cultural capital

Examples of cultural capital in the following topics:

• Social Mobility

  • In this way, a person's economic, cultural, human, and social capital can contribute to their chances of being upwardly (or downwardly) mobile.
  • Social mobility can be enabled to varying extents by economic capital, cultural capital, human capital, and social capital.
  • Economic capital includes a person's financial and material resources, such as income and accumulated wealth.
  • Cultural capital includes resources ranging from holding a graduate degree to having a grasp of a group's customs and rituals, both of which may confer an advantage in job markets and social exchanges.
  • These types of capital facilitate mobility by providing access to opportunities and the tools to acquire wealth and status.

• Intelligence and Inequality

  • In the most basic sense, academic capital is strongly tied to earning potential.
  • Students who do best in school are not always the most intelligent, but are usually culturally competent and sociable.
  • The term educational capital is a concept that expands upon the theoretical ideas of French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu who applied the notion of capital to social capital, cultural capital, and symbolic capital.
  • Pierre Bourdieu and Basil Bernstein explored how the cultural capital of the dominant classes has been viewed throughout history as the "most legitimate knowledge. " How schools choose the content and organization of curriculum and instructional practices connects scholastic knowledge to dynamics of class, gender, and race both outside and inside our institutions of education.
  • Devise two separate scenarios, one in which educational capital serves as a leveling mechanism and one in which academic capital reproduces inequality

• Types of Social Mobility

  • Social mobility can be enabled to varying extents by economic capital, cultural capital, human capital, and social capital.
  • Economic capital includes a person's financial and material resources, such as income and accumulated wealth.
  • Cultural capital includes resources ranging from holding a graduate degree to having a grasp of a group's customs and rituals, both of which may confer an advantage in job markets and social exchanges.
  • Social capital includes the advantages conferred by one's social network, such as access to professional opportunities and insider knowledge.
  • These types of capital facilitate mobility by providing access to opportunities and the tools to acquire wealth and status.

• 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

• Protestant Work Ethic and Weber

  • In contrast to Marx's "historical materialism," Weber emphasized how the cultural influences embedded in religion could be a means for understanding the genesis of capitalism.
  • Additionally, Weber observed that both ascetic Protestantism and capitalism encouraged cultural practices that reinforced one another.
  • Instead, he viewed it was part of a cultural complex that included the following:
  • Instead of being viewed as morally suspect, greedy, or ambitious, financially successful believers were viewed as being motivated by a highly moral and respectable philosophy, the "spirit of capitalism. " Eventually, the rational roots of this doctrine outgrew their religious origins and became autonomous cultural traits of capitalist society.
  • Thus, Weber explained the rise of capitalism by looking at systems of culture and ideas.

• Culture and Society

  • Culture is what differentiates one group or society from the next; different societies have different cultures.
  • Material and nonmaterial aspects of culture are linked, and physical objects often symbolize cultural ideas.
  • A metro pass is a material object, but it represents a form of nonmaterial culture (namely capitalism, and the acceptance of paying for transportation).
  • For instance, the high culture of elites is now contrasted with popular or pop culture.
  • In this sense, high culture no longer refers to the idea of being "cultured," as all people have culture.

• 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.
  • The designation is applied to a variety of historical cases, which vary in time, geography, politics, and culture.
  • Economists, political economists and historians have taken different perspectives on the analysis of capitalism.
  • Capitalism is generally viewed as encouraging economic growth.
  • Examine the different views on capitalism (economical, political and historical) and the impact of capitalism on democracy

• Capitalism in a Global Economy

  • Some thinkers argue that in the last few decades trends associated with globalization have increased the mobility of people and capital.
  • Information, goods, ideas, and cultural norms are able to spread more quickly around the world than ever before, largely due to innovations and price drops in the telecommunications industry.
  • Although international trade has always existed, some thinkers argue that a number of trends associated with globalization have caused an increase in the mobility of people and capital since the last quarter of the 20th century.
  • Today, these trends have bolstered the argument that capitalism should now be viewed as a true world system, given that all national economies trade with capitalist states and are therefore influenced by capitalist policies.
  • Globalization refers to the increasing global relationships of culture, people, and economic activity.

• Subcultures

  • A subculture is a culture shared and actively participated in by a minority of people within a broader culture.
  • In sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies, a subculture is a group of people with a culture that differentiates themselves from the larger culture to which they belong.
  • A culture often contains numerous subcultures, which incorporate large parts of the broader cultures of which they are part; in specifics they may differ radically.
  • Additionally, sociologists study the ways in which these symbols are interpreted by members of the dominant culture.
  • Businesses often seek to capitalize on the subversive allure of subcultures in search of "cool," which remains valuable in selling of any product.

• Welfare State Capitalism

  • Companies sponsored sports teams, established social clubs, and provided educational and cultural activities for workers.
  • However, even at the peak of this form of welfare capitalism, not all workers enjoyed the same benefits.
  • Business-led welfare capitalism was only common in American industries that employed skilled labor.
  • This is an example of welfare capitalism in that it involves a business providing for its employees.
  • Discuss how welfare capitalism impacts the worker and the business, in terms of costs and benefits for both