This study looks at symbolic violence in Alex Urban's novel The Kingfisher Secret. In work Secret, the author investigates emergence of and analyzes Bourdieu's capital habitus. To assist understanding violence, this research employs Pierre idea, as well habitus, field, theory. Wellek Warren's extrinsic method, which literary material is examined from a social perspective. descriptive qualitativ...

In this comment I review Goldthorpe’s recent portrayal of the substance ofBourdieu’s views on the issues of cultural capital, education and class reproduction, byfocusing on three major set of claims that Goldthorpe imputes to Bourdieu. Using morerecent and more representative examples of Bourdieu’s work on education and classreproduction, I show that Bourdieu did not hold the p...

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...

Bourdieu's (1987 [1979]) theorization of cultural capital treats attitudes, preferences, and behavior as forms of embodied cultural capital. As such, these are often considered parallel forms of embodied cultural capital that receive different empirical manifestations in various works (Lamont and Lareau 1988), without attention to the implications of choosing one operationalization of cultural ...

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 ...

The aim of present study is sociological study of the role of cultural capital of Iranian families on their students' acceptance in university. This is a descriptive post-event survey. The statistical population of study includes all students of Shrift University of Technology who have been studying in 2015-2016 (n= 1013). The sample size was 350 students selected according to Cochran table thr...

Feminist theorizing in the sociology of sport and physical culture has progressed through ongoing and intense dialogue with an array of critical positions and voices in the social sciences (e.g., Judith Butler, R.W. Connell, Michel Foucault). Yet, somewhat surprisingly, the work of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu—arguably one of modern sociology’s “most important voices of social critique an...

BOURDIEU’S CONSTRUCT OF HABITUS AND CRITIQUE The current sociological understanding of habitus expressed in the work of Pierre Bourdieu as its key academic construct emphasizes the importance of habits for human action. Bourdieu understands human behavior as fundamentally cultural; rejecting behaviorist view of cognition and action as related to a stimulus—response chains, the French sociologis...