OBJECTIVE Faced with aging societies, there is an immense need to better understand the nature of volunteering outside advanced Western industrial countries. As a case of a rapidly aging society, we identify robust factors associated with elderly volunteering in Korea in terms of a resource framework. METHODS Data were derived from the Social Statistics Survey conducted by the Korea National ...

This article attempts to study the relationship between cultural capital of the youth with their individual and collective social identities and to scrutinize the correlation between cultural capital and different types of identity. For studying these two constructs (cultural capital and individual and collective identities) Bourdieu, Jenkins and Giddens theories were consulted and for measurin...

in this study the relation between cultural development and social development in i an is studied with secondary analysis method. statistical data of this study is based on previous experimental researches, especially national survey of iranians cultural behaviors in 1378 and national surveys of iranians values and attitudes in 1379 and 1382. for measuring the cultural development, some element...

the aim of this study is to investigate into the relationship between parents' cultural capital and their tendency toward gender discrimination. many analysts and social theorists believe that cultural capital is one of the main factors which determines the cultural, economic, political and social structure. in addition, in this study gender discrimination, is examined so we have used the ...

this paper intends to evaluate cultural capital & social identity of different dimensions of cultural capital through self-description of people. then it may study any correlation of cultural capital with different indexes of social identity. cultural capital in accordance with the viewpoint of borodino has three dimensions including: conceptual dimension, real dimension and finalized dimen...

This article begins by briefly examining the previous literature in this area and focusing on the difficulty associated with defining and measuring cultural capital Next, the term cultural capital is examined in a wider context alongside its relationship with the other capitals defined by Bourdieu. While cultural capital is theoretically convertible into other forms of capital, the overwhelming...

The authors draw on Pierre Bourdieu's theory of cultural reproduction to develop a formal model of the pathways through which cultural capital acts to enhance children's educational and socioeconomic success. The authors' approach brings conceptual and empirical clarity to an important area of study. Their model describes how parents transmit cultural capital to their children and how children ...

This study investigated the digital learning of children living in remote areas of Taiwan and the cultural capital investments made by their parents. The interactive effects between these two factors were then demonstrated to infer the research conclusion. The results obtained were as follows: 1) the current digital learning status of students living in remote areas was satisfactory, although t...