews with Chinese international students in North America, we learn that pre-migration intellectual capital, due largely to parents and family, reflects social inequality in contemporary societies whereas that obtained while studying abroad reveals more on individual agency. As such, intellectual capital accumulation abroad serves as a mediating process, especially for those with less privileged backgrounds. Supportive international higher education sectors in both sending and receiving countries can also assist students in their intellectual capital cultivation process and contribute to alleviating educational inequality.

Theory for the Job: Comparing Human Capital and Cultural Capital to Understand Graduates Employability

Theory for the Job: Comparing Human Capital and Cultural Capital to Understand Graduates Employability

Exploring the Relationship Between King's Authority and Religious Beliefs in Liangzhu Culture Through Analysis of the Divine Emblem

Since the successful inscription of an ancient city, the capital of the Liangzhu culture, in 2019, this archaeological culture has become one of the most robust evidence of the 5,000-year history of Chinese civilisation. This paper presents a unique study of the kings power and religious beliefs of the Liangzhu culture, based on the most important symbol of the culture, the divine emblem of half-human and half-animal, in conjunction with the available archaeological data. The study found that the divine emblem was a unity between nature and society and was carved on a jade ritual tool system, mainly jade cong (a pillar-shaped jade vessel), as a carrier of the beliefs of the Liangzhu ancestors. At the same time, relying on the divine emblem and the jade ritual system, the Liangzhu culture had a more mature class stratification, with the highest ruling group, the nobles, and the commoners, respectively. Moreover, the monarchs of Liangzhu controlled peoples beliefs by possessing jade vessels and performing rituals, thus consolidating their class and efficiently invocating productive capacity. Finally, the paper argues that the political system of Liangzhu society was a theocracy, which allowed for efficient centralised rule in the unity of faith. This paper examines the relationship between belief and king power in the Liangzhu culture, starting with its typical symbol of the divine emblem. It will be useful for the rest of the scholars to investigate further the religious beliefs and society of the Liangzhu culture.

STRATEGI MODAL ‘ALA AL-ASWANY DALAM ARENA SASTRA ARAB: KAJIAN SOSIOLOGI SASTRA PIERRE BOURDIEU

'Ala Al-Aswany is one of the modern Arab writers. His name is well-known among Arab writers, and his works are accepted, enjoyed, and studied by critics, even receiving numerous awards. This research aims to analyze the capital strategies employed by 'Ala Al-Aswany to obtain his position or legitimacy in the Arab literary arena using Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of literature. This study is a qualitative research with a descriptive-analytical method, using data sources such as books, articles, research reports, and other documents related to the topic and theory used. The data collection technique is documentation. The data is analyzed by identifying the author's biography and his contributions to the Arab literary world, then formulated and described relationally based on Pierre Bourdieu's capital structure. The results show that Al-Aswany possesses four types of capital classified from Pierre Bourdieu's perspective: economic, cultural, social, and symbolic capital. With the arena of production and these four capital strategies, he achieves a specific legitimacy, in this case, Al-Aswany attains the position of a "specific writer" in the Arab literary arena.

A Multiple Case Study on the Reflection of Cultural Capital on Educational Strategies: Private and Public High School Graduates

The main purpose of this study is to describe the cultural capital possessed by graduates of different types of high schools and how that capital shapes educational processes. Accordingly, the study focuses on the cultural capital of graduates of public and private high schools and the strategies they have implemented throughout their educational processes. The research problem of this study is the elucidation of the inequalities created by cultural capital between private and public high school graduates. The study was conducted with a multiple case design due to the qualitative methodology adopted. The sample of the study was selected using maximum variation sampling in accordance with the chosen qualitative method. A semi-structured interview form was administered to 45 participants, 23 of whom had studied in private high schools and 22 of whom had studied in public high schools. MAXQDA 2022 software was used to analyze the data. As a result, it was concluded that private high school graduates and their parents had more institutional cultural capital than public high school graduates. In terms of educational processes, it was observed that participants with higher levels of familial institutional cultural capital preferred schools providing high-quality education rather than schools located closer to home for enrollment. Therefore, it is recommended that state policies be established to remedy the deficiencies of students with low levels of familial cultural capital.

The Caste of Campus Habitus: Caste and Gender Encounters of the First-generation Dalit Women Students in Indian Universities

This article critically examines the university academic spaces and the campus culture determined by a particular form of the dominant habitus which is, in effect, actively excluding the first-generation women students belonging to the marginalized sections of Indian society. As this dominant habitus is constantly reproduced on university campuses, with or without contentions, entering the academic spaces of Indian universities for first-generation Dalit women—who are deprived of both cultural and social capital—is invariably becoming a herculean task. Therefore, this article analyses the concealed forms of dominant campus habitus that structurally create a conducive environment for privileged students and a rigid glass ceiling for first-generation Dalit women students in their journey toward higher education. Notwithstanding the limitations associated with their social status of being first-generation learners, the formations of alternative cultural capital and resilience of the Dalit women students have been analysed from a feminist perspective, proving that one could overcome these social challenges through the acquired cultural capital. The analytical concepts and theoretical frameworks of this article have been developed based on empirical/ethnographic data collected from women research scholars at a prominent university in South India. The narratives were collected in the academic year 2020–2021 through in-depth interviews and focused group discussions.

Intangible Cultural Capital and Mosque-Based Entrepreneurship

This study was conducted at the Jogokariyan Mosque in Jogjakarta, Indonesia, which already has a popular mosque program. The mosque management plays a crucial role in promoting the economic capacity of the surrounding area. One of the flagship programs aimed at improving the local economy is called Masjidpreneur, which focuses on mosque-based entrepreneurship. The objective of this study is to identify the behavioral factors that drive the success of the mosque program. The research method utilized is quantitative descriptive, employing a Likert Scale for self-assessment of both mosque managers and mosque entrepreneurship partners (community members). A comparison of the self-assessment results between mosque managers and mosque partners indicates a convergence of perspectives, with a high level of agreement in the assessment results. Both parties possess several intangible cultural capitals, including a strong commitment to honesty, striving to practice the teachings of Islam in daily behavior, zero tolerance for fraudulent acts, feeling restless when unable to convey the truth, and a strong desire to carry out their responsibilities to the best of their ability. They also look to Prophet Muhammad SAW as an example in their daily lives, exhibiting various attitudes that reflect the strength of intangible cultural capital. The average assessment score obtained is 5.42 out of a scale of 6, indicating that the behavior of mosque economic managers tends to be highly commendable. This finding highlights that the key to the mosque program’s success lies not only in the management of funds but also in the strength of intangible cultural capital.
 Keywords: mosque, entrepreneurship, cultural capital, economic development, local economy

Prominent Poets Of Modern Ghazal in Dera Ismail Khan Research and Critical Review

The civilizational, cultural and historical capital of Dera Ismail Khan is also worthy of attention, but the poetic and literary atmosphere here cannot be ignored in any way.5 Urdu Ghazal, like other regions of Pakistan, has also captured the people of this place. If the office of ancient and modern Ghazal is explored in Dera Ismail Khan, some poets are known at the national level. What are the trends and tendencies of his Ghazals, this article has tried to reveal them. A special study of the Ghazal Poetry of Ghulam Muhammad Qasar, Saeed Ahmed Akhtar, Bahram Sahil, Kawar Ahmed, Tariq Ahmed Nawaz, Tariq Hashmi, Shahab Safdar, Khurshid Rabbani, Tahir Shirazi and Kahlah Ahmed Awan's is the focus of the article under review.