Cultural Capital of Russia

Capital Market Development in Russia

• issuance of 147,000,000 privatization checks (vouchers) as freely transferable bearer securities, accepted by the State as payment for shares of privatized enterprises (huge educational effect, redistribution of ownership and creation of the securities market); • massive transformation of state-owned enterprises into joint-stock companies and issue of shares of privatized enterprises; • vouch...

the influence of social and cultural capital on efl students critical thinking skills

the major aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social and cultural capital and efl students’ critical thinking skills. this study takes this relationship in to account to see if people with different sociocultural status are different regarding their critical thinking skills. to this end, 160 university students majoring in english language and literature, english trans...

Cultural Capital and Educational Attainment

Human Capital Externalities: Evidence from the Transition Economy of Russia

The paper tests for the existence of human capital externalities, more precisely those stemming from higher education, using a micro-level approach: the Mincerian wage regression augmented with the average level of education in a local geographical area (city). To solve identification problems arising due to endogeneity of average education the study exploits a natural experiment provided by th...

Cultural capital theory vs . cultural policy beliefs : How Pierre

This paper explores the possible uses of Bourdieu‟s cultural capital theory in the making of French state cultural policy. It focuses on the following paradox: this theory had an important if not predominant impact on the intellectual background and expertise of cultural policy, but only limited effects on its actual orientations. To understand this paradox, I go back to the 1960s when both cul...