Examples of social capital in the following topics:
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- 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.
- Social capital includes the advantages conferred by one's social network, such as access to professional opportunities and insider knowledge.
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- Karl Marx saw capitalism as a progressive historical stage that would eventually be followed by socialism.
- Among those wishing to replace capitalism with a different method of production and social organization, a distinction can be made between those believing that capitalism can only be overcome with revolution (e.g., revolutionary socialism) and those believing that structural change can come slowly through political reforms to capitalism (e.g., classic social democracy).
- Karl Marx saw capitalism as a progressive historical stage that would eventually stagnate due to internal contradictions and be followed by socialism.
- Marxists define capital as "a social, economic relation" between people (rather than between people and things).
- In Karl Marx's view, the dynamic of capital would eventually impoverish the working class and thereby create the social conditions for a revolution.
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- Vertical social mobility refers to moving up or down the so-called social ladder.
- 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.
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- 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 examples demonstrate how social mobility is not simply based on economic capital, but also social and cultural capital.
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- Social status refers to one's standing in the community and his position in the social hierarchy.
- One's social status is determined in different ways.
- Social status, or the social sphere in which one belongs, can be changed through a process of social mobility.
- According to Bourdieu's 1979 work Distinction, social capital is just as significant a factor in social status as economic capital.
- According to Bourdieu's 1979 work Distinction, social capital is just as significant a factor in social status as economic capital.
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- For example, it is not stated in the curriculum that children learn social skills at school, but as a result of being around and working with other children, socialization occurs.
- Socialization is slowly transforming into a manifest function, especially within special education and working with children on the autism spectrum, who suffer from serious social skill deficits.
- 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.
- Educational capital can be utilized to produce or reproduce inequality, and it can also serve as a leveling mechanism that fosters social justice and equal opportunity.
- Devise two separate scenarios, one in which educational capital serves as a leveling mechanism and one in which academic capital reproduces inequality
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- Economic sociology is the study of the social causes and social effects of various economic phenomena.
- Economic sociology is the study of the social causes and social effects of various economic phenomena.
- Sociology came of age in the late nineteenth century, at the same time as capitalism and modernity were taking root.
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is representative of classical economic sociology in that it uses sociological data on religion to explain the economic phenomenon of northern Europe's embrace of capitalism.
- Contemporary economic sociology emphasizes the social consequences of economic exchanges, the social meanings they involve, and the social interactions that they facilitate or obstruct.
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- As a political movement, socialism includes a diverse array of political philosophies, ranging from reformism to revolutionary socialism, from a planned economy to market socialism.
- Just like in capitalism, the means of production generate profit; however, that profit would be used to remunerate employees or finance public institutions, not to benefit private owners.
- Socialists critique capitalism, arguing that it derives wealth from a system of labor exploitation and then concentrates wealth and power within a small segment of society that controls the means of production.
- Socialists argue that socialism would allow for wealth to be distributed based on how much one contributes to society, as opposed to how much capital one owns.
- Discuss the various implementations of socialism, from reformism to revolutionary socialism
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- 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 the state, its formal mechanisms, and capitalist societies has been debated in many fields of social and political theory, with active discussion since the 19th century.
- Examine the different views on capitalism (economical, political and historical) and the impact of capitalism on democracy
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- 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