scholarly journals Intergenerational Reproduction of Distinctive Cultural Capital: A Study of University Education Obtained Abroad and at Home

2019 ◽  
pp. 135-154
Author(s):  
Martin D. Munk
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
University Education ◽  
At Home

scholarly journals Cultural capital and student engagement in extracurricular activities at a Malaysian University

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Anita Jimmie
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Investment Strategy ◽  
University Education ◽  
Academic Excellence ◽  
Service Projects ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Malaysian Students

<p>How students perceive education influences their extracurricular engagement at university. In this study, I investigate how Malaysian students perceive the importance of a university education and how this influences their choices about extracurricular voluntary activities. Participants included 21 university students (aged 17-25 years old) studying at a university in East Malaysia. Data collection methods included questionnaires, visual data, semi-structured individual and focus group interviews. The findings reveal that while cultural capital plays a significant role in influencing student perceptions of educational success, other forms of capital are also highly valued in the education system. Academic excellence is emphasized, with families often investing in private tuition and other skills to achieve distinction thus giving students a perceived edge over their competitors. The results also show that social capital has a significant influence on students’ involvement in extracurricular activities while at university. The social capital embedded in friendships functioned as an investment strategy and participants relied on this capital to sustain their interest in community service projects or club activities. They also relied heavily on social capital resources embedded in kinship and religious institutions to obtain information and make decisions regarding future career plans and goals.</p>

scholarly journals NÅR KULTUR KOMMER I VEJEN: Kapitalmøder og kulturforståelser på en international uddannelse i Danmark

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisanne Wilken
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
University Education ◽  
International Exchange ◽  
Educational Setting ◽  
Home Team ◽  
Intercultural Interaction ◽  
The Past ◽  
Context Knowledge

Over the past 10-15 years internationalisation has become a buzz word in university education. International institutions as well as national and regional governments promote international exchange of students and teachers, and universities compete to attract foreign students. Internationalisation is generally based on the idea of intercultural compatibility, which implies that ‘scholastic capital’ fairly easily can be transferred from one university context to another and that educational settings can promote and benefit from cultural diversity. With reference to a study of one internationalised educational setting in Denmark, this article explores some of the less recognised challenges in relation to internationalisation of university education. Inspired by Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital and Gregory Bateson’s concept of framing, the article argues that the combination of differences in cultural capital and differences in locally embedded ‘context knowledge’ may produce obstacles to fruitful intercultural interaction. It argues, moreover, that the interactions between students are to a large extent based on an unequal relationship between a home-team and a foreign team rather than on an equal relationship between different nationalities. The obstacles this creates are, to a large extent, unacknowledged, because individuals tend to interpret differences as ‘national differences’.

Family Social, Cultural and Economic Resources’ Effect on the Affordability of University Education in Russia

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-65
Author(s):  
Куканова ◽  
Viktoriya Kukanova ◽  
Крупеникова ◽  
L. Krupenikova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
University Education ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Economic Potential ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual

In this article considers the factors of accessibility of higher education in Russia. By studying the problem of accessibility to higher education in the Russian society, it was identified two main criteria that are important for admission to higher education: social and cultural capital of the individual and the social and economic potential of his family. Also, accessibility of higher education is not only opportunity to go to university, but also to be able to go through the entire studying period. The main difficulties hindering the completion of education, is the difficulty in the studying of teaching material and in adaptation to loads, it is reasons related to the cultural capital of the family.

Tominaga our Contemporary

1993 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-252
Author(s):  
T. H. Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
University Education ◽  
Adequate Account ◽  
British Council ◽  
The Past ◽  
Chu Hsi ◽  
At Home

Just supposing that the British Council were able to offer lecture tours by the world's great minds of the past, I am sure that names like Aquinas, Chu Hsi or Dōgen would be able to pack an auditorium even now. But in the pub afterwards we would probably find them less easy company, not quite at home in our own times. Reading Tominaga Nakamoto (1715–46), however, one gets the extraordinary but quite palpable feeling of encountering an intelligence every bit as alert and critical as any product of a modern university education – no doubt precisely because by the standards of his own day he was largely selfeducated. To find the entire surviving slim corpus of the writings of this remarkable genius rendered into English by the head of one of our most respected departments of Religious Studies is gratifying indeed, and one hesitates to qualify praise of such a welcome achievement with a note of criticism, especially when the translation is prefaced by a lengthy introduction giving within a limited compass a more than adequate account of Tominaga's all too brief life.

scholarly journals Factors Associated with the Regularity of Physical Exercises as a Means of Improving the Public Health System in Vietnam

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 3828 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quan-Hoang Vuong ◽  
Anh-Duc Hoang ◽  
Thu-Trang Vuong ◽  
Viet-Phuong La ◽  
Hong Nguyen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Communication ◽  
Health System ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Public Health System ◽  
University Education ◽  
Average Height ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Physical Exercises ◽  
At Home

Being ranked among the most sedentary countries, Vietnam’s social public health is challenged by the rising number of overweight people. This study aims to evaluate factors associated with the regularity of exercise and sports (EAS) among Vietnamese people living in the capital city of Hanoi, using data collected from a randomized survey involving 2068 individuals conducted in 2016. Physical exercises and daily sports are considered a major means for improving the Vietnamese social public health system by the government, families, and individuals. Applying the baseline-category logit model, the study analyzed two groups of factors associated with EAS regularity: (i) physiological factors (sex, body mass index (BMI)) and (ii) external factors (education, health communication, medical practice at home). Females with a university education or higher usually exercise less than those with lower education, while the opposite is true for males. The study also shows that those with a higher BMI tend to report higher activity levels. Additionally, improved health communication systems and regular health check-ups at home are also associated with more frequent EAS activities. These results, albeit limited to only one location in Vietnam, provide a basis for making targeted policies that promote a more active lifestyle. This, in turn, could help the country realize the goal of improving the average height of the population and reducing the incidents of non-communicable diseases.

