scholarly journals The Cogs and Wheels of Authenticity: How Descriptive and Evaluative Beliefs Explain the Unequal Appreciation of Authentic Products

2021 ◽  
pp. 073112142110571
Author(s):  
Sebastian Weingartner ◽  
Patrick Schenk ◽  
Jörg Rössel
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Apple Juice ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
High Status ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hedonic Evaluation ◽  
Evaluative Beliefs

In times of cultural omnivorousness, authentic products are highly valued by high-status consumers. The article scrutinizes the social and individual preconditions for attributing hedonic and economic value to authentic products. Taking the concept of cultural capital as a starting point, it argues that cues indicating a product’s authenticity affect taste and price evaluations only if individuals perceive authenticity cues correctly (descriptive beliefs) and regard authenticity as an important product feature (evaluative beliefs). This interplay of descriptive and evaluative beliefs explains the appreciation of authentic products. The model is tested by combining an experimental tasting of apple juice samples with a survey. We find that cues of authenticity causally influence the hedonic evaluation of products only for consumers with both strong descriptive and evaluative beliefs. Attribution of economic value depends on descriptive beliefs only. In addition, such beliefs are socially structured: descriptive beliefs correlate with higher formal education, whereas evaluative beliefs covary with highbrow cultural practices.

Deviance as Pedagogy: From Nondominant Cultural Capital to Deviantly Marked Cultural Repertoires

2014 ◽  
Vol 116 (8) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
High Status ◽  
Marginalized Youth ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Cultural Repertoires ◽  
Meaningful Experiences ◽  
The Cost

Background/Context Pierre Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital has been employed extensively in sociological, educational, and anthropological research. However, Bourdieu's conceptualization of cultural capital has often been misread to refer only to “high status” or dominant cultural norms and resources at the cost of overlooking the meaningful and productive practices of nondominant and marginalized cultural communities. Focus of Study By reconceptualizing Cohen's politics of deviance, this paper leans on post-structuralist thinkers to develop a conceptualization of the cultural repertoires of marginalized communities, hereafter referred to as deviantly marked cultural repertoires, that places at the center labeled practices of deviance. It is posited that in these labeled deviant cultural practices—which are often overlooked, shunned, and ignored—are valuable and meaningful experiences of learning and development. Research Design Using scenes from the HBO series The Wire as a cultural text, a materialist analysis is conducted to demonstrate empirically the pedagogically rich processes of deviantly marked cultural repertoires. Conclusions This paper argues for a research agenda on the learning and development present in the often overlooked, shunned, ignored, and marked/labeled practices of deviance as a way to explore the transformative pedagogical possibilities in marginalized youth cultures.

scholarly journals Framing Sálvame: Public debates on taste, quality and television in Spain

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reinald Besalú ◽  
Mercè Oliva ◽  
Óliver Pérez-Latorre
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Legal Issue ◽  
Regulatory Body ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Celebrity Gossip ◽  
Working Class Women

Abstract The main aim of this article is to analyze the social circulation of discourses on non-hegemonic cultural practices, in particular, on what is called “trash TV”, and how they are connected to struggles over cultural and social hierarchies. To do so, it takes a specific event as starting point: the injunction that the CNMC (the Spanish broadcasting regulatory body) filed against Mediaset (a commercial TV operator) to adjust the contents of Sálvame Diario (a celebrity gossip program frequently associated with “trash TV”) to the requirements of what is known as the “child protection time slot”. This paper uses constructionist framing to analyze how this event was discussed by different social actors. Our analysis shows that while the CNMC and the press painted the conflict as a legal issue, Sálvame and social media users focused their discussion on the social acceptability of celebrity gossip media and their viewers (specifically working-class women).

scholarly journals Family Firms as Institutions: Cultural reproduction and status maintenance among multi-centenary shinise in Kyoto

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 793-831 ◽  
Author(s):  
Innan Sasaki ◽  
Davide Ravasi ◽  
Evelyn Micelotta
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
High Status ◽  
Expressive Function ◽  
Cultural Integrity ◽  
The Social ◽  
High Social Status

