Socio-cultural Capital Research Articles

FEATURES OF THE FORMATION OF MANAGEMENT CAPITAL IN THE CONDITIONS OF INTELLECTUALIZATION OF SOCIAL-LABOR RELATIONS OF THE MODERN BUSINESS SPACE

The article is devoted to the formation of managerial capital in the modern business space, which plays an important role in the activities of economic entities at the micro and macro levels. The importance of the processes of intellectualization of production relations of economic entities is proved, especially in the context of the formation of competitive human capital. Based on the analysis of theoretical approaches, the essence and main components of managerial capital as the intellectual capital of the management team are outlined. The author analyzes the concept of intellectual capital of business space, which is presented as its intangible asset (values) that can increase the market value and competitiveness of organizations. A modern view of intellectual capital has made it possible to distinguish its three components: human, organizational and client (partner, stakeholder) types of capital. It is proved that intellectualization of the business environment is an objective condition for economic management in the context of finding ways of economic growth through highly professional teamwork of the enterprise's personnel in the context of a professional management system and formation of managerial capital. The author's own vision of the structure of management capital is proposed, consisting of human capital of the management team, its emotional capital and socio-cultural capital (management culture). The human capital of the management team is considered as a system that includes education and experience, health, creativity, corporate knowledge, understanding of external and internal information. Attention is focused on the basic principles of forming the emotional capital of the organization and the management team through the presence of emotional intelligence. The socio-cultural capital is proposed to be considered in the form of managerial culture, which includes the capital of social and labor relations and communication; norms and values; motivation; equality, diversity and inclusiveness of the management team. The author substantiates the impact of managerial capital on the intellectualization of social and labor relations, which provides for the possibility of improving the quality of working life of each employee and achieving success of economic entities in the face of complex transformational challenges. The category of “quality of working life” is considered as the main result of the functioning of a professional management system and the corresponding management capital. The author proposes a system of factors influencing the quality of working life, which are caused by the intellectualization of social and labor relations in the modern business space.

All in the Family: Sex, Social Capital, and the French Intellectual Elites

Abstract: This article explores the dynamics of the contemporary French academic elites by applying Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of "social capital" and "cultural capital" to two recent highprofile memoirs, Camille Kouchner's La familia grande and Pierre Nora's Jeunesse . Both memoirs reveal central features of this world at different points in time, the mid-twentieth century (Nora) and the early twenty-first (Kouchner): tight kinship and social connections forged through intense social life, a small range of acceptable occupations excluding business, different forms of sexual license, and the exploitation of weaker members of the group, women and children. The article draws attention, first, to the historical endurance of aristocratic models in France's republican elite circles and, second, to the gender dynamics at work in this instantiation of sociocultural capital.

Anabolic steroid coaching certification in India: The role of capital in digital fitness spaces

Background Anabolic androgenic steroid coaches (ASCs) provide tailored drug-related advice to clients for a fee. While ASCs operate worldwide, the scant and emerging research available has largely focused on ASCs within a Western context, overlooking the Global South. This exploratory study aimed to investigate ASCs further, specifically in India, where anecdotal evidence suggests an ASC “boom.” Method A digital ethnography was conducted over a 12-month period. To analyse, convey and situate key findings, we draw upon Bourdieu’s seminal work on sociocultural capital. Results A dominance of companies and individuals in India were willing to certify ASCs, with certification primarily aimed towards bodybuilding competition preparation. To promote ASC certification, various marketing strategies were used to attract potential ASCs, including the promotion of ASC accreditation through well-known Indian bodybuilders, who shared courses on their Instagram accounts, drawing upon their sociocultural and body capital to attract potential customers. A form of institutional capital underpinned the accreditation process, reaffirming ASC accreditation legitimacy within the community. Finally, ASC accreditation contributed to chemical capital. Conclusion Drawing on various aspects of capital, ASC potentially shape anabolic androgenic steroids use in India. Future research should review the course material offered in ASC accreditation to ensure they are reliable.