scholarly journals Sociocultural determinants of place of birth among Sudanese women

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 3220
Author(s):  
Samia S. Abdulmageed ◽  
Mustafa K. Elnimeri
Keyword(s):  
Health Facility ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
University Education ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
Health Seeking ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
At Home

Background: Maternal health has been accounted as challenge to the public health policy makers around the globe, which has more commonly been threaten by the cultural and social forces. The aim of this study was to investigate the sociocultural determinants of health-seeking behavior of Sudanese women from Sharq-Alneel Locality regarding the place of delivery.Methods: A cross-sectional community based study was conducted from June 2017- January 2018 using face-to-face structured questionnaire to 576 Sudanese women age of 15-49 years from 4 Administrative Units. A multistage cluster sampling technique was adopted. Binary and multinomial logistic regression models were used to analyse the results.Results: Rural women respondents were 329 (57%). A 147 (28.3%) of the studied population gave birth at home at least once. A 110 (20.8%) women respondents preferred delivery at home. Of those home deliveries, complications occurred to 42 (26.9%) compared to the one occurred to women 114 (73.1%) who delivered in health facility. Circumcision among respondents was 80.7% and had insignificant association with complications occurred during delivery. Multinomial analysis showed women with no education were 33.5 times more likely (O.R=33.5, CI=9.8-114.0, p<0.001), primary education (O.R=6.4, CI=2.7-15.2, p<0.001), secondary (O.R=4.9, CI=2.1-11.5, p<0.001) to seek home delivery compared to those who obtained university education. Financial reasons for delivering at home were were 11.5 (O.R=11.5, CI=2.5-53.7, P=0.002) times, while nearby (distance to health facility) as a reason for delivering at home were 3.7 (O.R=3.7, CI=1.1-13.0, P=0.04) times more likely relative to those who reported staff competency as a reason for delivering at health facility.Conclusions: Age, residence area, number of children, education, financial income, distance to health facility, and source of decision for women’s place of delivery were significant determinants of deliveries at home. Special attention is needed at community level for health education towards culture and believes affecting women’s decision on delivery at home. To promote reproductive health of women and improve quality of care giving by health personnel.

scholarly journals Experience at home and innocence abroad: social and cultural capital in Machado de Assis's Esaú e Jacó and Henry James's the ambassadors

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
pp. 78-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethany Beyer
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Henry James ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Machado De Assis ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
Key Characters ◽  
At Home

This study examines two literary worlds fashioned by epic authors Machado de Assis and Henry James. In the novels Esaú e Jacó (1904) and The Ambassadors (1903), the writers explore the theme of ambassadorship. In these two texts, key characters act as emissaries. Councilor Aires, Lambert Strether, and Sarah Pocock discover that ambassadorial service brings with it many complication Each of them fulfills his or her mission in a particular way and does so with difs. fering motives. For these three individuals, access to and interpretation of information becomes decisive in fulfilling their respective commissions. This information circulates in distinct ways, yet the ability to access and understand the information depends on each ambassador's social and cultural "capital", as can be seen in the theories of Pierre Bourdieu.

scholarly journals Cultural capital and student engagement in extracurricular activities at a Malaysian University

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Anita Jimmie
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Investment Strategy ◽  
University Education ◽  
Academic Excellence ◽  
Service Projects ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Malaysian Students

<p>How students perceive education influences their extracurricular engagement at university. In this study, I investigate how Malaysian students perceive the importance of a university education and how this influences their choices about extracurricular voluntary activities. Participants included 21 university students (aged 17-25 years old) studying at a university in East Malaysia. Data collection methods included questionnaires, visual data, semi-structured individual and focus group interviews. The findings reveal that while cultural capital plays a significant role in influencing student perceptions of educational success, other forms of capital are also highly valued in the education system. Academic excellence is emphasized, with families often investing in private tuition and other skills to achieve distinction thus giving students a perceived edge over their competitors. The results also show that social capital has a significant influence on students’ involvement in extracurricular activities while at university. The social capital embedded in friendships functioned as an investment strategy and participants relied on this capital to sustain their interest in community service projects or club activities. They also relied heavily on social capital resources embedded in kinship and religious institutions to obtain information and make decisions regarding future career plans and goals.</p>

scholarly journals 1MALAYSIA CONCEPT: ITS EFFECTIVENESS TO IPT STUDENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (14) ◽  
pp. 196-207
Author(s):  
Muhammad Fuad Othman ◽  
Zaheruddin Othman ◽  
Mohamad Ainuddin Iskandar Lee Abdullah ◽  
Fairol Halim ◽  
Abdul Rahman Abdul Aziz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Education System ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
University Education ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The University ◽  
At Home

This research discusses the effectiveness of the 1Malaysia Concept among university students. It analises whether the 1 Malaysia concept gave any effects on the values of unity among these students. This study employed a qualitative methodology that used questionnaires. Results showed that the majority of the students have been impacted by the 1Malaysia concept. However, some of the respondents stated that they were not impacted by this concept in their daily lives as students. Thus, efforts must be taken to enhance the values of national unity among university students. Efforts must start at the at-home and pre-school levels. It was also recommended that reforms must take place in the university education system through all programs to give exposure towards a more open and inclusive community which then will inculcate national unity.

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