Our study investigated how multi-centenary family firms in the area of Kyoto – collectively known as shinise – maintain a high social status in the community. Our analysis unpacks the socio-cultural practices through which the ongoing interaction among these actors re-enacts and reproduces the social order that ascribes shinise a distinct social standing in exchange for their continued commitment to practices and structures that help the community preserve its cultural integrity and collective identity. By doing so, our findings trace a connection between status maintenance and the expressive function that a category of firms performs within a community. At the same time, our study reveals a dark side of high status, by showing how their commitments lock shinise in a position of ‘benign entrapment’ that may impose sacrifices on family members and severe limitations to their personal freedom.

Tastes and practices in three Australian cultural fields: television, music and sport

2018 ◽  
Vol 167 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Rowe ◽  
Tony Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Multiple Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Capital Theory ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
And Cluster Analysis ◽  
Cultural Hierarchies

This article introduces the Themed Section of Media International Australia, ‘Tastes and practices in three Australian cultural fields: television, music and sport’, which presents selected findings of the 2014-2015 survey of Australian cultural practices conducted as part of the Australian Research Council project Australian Cultural Fields: National and Transnational Dynamics (DP140101970). It briefly discusses the social organisation of the production of consumption of Australia in the period between the national cultural policies Creative Nation (1994) and Creative Australia (2013). The Introduction then outlines the methodology underlying the Australian Cultural Fields survey that, in building on the approach of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, was developed to assess how far entrenched cultural hierarchies and inequalities have been displaced by broadened patterns of access to arts and culture. Of particular concern is the role of traditional and new forms of cultural capital in differentiating patterns of cultural consumption and participation across relations of class, gender and ethnicity, which the distinctive survey design and administration seek to capture in the Australian context. Bringing together the methods of Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and Cluster Analysis, each article highlights specific aspects of the relations between cultural tastes, practices, and social positions in contemporary Australia via an engagement with contemporary debates in cultural capital theory. The contributions on television (by Tony Bennett, Modesto Gayo, and David Rowe), music (Ben Dibley and Modesto Gayo) and sport (Modesto Gayo and David Rowe) address the dynamics of these Australian cultural fields, while also indicating the significance of their research findings for studies of other nationally-constituted cultural fields, as well as the contested play of cultural capital within nations and in the transnational/global sphere.

scholarly journals Appropriation of Mobile Cultural Resources for Learning

2012 ◽  
pp. 10-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norbert Pachler ◽  
John Cook ◽  
Ben Bachmair
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Formal Learning ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Mobile Complex

This article proposes appropriation as the key for the recognition of mobile devices—as well as the artefacts accessed through, and produced with them—as cultural resources across different cultural practices of use, in everyday life and formal education. The article analyses the interrelationship of users of mobile devices with the structures, agency and practices of, and in relation to what the authors call the “mobile complex”. Two examples are presented and some curricular options for the assimilation of mobile devices into settings of formal learning are discussed. Also, a typology of appropriation is presented that serves as an explanatory, analytical frame and starting point for a discussion about attendant issues.

Creating an image of people with disabilities in formal education. Analysis of the textbooks used in the chosen European countries

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 28-38
Author(s):  
Marzanna Pogorzelska
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Social Climate ◽  
Teaching Material ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Definition Of

Creating an image of people with disabilities in formal education is an important element of educating young people into a full and unbiased understanding of the needs and reality of these people. Consequently, it is an element of creating a social climate around people with disabilities and influencing state policy in this area. Therefore, I find it extremely important to analyse and compare ideas worked out in different countries in order to correctly assess our own situation and find inspiring and applicable solutions. In the text, I focused on one component of the system of formal education, i.e. selected textbooks used in Poland and Sweden in which I highlighted their disability-related content. The starting point for the analysis was the definition of disability and explanation of the social identity theory which provided the framework for the research questions. The presented analysis and comparison of the chosen teaching material, fragmentary as it, might form the basis for further investigation in this area.

scholarly journals Cultural capital and public relations

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-43
Author(s):  
Alexander Manterys
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Special Role ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Worth