Chinese ornaments on the Siti Inggil Keraton Kasepuhan building from a Religious Moderation perspective

This research aims to analyze the Chinese ornaments in the Siti Inggil building of the Kasepuhan Palace and the values of religious moderation. This study uses a qualitative method. Meanwhile, the approaches used are historical, anthropological, and semiotic approaches. The Chinese ornaments attached to the Siti Inggil building of the Kasepuhan palace in Cirebon align with the values of religious moderation that are growing and developing in Indonesia. Some of the ornaments on the Siti Inggil building come from cultures outside of Islam, showing the Sultan's moderate attitude and containing the values of religious moderation. First, Siti Inggil implies tolerance and accommodation towards Islamic, Hindu, and Chinese cultures within it. This means there is a willingness to understand and be ready to live with people of different religions and cultures. Second is ceramics, which implies the socio-cultural capital of religious moderation. This is because dialogue between culture and Islam has become necessary and requires good dialectics to occur to balance (tawazun) in social life in interaction with social culture

Exploring meaning-making in instructional technology: A phenomenological study of english language teaching students

Abstract The benefits that different technologies provide to the educational processes have been experienced by educators for years. The advantages hat teachers gain from computers, the internet, different software and technologies that change and develop every passing day have caused students to develop different skills and have also made it a necessity for teachers to be able to use these systems. As a result of these requirements, as a result of the studies of the Higher Education Council and the Ministry of National Education, which regulate higher education in Turkey, courses addressing technology education and the integration of technology into the course have been added to the process. This study aims to understand the technology-based meanings developed by teacher candidates taking the Instructional Technologies (IT) course. Within the scope of the study designed according to Husserl's phenomenology understanding, the study was conducted by 12 English Language Teaching undergraduate students and 3 researchers. It has been observed that the socio-cultural capital of the primary subjects of the study, English Language Teaching students, has shaped their lives along with their technological capital in the post-truth period. It has been seen that gods with high technology skills have created digital victims through digital world tools. It has been observed that people who were victims in the past can become resisters who engage in passive resistance against the digital world, while individuals who were not victims in the past but were aware of their victimization can become characters who actively resist the process.

Buildings, books, and memories: Analysing the culture of reading anglophone romance in Pakistan

ABSTRACT The practice by Pakistani women of reading anglophone romance-genre novels set in Regency-era England is rooted in the cultural memory of their colonial past. The Regency-era past provides a credible space for the romantic imagination that takes on distinctive postcolonial nuances in Pakistan. The readers involved in this research shared a fascination with the buildings around them that were constructed during the British Raj, and the experience of reading old, browned copies of Georgette Heyer novels. The materiality of the romance genre in Pakistan informs and reinforces readers’ disposition to regard Regency-era historical novels as sociocultural capital. The study elaborates that these readers create a form of positive postcolonial nostalgia by finding parallels between Regency-era England and aspects of contemporary Pakistani society. This perceived similarity is rooted in the patriarchal social structures and archaic cultural practices that persist in 21st-century Pakistan, making the historical setting more relatable to them.

The Influence of Socio-Cultural Capital on Efforts to Prevent and Address Violence Against Women: Case Study of Women Victims of Violence in Bandung Regency

Violence against women is a complex social issue with diverse causes. Economic, social, and cultural factors contribute to the occurrence of such violence. Analyzing social and cultural capital is a way to understand the root causes of violence against women. This research aims to analyze the influence of social and cultural capital on efforts to prevent and address violence against women in Bandung Regency. The method used is descriptive qualitative. The research findings indicate that the social capital influencing efforts to prevent and handle violence comes from the social networks of women victims of violence, including family, religious groups, and the Bale Istri community. However, cultural capital has a low influence on efforts to prevent and handle violence against women. The cultural capital of women victims of violence is still influenced by patriarchal culture, which forms embodied cultural capital based on long-internalized patriarchal norms and values. The internalized practice of patriarchal culture can be altered through gender and violence socialization by Bale Istri, enabling women to develop new embodied cultural capital that supports the prevention and handling of violence against women. Cultural change is an ongoing process that requires a long time; a combination of strong social capital and efforts towards cultural change can overcome various barriers in preventing and addressing violence against women (KtP).

