Essays about: "cultural and symbolic capital"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 essays containing the words cultural and symbolic capital.

1. 1. Education, Employability and Imagining the Future: A Minor Field Study of Goals and Motivations in a South African Small-Scale Development Programme

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Melina Pettersson; Julia Rönnbäck Finocchio; [2023]
   Keywords : Youth unemployment; Development; Education; Inequality; South Africa; Employability; Horizons of opportunity; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world, and that shows in the distribution of opportunities amongst South Africans. In the face of political failures to deliver improvements for unemployed youth NGO projects become more important avenues for young people to acquire resources needed to improve their lives. READ MORE

3. 2. Digital Diplomacy: A study of social media and the changing role of the diplomatic service

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Frida Theander; [2021]
   Keywords : Digital Diplomacy; Public Diplomacy; Symbolic Capital; Power relations; Diplomatic core; Cultural diplomacy; Field of Struggle; Field Theory; Pierre Bourdieu.; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This study concerns digital diplomacy and the changing role of the diplomatic profession. By constructing a survey followed by descriptive in-depth interviews, this study demonstrates that Swedish diplomats have overall a positive view on social media’s role within the profession. READ MORE

4. 3. Pushing buttons: an ethnographic interview study on toxicity in online gaming cultures

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Centrum för genusvetenskap

   Author : Ruben Melin; [2021]
   Keywords : toxicity; online gaming; symbolic violence; cultural domination; masculinity;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study is to research toxicity through how it was understood, experienced, and described by game enthusiasts. The toxicity described is further explored through theories of cultural and symbolic domination and through feminist game studies and the lens of masculinity theory. READ MORE

5. 4. Materialising a Black Belt: A cultural analytical approach to clothing and capital in martial arts

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Author : Rebecca van der Steen; [2021]
   Keywords : material culture; martial arts; capital; Bourdieu; affect; mana; social hierarchy; global-local identity; karate clothing; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis analyses the material culture of karate clothing in Sweden, namely the karate belt(obi) and the karate uniform (gi). It employs ethnographic methods to observe how these objects reveal themselves in observation and interview in the karate practise hall (dojo), and uses a Bourdieuan framework to analyse the different types of capital which emerge; cultural, social and symbolic. READ MORE

6. 5. The creative spark : A qualitative analysis of students’ pathways to preparatory art schools using Bourdieusian concepts

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier

   Author : Lisa Högkil; [2020]
   Keywords : Bourdieu; Symbolic capital; Art student trajectories; Illusio; Libido;

   Abstract : This qualitative study focuses on trajectories leading to preparatory art schools. It departs from in-depth interviews of considerable length with a small number (9) of students in preparatory art schools in Stockholm. READ MORE