scholarly journals Capital, Social Reproduction, and the Rise of Inequality

2015 ◽  
Vol 70 (01) ◽  
pp. 57-64
Author(s):  
Alexis Spire
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Political Sociology ◽  
Global Analysis ◽  
Capital Social ◽  
Great Merit ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract Thomas Piketty’s book has the great merit of implementing a global analysis of inequality that compares countries and periods. However, he adopts a definition of social class that overlooks the importance of cultural capital. Furthermore, the role of social movements is relatively marginalized in his account, which also focuses on fiscal tools to the detriment of other forms of regulation. Nonetheless, this innovative and important book opens up new avenues of research in the field of political sociology.

scholarly journals Language in social reproduction: Sociolinguistics and sociosemiotics

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 43-81
Author(s):  
Patrizia Calefato
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Roman Jakobson ◽  
New Type ◽  
General Linguistics ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship

This paper focuses on the semiotic foundations of sociolinguistics. Starting from the definition of “sociolinguistics” given by the philosopher Adam Schaff, the paper examines in particular the notion of “critical sociolinguistics” as theorized by the Italian semiotician Ferruccio Rossi-Landi. The basis of the social dimension of language are to be found in what Rossi-Landi calls “social reproduction” which regards both verbal and non-verbal signs. Saussure’s notion of langue can be considered in this way, with reference not only to his Course of General Linguistics, but also to his Harvard Manuscripts.The paper goes on trying also to understand Roland Barthes’s provocative definition of semiology as a part of linguistics (and not vice-versa) as well as developing the notion of communication-production in this perspective. Some articles of Roman Jakobson of the sixties allow us to reflect in a manner which we now call “socio-semiotic” on the processes of transformation of the “organic” signs into signs of a new type, which articulate the relationship between organic and instrumental. In this sense, socio-linguistics is intended as being sociosemiotics, without prejudice to the fact that the reference area must be human, since semiotics also has the prerogative of referring to the world of non-human vital signs.Socio-linguistics as socio-semiotics assumes the role of a “frontier” science, in the dual sense that it is not only on the border between science of language and the anthropological and social sciences, but also that it can be constructed in a movement of continual “crossing frontiers” and of “contamination” between languages and disciplinary environments.

Apprendre à travailler: The uneasy journey of counter-school culture in the country of cultural capital theory

Ethnography ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-495
Author(s):  
Sylvain Laurens ◽  
Julian Mischi
Keyword(s):  
School Culture ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
French Translation ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
Cultural Capital Theory ◽  
French Sociology ◽  
Culture Concept

This paper retraces the journey of Learning to Labour in the French intellectual landscape, by examining the context in which we had this book translated in 2011. We first analyse the slow importation of Willis’s research in France (the originality of the counter-school culture concept is highlighted in light of Bourdieu’s theoretical emphasis on the role of cultural capital in social reproduction) and the conditions that made a French translation possible 30 years after the original’s publication. We then discuss the ways in which this 2011 translation, entitled L’école des ouvriers, collided with French debates on the role of school and the then prevalent postmodern theories. We end by discussing the uses of Willis’s work in contemporary French sociology.

“I Need Help!” Social Class and Children’s Help-Seeking in Elementary School

2011 ◽  
Vol 76 (6) ◽  
pp. 862-882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica McCrory Calarco
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Unequal Opportunities ◽  
Do So

What role do children play in education and stratification? Are they merely passive recipients of unequal opportunities that schools and parents create for them? Or do they actively shape their own opportunities? Through a longitudinal, ethnographic study of one socioeconomically diverse, public elementary school, I show that children’s social-class backgrounds affect when and how they seek help in the classroom. Compared to their working-class peers, middle-class children request more help from teachers and do so using different strategies. Rather than wait for assistance, they call out or approach teachers directly, even interrupting to make requests. In doing so, middle-class children receive more help from teachers, spend less time waiting, and are better able to complete assignments. By demonstrating these skills and strategies, middle-class children create their own advantages and contribute to inequalities in the classroom. These findings have implications for theories of cultural capital, stratification, and social reproduction.