Da'wah Based on Socio Cultural Capital in the Prevention of Radicalism and Religious Conflict

This study focuses on the growth and development of radicalism in the Lamongan Regency area and the forms and variants of co-religious conflicts in the Tuban Regency area. These two focuses do not intend to compare Lamongan and Tuban as study destinations but explore the two regions with different questions. The next focus is the da'wah model based on socio cultural capital in preventing radicalism and religious conflicts in Lamongan Regency and Tuban Regency. This research uses a qualitative approach with the type of grounded theory according to the stages of the type of research. Socio cultural capital is diverse and meaningful, stretching from the potential of natural resources, economy, culture, customs, arts, and religion. The results of the analysis show that the dominant factors that cause the growth of radical ideas in Lamongan Regency are limited religious knowledge and insight, mistakes in choosing teachers, low levels of economic welfare, provocation of online media, sectarianism, disappointment with social, political, economic and legal conditions, and weak government control over educational institutions and pesantren affiliated with radical groups. The form of religious conflict that occurred in Tuban Regency was a peaceful action, which is an action carried out by Muslims without violence in order to address sectarian and communal issues. The socio cultural capital of the Lamongan and Tuban communities has a diversity ranging from the potential of natural resources, economy, culture, customs, arts, and religion, giving birth to five da'wah models for preventing radicalism and religious conflicts. The five da'wah models in question are economic-based, institution-based, village-based mosques, pesantren, and based on local wisdom.

A qualitative study of the dynamics of access to remote antenatal care through the lens of candidacy

ObjectiveWe aimed to explore the experiences and perspectives of pregnant women, antenatal healthcare professionals, and system leaders to understand the impact of the implementation of remote provision of antenatal care during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.MethodsWe conducted a qualitative study involving semi-structured interviews with 93 participants, including 45 individuals who had been pregnant during the study period, 34 health care professionals, and 14 managers and system-level stakeholders. Analysis was based on the constant comparative method and used the theoretical framework of candidacy.ResultsWe found that remote antenatal care had far-reaching effects on access when understood through the lens of candidacy. It altered women’s own identification of themselves and their babies as eligible for antenatal care. Navigating services became more challenging, often requiring considerable digital literacy and sociocultural capital. Services became less permeable, meaning that they were more difficult to use and demanding of the personal and social resources of users. Remote consultations were seen as more transactional in character and were limited by lack of face-to-face contact and safe spaces, making it more difficult for women to make their needs – both clinical and social – known, and for professionals to assess them. Operational and institutional challenges, including problems in sharing of antenatal records, were consequential. There were suggestions that a shift to remote provision of antenatal care might increase risks of inequities in access to care in relation to every feature of candidacy we characterised.ConclusionIt is important to recognise the implications for access to antenatal care of a shift to remote delivery. It is not a simple swap: it restructures many aspects of candidacy for care in ways that pose risks of amplifying existing intersectional inequalities that lead to poorer outcomes. Addressing these challenges through policy and practice action is needed to tackle these risks.

A capitals framework for rural areas: ‘Place-planning’ the global countryside

Set in the context of debates over the future of rural areas, and the role of planning in co-delivering a sustainable, inclusive and resilient countryside, this article considers the value of a place capitals perspective for unpacking, firstly, ‘what makes’ rural places and, secondly, the ways that planning can ensure the protection, enhancement and sensitive use of those capitals. Rural places are presented as composites of built, economic, land-based and socio-cultural capitals and as possessing a ‘spatial energy’ that inheres in the linkages between capitals. Harnessing that ‘spatial energy’ is critical to co-producing better rural places. The paper aims towards a theorisation of rural places and planning that transcends jurisdictional boundaries and the peculiarities of planning systems. Building on existing scholarship, a ‘capitals framework’ is developed that has general applicability: it can be deployed flexibly as a means of understanding the ‘inner workings’ of rural place and as a guide for planning intervention.

Latinity: Rhetoric and Anxiety after Antiquity

This introduction sets the scene for six essays devoted to the study of the discourse of Latin. Despite the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century, Latin remained the dominant code of communication in European society for a millennium. And yet in the minds of many of its most prolific users and commentators, it has experienced a continuous cycle of existential crises. After multiple reappraisals and re-fashionings of Latinity in the early and high Middle Ages, the self-conscious definition of language and its relationship to culture which arose in fourteenth-century Italy led to the bestowal of the much-controverted title of “renaissance” on the ensuing age. But, with respect to Latinity, was (and is) this label a distinction without a difference? Not only in the Quattrocento, but also in earlier and later eras, cultivating “good Latin”, however this was defined, and indeed being seen to cultivate it were matters of the utmost importance, an inexhaustible wellspring of sociocultural capital. Our object here is to study the language of the language itself: the valueattributed to Latin, its standing vis-à-vis other languages, the qualities linked with it, and the issues in which it was implicated. Our remit is Latinity after Antiquity, and the six essays which follow range from late antique North Africa to nineteenth-century Hungary.

