Status Consumption and Negotiation of Tastes: Anchoring on Ethnic Capital

This study examines status consumption and socio-cultural tensions between wealthy Turkish indigenes newly enriched Kurdish migrants in Şanlıurfa, an underdeveloped city Turkey. The article focuses on ethnicity, which enables the construction negotiation of consumer identities (re)production distinctions competing groups under conditions marketization. Ethnic capital, a subcategory social cultural refers to dispositions, rituals, skills ethnic group its members serves as source power reproduce distinctions. findings contribute literature by revealing that, context where modernity is not completely entrenched, capital can explain scope competitive struggles. Consumers still remain attached their they move different positions field consumption. It has been found that see themselves having superior qualities—and yet need improve—and try reflect this emulating necessarily ‘the’ or ‘an’ other but lifestyle