•This is the first time that cultural capital has become quantified.•Cultural capital was used to test farmers’ intention toward water conservation.•Cultural capital was equally good at illumination ...intention and behavior.•Cultural capital could be a serious competitor to the current behavioral models.
The objective of this paper is to empirically test the explanatory ability of cultural capital, which is generally considered more qualitatively and rarely quantified, for farmers’ water conservation behavior. In applying this approach, we reflect the growing interest in the role of culture and identity in influencing farmer’s decision-making. The study design involved a cross-sectional survey of growers in the Aleshtar county in Western Iran. The sample consisted of 360 farmers. The results of person correlation test showed significant relationships between all forms of cultural capital and both intention to behave and behavior. Furthermore, Structural Equation Model analysis revealed that the embodied and objective forms of capital predicted about 43% of the variance in farmers’ intention. Moreover, the institutionalised, objective, intension and family experiences predicted about 45% of the variance in farmers’ behavior. Based on the research results, recommendations for water conservation were provided.
In this essay, we develop a framework for understanding the evolving relationships between technology, work, and family. We focus primarily on the temporal, spatial, and relational boundaries between ...work and family and the ways in which technology is changing boundary management practices. We suggest that the ubiquity and power of communications technologies require active technology management and, specifically, the development of a form of cultural capital that we call digital cultural capital. We are concerned that the technological changes currently underway may deepen and reinforce social and economic inequalities in new and unanticipated ways. We endeavor to synthesize and connect the disparate bodies of research on these nascent issues and lay out an agenda for future lines of inquiry.
Recentemente, as discussões envolvendo a temática da sustentabilidade em todo o mundo, passaram a focar os padrões de consumo da sociedade como um dos principais causadores dos problemas ...socioambientais, inclusive nas atividades de turismo. Nesse contexto, o objetivo do estudo é investigar se as variáveis perspectiva de tempo, capital cultural e orientação para o consumo sustentável, influenciam no comportamento sustentável em viagens de turismo por natureza. A pesquisa é quantitativa e descritiva, visando analisar as relações entre as variáveis que compõe os construtos teóricos do consumo sustentável. Foi realizada uma pesquisa survey com 313 turistas, a partir da qual foram aplicadas análises multivariadas de dados. Os resultados mostram que os três construtos analisados (consumo sustentável, perspectiva de tempo e capital cultural) apresentam influências positivas no comportamento sustentável do turista. Os resultados podem contribuir para o processo de tomada de decisão gerencial nos setores públicos e privados, ajudando a estabelecer um planejamento e estratégias de marketing para o desenvolvimento dos destinos turísticos, assim como, orientar o comportamento sustentável do consumidor. O estudo aprofunda os conhecimentos sobre à teoria do comportamento sustentável e colabora para o entendimento das mudanças de hábitos e práticas de consumo sustentáveis em viagem de turismo por natureza.
In this article, we address whether and how contemporary social classes are marked by distinct lifestyles. We assess the model of the social space, a novel approach to class analysis pioneered by ...Bourdieu's Distinction. Although pivotal in Bourdieu's work, this model is too often overlooked in later research, making its contemporary relevance difficult to assess. We redress this by using the social space as a framework through which to study the cultural manifestation of class divisions in lifestyle differences in contemporary Norwegian society. Through a Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) of unusually rich survey data, we reveal a structure strikingly similar to the model in Distinction, with a primary dimension of the volume of capital, and a secondary dimension of the composition of capital. While avoiding the substantialist fallacy of predefined notions of ‘highbrow’ and ‘lowbrow’ tastes, we explore how 168 lifestyle items map onto this social space. This reveals distinct classed lifestyles according to both dimensions of the social space. The lifestyles of the upper classes are distinctly demanding in terms of resources. Among those rich in economic capital, this manifests itself in a lifestyle which involves a quest for excitement, and which is bodily oriented and expensive. For their counterparts rich in cultural capital, a more ascetic and intellectually oriented lifestyle manifests itself, demanding of resources in the sense of requiring symbolic mastery, combining a taste for canonized, legitimate culture with more cosmopolitan and ‘popular’ items. In contrast to many studies’ descriptions of the lower classes as ‘disengaged’ and ‘inactive’, we find evidence of distinct tastes on their part. Our analysis thus affirms the validity of Bourdieu's model of social class and the contention that classes tend to take the form of status groups. We challenge dominant positions in cultural stratification research, while questioning the aptness of the metaphor of the ‘omnivore’, as well as recent analyses of ‘emerging cultural capital’.
In recent years growing sociological interest in new forms of cultural distinction has led some to argue that the advantages previously conveyed by the consumption of ‘high’ culture ‘or ...‘omnivorousness’ are being overwritten by the possession of what has been termed ‘emerging cultural capital’. So far, though, this term has only been discussed in passing within empirical work and remains in need of further analytical specification. This special issue seeks to both critically interrogate and develop this concept by bringing together the work of leading cultural sociologists around four key themes: the role of age and generation in the formation of cultural capital; the power of visual display for distinction; the significance of new elite cultures; and the need for methodological pluralism to apprehend the expressions and mechanisms of distinction. This editorial introduction outlines the descriptive terrain on which the concept of emerging cultural capital has rested until now before exploring the common themes that sit across all five papers in the special issue.
This study aims to explore the effect of cultural capital on academic motivation in the context of involution in China. The study will employ an ecological perspective to understand the interaction ...between college students and the involuted Chinese social context and job market, and the interaction mechanism between cultural capital and academic motivation. The concept of involution refers to the decreased “effort-to-reward ratio” in the education system, which has been impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak and the popularity of internet companies for college graduates. Cultural capital, as defined by Bourdieu, refers to a form of capital that can be converted into economic capital and is institutionalized in the form of educational credentials. The study will consider the three forms of cultural capital (objectified, embodied, and institutionalized) and their impact on academic motivation at the school, family, and individual levels. The results of this study will provide insight into the complex relationship between cultural capital and academic motivation in the involuted context in China and will have implications for understanding the phenomenon of study and employment involution.
The aim of this paper is to reconstruct Bourdieu’s theory of sociology of education, which is the theory of the foundation of “general anthropology of power and legitimacy”, from the perspective of ...symbolic violence, and then to explore the possibility of cultural capital as a condition for the generation of “habitus as a structuring structure” against power and legitimacy established by the symbolic violence. Firstly, it is confirmed in this paper that Bourdieu’s sociology of education had the task of elucidating “the reproduction mechanism of mental structure and social structure.” It also clarified that Reproduction was the most important work for the establishment of Bourdieu’s “a total anthropology,” and one of the central issues of Reproduction was to establish the theory of habitus as a theory of power. At the same time, this paper also suggested the limit of the theory of habitus at this point. Secondly, Bourdieu’s writings on the sociology of education (The inheritors, Reproduction, The state nobility) are reconstructed from the perspective of symbolic violence that establishes power and legitimacy, and three issues about the possibility of cultural capital to reconstruct a habitus to counter symbolic violence are raised. That is, (1) the equal distribution of cultural capital, (2) the transformation of cultural capital, and (3) the counter to the ordering of cultural capital. Thirdly, the result of examining Bourdieu’s views on these three issues led to the following three points. That is, (1) the allocation of cultural capital generates habitus that resists delegation and the monopoly of culture, (2) the transformed cultural capital counters cultural arbitrariness, (3) the plurality of pedagogy, ability and success counters to the ordering of cultural capital. In conclusion, the acquisition of transformed cultural capital meant the acquisition of critical literacy against power and legitimacy, and suggested that it has the potential for a reflective reconstruction of “habitus as a structuring structure.”
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.
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