Academic Capital

Examples of Academic Capital in the following topics:

• Academic Skills and Knowledge

  • "Academic capital" is a term used by sociologists to represent how an individual's amount of education and other academic experience can be used to gain a place in society.
  • Much like other forms of capital, social capital, economic capital, and cultural capital, academic capital doesn't depend on one sole factor but instead is made up of many different factors, including the individual's academic transmission from his/her family, status of the academic institutions attended, and publications produced by the individual.
  • Numerous studies have been done involving the idea of academic capital, and scholars have disagreed on what counts as academic capital.
  • However, it seems that most references to academic capital point solely to professional teachers and researchers within higher education.
  • Examine the implications of academia in society, especially in terms of structure, qualifications and academic capital

• Intelligence and Inequality

  • In the most basic sense, academic capital is strongly tied to earning potential.
  • Academic capital is a term used by sociologists to represent how an individual's amount of education and other academic experience can be used to gain a place in society.
  • On an individual level, academic capital influences and informs several important aspects of life.
  • In the most basic sense, academic capital is strongly tied to earning potential.
  • Devise two separate scenarios, one in which educational capital serves as a leveling mechanism and one in which academic capital reproduces inequality

• Feminist Theory

  • Following the establishment of women's academic conferences and coordinated protests of the American Sociological Association's annual meetings during the 1970's, women made significant inroads into Sociology.
  • Feminist Theory uncovered a vast "herstory" of women's (and other minority) academic thinking, writing, and activism, and integrated insights from these essays and studies into the scientific enterprise.
  • Marxist feminists believe that the oppression of women stems primarily from capitalism, which exploits women's labor and is upheld through women's unpaid domestic labor.
  • Therefore, eliminating capitalism would get rid of gender inequalities.Socialist feminists believe that women's oppression is inseparable from class oppression.
  • Therefore, to bring about gender equality, we must work to eliminate both capitalism and patriarchy in all social and natural fields of knowledge and experience.

• Tracking Systems

  • Tracking sorts and separates students by academic ability.
  • Students attend academic classes only with students whose overall academic achievement is the same as their own.
  • Thus, traditionally, students were tracked into academic, general, and vocational tracks.
  • Parents and peers may influence academic choices even more than guidance counselors by encouraging students with similar backgrounds (academic, vocational, ethnic, religious, or racial) to stay together.
  • Since high self-esteem is correlated with high academic achievement, tracking should, theoretically, promote academic success.

• Competition

  • People can compete over tangible resources like land, food, and mates, but also over intangible resources, such as social capital.
  • The two academic bodies of thought on the assessment of competitiveness are the Structure Conduct Performance Paradigm and the more contemporary New Empirical Industrial Organisation model.

• Social Networks

  • The study of social networks is called both "social network analysis" and "social network theory. " Research in a number of academic fields has demonstrated that social networks operate on many levels, from families up to the level of nations, and play a critical role in determining the way problems are solved, organizations are run, and the degree to which individuals succeed in achieving their goals.
  • The network can also be used to determine the social capital of individual actors.
  • In sociology, social capital is the expected collective or economic benefits derived from the preferential treatment and cooperation between individuals and groups.

• Capitalism

  • Capitalism is generally considered by scholars to be an economic system that includes private ownership of the means of production, creation of goods or services for profit or income, the accumulation of capital, competitive markets, voluntary exchange, and wage labor.
  • Economists, political economists and historians have taken different perspectives on the analysis of capitalism.
  • Capitalism is generally viewed as encouraging economic growth.
  • The relationship between democracy and capitalism is a contentious area in theory and popular political movements.
  • Examine the different views on capitalism (economical, political and historical) and the impact of capitalism on democracy

• What is Politics?

  • The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious institutions.

• The Marxist Critique of Capitalism

  • Capitalism has been the subject of criticism from many perspectives during its history.
  • Criticisms range from people who disagree with the principles of capitalism in its entirety, to those who disagree with particular outcomes of capitalism.
  • In this sense they seek to abolish capital.
  • Capitalism is seen as just one stage in the evolution of the economic system.
  • Examine Karl Marx's view on capitalism and the criticisms of the capitalist system

• Networks

  • Research in a number of academic fields has demonstrated that social networks operate on many levels, from families up to the level of nations, and play a critical role in determining the way problems are solved, organizations are run, and the degree to which individuals succeed in achieving their goals.
  • The network can also be used to determine the social capital of individual actors.