Music Education and Social Reproduction

2015 ◽  
pp. 339-356
Author(s):  
Ruth Wright
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Diverse Students ◽  
Alternative Music ◽  
The Social

This chapter discusses the role of music education in the perpetuation of cycles of unjust hegemonic social reproduction, using Bourdieu’s theory of social reproduction and the roles of education and culture therein. Alternative music pedagogies, such as informal learning, are examined as offering potential to break such cycles by allowing accumulation of two forms of cultural capital—pedagogical and musical capital—by diverse students. An empirical example is used to demonstrate how perceptions of the knowledge legimitation code within which music education operates may be shifted, allowing fewer students to self-identify as “non-elite” and therefore not suited to studying music. Some principles are suggested by which music education might act to break cycles of injustice and in whatever small way act to disrupt the social status quo.

Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards

2021 ◽  
pp. 189-204
Author(s):  
Tom O’Donoghue ◽  
Judith Harford
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Catholic Education ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
National Standards ◽  
School Level ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
Secondary School Level ◽  
The Church

A pluralist, outward-looking approach to Catholic education in Ireland now characterizes some of the latest changes at the level of governance and curriculum. Regarding piety, the first of the two main themes addressed throughout this book, change is also evident. In particular, the manner in which it is promoted and practised in the Catholic secondary schools now is more benignant, personal, ecumenical, and inclusive of those of other faiths than it was in the past. Regarding the second theme considered throughout, namely, the role of the Church historically in favouring at secondary school level those privileged in Irish society socially and economically, the situation is that while expansion of education provision has raised national standards of education, it has not led to the kind of reduction in relative social class inequalities that many believed it could or would. Thus, while so much has changed in relation to second-level schooling in the country from the end of the period 1922–1967 and the move away from the theocratic State, the Church in Ireland still continues to be enmeshed in social reproduction through the position it continues to hold within the nation’s secondary school sector.

scholarly journals Bourdieu: El impacto de una palabra en la investigación de las juventudes / Bourdieu: The impact of a word on youth research

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (25) ◽  
pp. 170-178
Author(s):  
Ernesto Israel Santillán-Anguiano ◽  
Emilia Cristina González-Machado
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
The Social ◽  
Youth Research ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
School Space

Este trabajo ofrece una serie de reflexiones sobre el texto La juventud no es más que una palabra presentada por Pierre Bourdieu en 1978. El principal objetivo de este documento es hacer evidente la vigencia de las ideas del sociólogo francés respecto a la construcción del concepto de juventud como categoría en las ciencias sociales. Para ello, se realizó un análisis de textos para profundizar las ideas asociadas a las desigualdades, el capital cultural, el habitus y el papel del espacio escolar. Como resultados más relevantes se pueden mencionar que: 1) La definición de la juventud es producto de la lucha intergeneracional y por lo tanto arbitraria; 2) el habitus juvenil garantiza la permanencia de la estructura social; 3) el capital cultural incorporado de los jóvenes se encuentra garantizado por el tiempo liberado; 4) el espacio escolar es un campo de privilegios que naturaliza las condiciones de ser joven. This work offers some reflections on the text Youth’ is Just a Word presented by Pierre Bourdieu in 1978. The objective of this document is to make evident the validity of the ideas of the French sociologist regarding the construction of the concept of youth as a category in the social sciences. For this, a text analysis was carried out to deepen the ideas associated with inequalities, cultural capital, habitus and the role of school space. As the most relevant results, it can be mentioned that: 1) The definition of youth is the product of intergenerational struggle and therefore arbitrary; 2) juvenile habitus guarantees the permanence of the social structure; 3) the incorporated cultural capital of young people is guaranteed by time released; 4) the school space is a field of privileges that naturalizes the conditions of being young.

