Cultural capital can act as an asset for migrants in a host society, and it be negotiated validated contact with the majority minority population groups. These negotiations occur discursively, such social media discussions. This study analyses members’ discursive positioning discussions that take place Facebook groups aimed at two of Finland’s larger groups, Estonian- Russian-speaking. The ethn...

The recent changes in the U.S. wage structure are often linked to the new wave of capital-embodied information technologies. The existing literature has emphasized either the accelerated pace or the skill-bias of embodied technical progress as the driving force behind the rise in wage inequality. A key, neglected, aspect is the \general purpose" nature of the new information technologies. This ...

Most growth models assume capital is homogeneous. This contradicts intuition and empirical evidence that the majority of technology is embodied in the capital stock. Classic papers from the late 1950’s and 1960’s show that non-optimization models display the same asymptotic growth rates whether technology is embodied (vintage capital) or disembodied. This paper uses new numerical optimization t...

Most growth models assume capital is homogeneous with regard to technology. This contradicts intuition and empirical evidence that the majority of technology is embodied in the capital stock. Berger (2001) showed that neoclassical vintage capital (embodied technology) and non-vintage capital (disembodied technology) models have different convergence rates, although identical steady state growth...

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...

Capital goods are embodied knowledge of how to produce. Therefore, capital development is a learning process, through which knowledge gets embodied in new capital goods. Because the necessary knowledge is dispersed among many people who must interact to communicate their particular, often tacit knowledge, capital development is a social process. Because this interaction takes time and continual...

In this short paper we describe a robotic setup to study the self-organization of conceptualisation and language. What distinguishes this project from others is that we envision a robot with speci c cognitive capacities, but without resorting to any pre-programmed representations or conceptualisations. The key to this all is self-organization and enculturation. We report preliminary results on ...