This article focuses on problems with correlating a value system to human activity. The author approaches analyzing this issue in terms of cultural capital. Subject to examination is the key component of social order, which can be described as “developing relations of the highest and lowest order”, as orientation towards oneself of one’s community in a social group or network. This work attempts to define what social capital consists of in terms of privileged and legitimized cultural practices. Presumably a culture of common values bears self-worth if it can be materialized within the boundaries of various types of relations. This allows for predicting trends of change in interpersonal relationships, by means of generalizing the results and conducting comparative analysis. Highlighted is the fact that such analysis makes sense if it were to be conducted in terms of cultural capital. As such, a special role is assigned to cultural competence. The ability and/or skills in practically using cultural achievements under certain conditions, with the goal of converting them into other types of capital later down the line, are especially valuable. Also noted is the fact that an understanding of cultural capital, as well as its transformations, is vital for analyzing actual practices which reflect the processes of the “achievements, approval or rejection, reproduction or transformation” dynamic. The author confirms the conclusion which had already been drawn by foreign scientists who are well-known in this field of knowledge, namely that there exists a certain pattern: either society brings forth specific channels for the flow of class cultures with their impenetrable boundaries, their peculiar and somewhat autonomous standards of purpose (of taste), or a dilution of class distinctions occurs. This inevitably has an effect on the decline of the role of cultural capital, and therefore on belonging to the elite. A hypothesis is brought forth about the need to define a person’s place within social networks, their affiliation with those who are typically considered to be members of “exclusive cultures”. Otherwise a connection to such networks implies the “lowest level of cultural competence” and an unfavorable place in the social hierarchy.

scholarly journals Scientific Competence in Developing Countries: Determinants and Relationship to the Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 12439
Author(s):  
José Mauricio Chávez Charro ◽  
Isabel Neira ◽  
Maricruz Lacalle-Calderon
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Scientific Competence

In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Agenda 2030 to guarantee sustainable, peaceful, prosperous, and just life, establishing 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). According to this declaration, pursuing the path of sustainable development requires a profound transformation in how we think and act. People must have scientific competences—not only knowledge of science, but also skills, values, and attitudes toward science that enable them to contribute to the goals proposed. This overall approach, known as Education for Sustainable Development (EDS), is crucial to achieving the SDGs. Scientific competences not only depend on what students learn in their countries’ formal education systems but also on other factors in the environment in which the students live. This study aims to identify the factors that determine scientific competence in students in developing countries, paying special attention to the social and cultural capital and the environmental conditions in the environment in which they live. To achieve this goal, we used data provided by PISA-D in the participating countries—Cambodia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Paraguay, and Senegal—and multilevel linear modelling. The results enable us to conclude that achieving scientific competence also depends on the social and cultural capital of the student’s family and on the cultural and social capital of the schools. The higher the score in these forms of capital, the greater the achievement in sciences.

scholarly journals Appropriation of Mobile Cultural Resources for Learning

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norbert Pachler ◽  
John Cook ◽  
Ben Bachmair
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Formal Learning ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Mobile Complex

This article proposes appropriation as the key for the recognition of mobile devices — as well as the artefacts accessed through, and produced with them — as cultural resources across different cultural practices of use, in everyday life and formal education. The article analyses the interrelationship of users of mobile devices with the structures, agency and practices of, and in relation to what the authors call the “mobile complex”. Two examples are presented and some curricular options for the assimilation of mobile devices into settings of formal learning are discussed. Also, a typology of appropriation is presented that serves as an explanatory, analytical frame and starting point for a discussion about attendant issues.

Socio-cultural Resource for Kazakhstan Modernization

2012 ◽  
pp. 74-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Stavinskaya ◽  
E. Nikishina
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Cultural Features

The opportunities of the competitive advantages use of the social and cultural capital for pro-modernization institutional reforms in Kazakhstan are considered in the article. Based on a number of sociological surveys national-specific features of the cultural capital are marked, which can encourage the country's social and economic development: bonding social capital, propensity for taking executive positions (not ordinary), mobility and adaptability (characteristic for nomad cultures), high value of education. The analysis shows the resources of the productive use of these socio-cultural features.

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