Did students learn less during the COVID-19 pandemic? Reading and mathematics competencies before and after the first pandemic wave

ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted classes in spring 2020. Temporary school closures supposedly led to a considerable learning loss, particularly for low-achieving students. Teachers faced challenges of remote learning environments. Students spent less time learning. The present study investigates the competencies of fifth graders in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, using large-scale assessments in reading and mathematics from annual mandatory tests in September (each n > 80,000). Competence scores were slightly lower in 2020 (after 2 months of school closures) compared with the three previous years (–0.07 SD for reading comprehension, –0.09 for operations, and –0.03 for numbers). Regarding mathematics, low-achieving students seem to have a learning backlog that deserves attention in future education. School characteristics such as the average sociocultural capital and the proportion of students with a migration background played a minor role in mediating the schools’ learning loss. Still, lower sociocultural capital was positively associated with larger learning loss in mathematics.

Long-Term Consequences of Repeated School Closures During the COVID-19 Pandemic for Reading and Mathematics Competencies

School closures during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 were associated with attenuated learning gains compared to pre-pandemic years. In Germany, two further pandemic waves led to school closures and periods of remote learning between December 2020 and May 2021. The present study investigates the academic achievement of all incoming fifth-graders in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg before and during the pandemic, using educational large-scale assessment results in reading and mathematics. Each year, the assessments took place at the beginning of the school year in September (each n > 84,000). The comparison of average competence levels in 2021 with pre-pandemic years (2017–2019) indicates that the downward trend that was observed after the first pandemic wave in 2020 came to a halt in the domain of reading and continued at a slower rate in the domain of mathematical operations. Achievements in the mathematical domain of numbers even rebounded to pre-pandemic levels. Longer periods of school closures were associated with larger learning losses. Additional analyses showed larger learning losses for the group of low-achieving students and for schools with less socio-cultural capital. The partial rebound of learning outcomes suggests that most teachers and students successfully adapted to the pandemic situation in 2021. Still, disadvantaged student groups are at high risk of further substantial learning losses due to school closures that may negatively affect their future education. Accordingly, disadvantaged student groups in particular should receive additional support to compensate for the loss of learning opportunities in the classroom.

Infinite Game of Poverty Alleviation (IGPA) and Accumulation of Environmental and Socio-Cultural Capital

Although poverty alleviation has become an infinite game globally since the late 1940s, Sri Lanka has not identified poverty as an issue until recently. The socio-welfare-based economic policies and continuous election-centered poverty alleviation programs push the country into the IGPA, even though the country is accumulated with plentiful natural and socio-cultural resources. Consequently, Sri Lanka struggles with severe economic crises and political chaos, worsening IGPA, which has not been adequately addressed in prevailing academic literature. This study attempts to fill this void by adopting the social-constructivism approach. Nine semi-structured interviews and three focus group discussions were conducted, plus direct observation of the rural landscape of Sri Lanka. Findings indicate IGPA has become an influential determining factor in deciding the potential ruling government, and every government has included IGPA in their political manifesto under different titles. However, the disintegration between rural poverty alleviation and sustainable capitalization led the nation to be retained with IGPA.

“Regaining the Future by Rebuilding the past?”. The Question of Intergenerational Transfer and Production of Cultural, Economic and Social Capital by Women in Poland after the Second World War

In this article I followed the life stories of five Polish women born between 1939–1949. The key question concerned the intergenerational transmission of socio-cultural and economic capitals, inherited and passed by my narrators under the conditions of a socialist state. By answering this question, I took into account three variables: the first concerns the different positions and capitals of narrators and their families before the WW2; the second concerns the war and its destructive impact on the economic situation of the narrators; the third, the most important, concerns (re)building of the capitals of the narrators living in the condition of the socialist state. An in-depth analysis the life stories of the narrators led me to the following conclusions: (1) even though the families of the narrators had only small capitals before WW2, they (re)built them and multiplied, creating conditions for further development of their generational children after the war; (2) the socialist state made educational and professional development possible for the narrators and they took advantage of these opportunities; (3) the narrators were causative in the (re-) construction and transmission of their capitals, also when the socialist state torn by economic and political crises, had failed them.