scholarly journals KAPITAL POLITIK DALAM KONTESTASI MEMPEREBUTKAN KEKUASAAN (STUDY KASUS PEMENANGAN PASANGAN SRI HARTINI – SRI MULYANI DALAM PILKADA KABUPATEN KLATEN TAHUN 2015)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-44
Author(s):  
Noer Apptika Fujilestari
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
General Election ◽  
Political Capital ◽  
Capital Social ◽  
Civic Organizations ◽  
Descriptive Research

This research reviews about how Sri Hartini – Sri Mulyani couple optimize their political capital in the winning of Klaten General Election in 2015. The triumph of Sri Hartini– Sri Mulyani has a huge political capital influence. There are some important fundamental  considerations, such as: First, Sri Hartini – Sri Mulyani is a figure who is known in Klaten folk because both of them are the wife of the former Regent of Klaten. Second, Sri Hartini – Sri Mulyani is carried by the winning party of general election that is PDIP and supported by some qualify parties for general election as Nasdem, PPP, Hanura and PKS. Third, Sri Hartini – Sri Mulyani has a high financial which is strength enough. The theory which is used in this research is theory of the political Capital of Pierre Bordieu. This research uses descriptive research methods with qualitative approaching. As for the result of this research is Sri Hartini – Sri Mulyani is a couple with the highest capital accumulation than other spouses. From the four political capitals that consist of economic capital, social capital, cultural capital and symbolic capital Sri Hartini – Sri Mulyani couple has a very strong social capital than other candidate, especially in terms of the network that supports both,  network of non formal and formal. PDIP as the party which brings SriHartini – Sri Mulyani is the party with the highest base mass in Klaten. in other hand, the popularity of Sri Hartini – Sri Mulyani as the wife of a former Regent of Klaten and as political figure of women who be able to take the sympathy of the citizens to choose Sri Hartini – Sri Mulyani as head of their  region. The solidarity of political parties and civic organizations that support the role of klaten local elites are able to muster the mass votes to win the couple Sri Hartini – Sri Mulyani in Klaten Election 2015. Key words : political capital, ekonomic capital, social capital, cultural capital, simbolic capital.

scholarly journals EDUCATION IN THE PUBLIC REPRODUCTION SYSTEM

2021 ◽  
pp. 210-216
Author(s):  
Юлия Олеговна Андрианова
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Reproductive Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Reproduction System ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship

Образование задействовано в системе исторически сложившихся институтов общества, которые организуют социальные, экономические, политические, правовые, нравственные, этические и иные отношения. Статья посвящена анализу места и роли образования в системе общественного воспроизводства, а также определению роли системы образования в системе общественного воспроизводства. Актуальность исследования обусловлена проблемой недооценки системы образования как элемента воспроизводственного процесса, способного обеспечить социально-экономическое развитие страны. Научная новизна полученных результатов отражена в выявлении сущности и качества взаимосвязи образования и общественного воспроизводства, выделении соответствующего функционального поля. Education is involved in the system of historical institutions of society that organize social, economic, political, legal, moral, ethical and other relations. The article is devoted to the analysis of the place and role of education in the system of social reproduction, as well as to the definition of the role of the education system in the system of social reproduction. The relevance of the study is due to the problem of underestimating the education system as an element of a reproductive process that can ensure the socio-economic development of the country. The scientific novelty of the obtained results is reflected in the identification of the essence and quality of the relationship between education and social reproduction, the allocation of the corresponding functional field.

scholarly journals Social Capital of Business in Hybrid War Conditions: Concept, Components, Functions

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 275-285
Author(s):  
Iryna Zhyhlei ◽  
Dmytro Zakharov
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Capital Social ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Business Structures ◽  
Hybrid War ◽  
Definition Of

The main approaches to the definition of the category “social capital” in the historical context are considered. Elements of social capital (social norms, social network, trust) have been defined as well as its main functions have been identified, which were formed during the evolution of this concept. The influence of the hybrid war on the formation of social capital in the context of public trust in business structures in Ukraine is determined. The role of social networks as a source of creation, accumulation and restoration of social capital has been investigated. The importance of the existence of network links that affect the socialization of society and the expansion of its communicative borders in the conditions of the development of modern socio-economic relations has been noted.

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