Социокультурный капитал территории: формирование, использование, воспроизводство

В статье обосновывается необходимость исследования социокультурного капитала территории как совокупности ценностей, значимых и принимаемых социальными группами, осуществляющими свою жизнедеятельность на данной территории, способных приносить экономическую выгоду в процессе вовлечения социокультурного капитала в экономические процессы, происходящие на территории. В качестве основных индикаторов социокультурного капитала территории в статье выделены степень доверия, нормы взаимности, членство в социальных группах и сетях, социальное укоренение. The article substantiates the need to study the socio-cultural capital of the territory as a set of values that are significant and accepted by social groups that carry out their life activities in this territory and canbring economic benefits in the process of involving socio-cultural capital in the economic processes taking placein the territory. The article highlights the degree of trust, norms of reciprocity, membership in social groups and networks, and social rooting as the main indicators of the socio-cultural capital of the territory.

Impression management of South Korean sports stars through image-based social media

This study used netnography and interviews to explore the sociocultural significance of South Korean sports stars’ impression management using social media. The study investigated Instagram, a widely used image-based social media platform. Through netnography, the study analysed Instagram content, and then it conducted interviews with stars for deeper interpretation. The results showed that the impression management strategies used are multifaceted. Some stars use social media to maintain personal connections, through which they create intimacy by sharing details from their daily lives and engaging in ‘self-expression’ to empathize with and relate to fans, which in turn helps them promote sponsored products or companies. Others intentionally create distance by uploading posts related to their economic and sociocultural capital. Sports stars also engage in ‘role model’ and ‘modesty’ strategies by presenting themselves as good examples on and off the field and uploading posts that promote their humility, appealing to South Korean social values.

A Bourdieusian Analysis of the Sociocultural Capital of Chinese International Graduate Students in the United States

For the last decade, Chinese international graduate students (CIGS) have represented the largest portion of international graduate students in the United States. Previous research studies on language barriers and cultural differences have revealed that CIGS experience difficulties in adapting to the American educational system (Zhang-Wu, 2018). Few researchers have critically examined the experiences of CIGS on a more organizational level. In this qualitative study, we analyzed interviews with CIGS utilizing a Bourdieusian (1986a) framework to identify the social and cultural capital (SCC) that CIGS possessed. We argue that SCC concepts can help theoretically and critically examine the experiences of international students as a minority student group in the United States. The results from our in-depth semistructured interviews imply that CIGS are excluded from access to and possession of the SCC necessary to adapt to academic, cultural, and social life in the United States.

COVID-19 Pandemic, Javanese Rituals, and Social Solidarity

The COVID-19 Pandemic has been going on for more than a year in Indonesia. The Indonesian government has been struggling to manage this Pandemic in various ways by implementing health protocols, Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB), and vaccinations. This article discusses the efforts made by the Javanese people in coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic by using literature study methods and observations of the realities that occurred during the Pandemic in Semarang. The discussion focused on cultural practices carried out by Semarang society to overcome the COVID-19 Pandemic, such as the ritual of repelling logs, social care for affected communities, and cooperation in providing personal protective equipment for health workers. Based on this reality, it can be stated that socio-cultural capital is used to cope with the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Influence of an Intercultural Factor on the Formation of Sociocultural Capital of a Polyethnic City

The ideas of managing cultural diversity in the modern world are embodied primarily in the concepts of multiculturalism and interculturalism. Multiculturalism can be defined as ideology, politics and social discourse, which recognizes the legitimacy and value of cultural pluralism, the significance of the diversity of cultural forms. In its turn, this allows to form a single sociocultural space based on the tolerant coexistence of traditional ethnic or national cultures. Interculturalism is based on the dialogical paradigm of coexistence of different cultures: recognition of the heterogeneous nature of cultures, acceptance of the thesis of unity in diversity, identifying cultural diversity as a counterweight to assimilation. On the one hand, universal values create the platform of intercultural interaction within the framework of interculturalism, while on the other hand, there are civic culture and responsibility of ethnic groups for their society. Interculturalism is described as a life resource of a modern multiethnic city, a sociocultural capital that can multiply. Multiculturalism is aimed at preserving minority cultures that causes the conservation of the situation, and interculturalism provides an active and positive dialogue of different cultures with the aim of mutual enrichment. The sociological survey was held in the polycultural Ukrainian city of Melitopol, which has been applying policies and practices of interculturality since 2008. The aim is to analyse the interrelation of interculturality and sociocultural capital. The results indicate that ethnic communities are sufficiently integrated in public space and they are positively perceived by the city community. Therefore, interculturality is a significant resource of sociocultural capital accumulation which can be converted in political capital and it can consolidate a city community.