The Influence of Social and Cultural Capital on Student Persistence

Author(s):  
H. Kay Banks

Using a mixed-methods approach, this chapter examines the use of the social and cultural capital questionnaire to measure capital, combined with student narrative experiences to gauge student persistence. An analysis of the interviews from the participants' experiences provided four themes: faculty/professors, family, self-motivation, and finances. In this study, social capital was more positively related to school success as a factor of persistence than cultural capital. The findings of this research study contributes to this growing body of literature by providing a unique survey instrument designed to assess the influence of social and cultural capital.

2012 ◽  
pp. 74-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Stavinskaya ◽  
E. Nikishina

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.


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarciso Feijó Da Silva ◽  
Helena Maria Scherlowski Leal David ◽  
Fabiana Ferreira Koopmans ◽  
Donizete Vago Daher

Objetivo: compreender e estabelecer relação de sentido entre os conceitos fundamentais de Pierre Bourdieu e o campo da Enfermagem. Metodologia: estudo de natureza reflexiva realizado a partir do conteúdo teórico utilizado na disciplina de Pierre Bourdieu e a produção social da cultura, do conhecimento e da informação, do curso de doutorado do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro e do II Seminário “Pierre Bourdieu e a produção social da cultura, do conhecimento e da informação”. Resultados: O campo da Enfermagem foi identificado como um espaço onde são construídos saberes e desenvolvidas práticas em torno dos objetos que justificam sua existência. O lugar ocupado pelos profissionais neste campo, por sua vez, mostrou-se dependente da aquisição de capital e de sua acumulação por parte dos profissionais inseridos no mesmo. Conclusão: os conceitos de habitus, campo social, capital social e cultural permitiram reconstruir sentidos sobre o campo da Enfermagem produzindo reflexão sobre a relevância do mesmo para a área das ciências da saúde.Descritores: Enfermagem, ciências da saúde, conhecimento.BUILDING POSSIBILITIES IN BOURDIEU FOR ANALYSIS OF THE FIELD OF NURSINGObjective: to understand and establish a relation of meaning between the fundamental concepts of Pierre Bourdieu and the field of Nursing. Methodology: a reflexive study based on the theoretical content used in the discipline of Pierre Bourdieu and the social production of culture, knowledge and information, the doctorate course of the Postgraduate Program in Nursing of the State University of Rio de January and the II Seminar “Pierre Bourdieu and the social production of culture, knowledge and information”. Results: The field of Nursing was identified as a space where knowledge is developed and practices developed around the objects that justify its existence. The place occupied by professionals in this field, in turn, was dependent on the acquisition of capital and its accumulation by the professionals inserted in it. Conclusion: the concepts of habitus, social field, social and cultural capital allowed us to reconstruct meanings about the field of Nursing, producing reflection on its relevance to the area of health sciences.Descriptors: Nursing, healths ciences, knowledgeCONSTRUYENDO POSIBILIDADES EN BOURDIEU PARA ANÁLISIS DEL CAMPO DE LA ENFERMERÍAObjetivo: comprender y establecer relación de sentido entre los conceptos fundamentales de Pierre Bourdieu y el campo de la enfermería. Metodología: estudio de naturaleza reflexiva realizado a partir del contenido teórico utilizado en la disciplina de Pierre Bourdieu y la producción social de la cultura, del conocimiento y de la información, del curso de doctorado del Programa de Postgrado en Enfermería de la Universidad del Estado de Río de Janeiro Enero y del II Seminario “Pierre Bourdieu y la producción social de la cultura, del conocimiento y de la información”. Resultados: El campo de la Enfermería fue identificado como un espacio donde se construyen saberes y desarrolladas prácticas en torno a los objetos que justifican su existencia. El lugar ocupado por los profesionales en este campo, a su vez, se mostró dependiente de la adquisición de capital y de su acumulación por parte de los profesionales insertados en el mismo. Conclusión: los conceptos de habitus, campo social, capital social y cultural permitieron reconstruir sentidos sobre el campo de la Enfermería produciendo reflexión sobre la relevancia del mismo para el área de las ciencias de la salud.Descriptores: Enfermería, ciencias de la salud, conocimiento.


Author(s):  
Ismael Puga

Using a mixed-methods approach based on discussion focus groups and panel surveys of the Longitudinal Social Study of Chile, this chapter demonstrates that Chilean’s neoliberal economic order is not legitimized by the vast majority of the population. Instead, the author argues that social norms are in serious conflict with the prevailing socioeconomic order. Within Chilean society, both citizens and social analysts are prone to agree with the existence of a “neoliberal consensus” due to the strategic adaptation of social practices that take place within a socioeconomic order that most individuals accept as a given. As a consequence, a “fantasy consensus” emerges in Chilean society in order to stabilize the social economic order, thus avoiding collective mobilization and social change. In this scenario, the protest waves that Chilean society has faced since 2011 offer additional proof that the “fantasy consensus” has experienced serious fissures, thus opening a window of opportunity to delegitimize Chile’s neoliberal order in the country.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ebere Ume Kalu ◽  
Lp Dana

Purpose This study is aimed at providing a deduction on the necessity of social and cultural capital for entrepreneurial outcomes on a community-wide scale. Design/methodology/approach There is a drift from an individualised form of entrepreneurship to community-based entrepreneurship with a grand focus on social needs of current and emergent nature. This study is both archival and exploratory and has pictured culture and communality as drivers that are needful for enterprising communities. Findings This paper finds communality, social network, social capital and trust as push-factors for community-based entrepreneurship and development drives. Originality/value This study is an original exposé on the Abia Ohafia community’s Model of community-based entrepreneurship which thrives on strong institutions (like the Age Grade System) and age-long practices that have built trust and stability. This local community through its networks, culture and communalities creates relationships, rational innovation, consensual leadership and participatory followership under which resources, opportunities and solutions are deliberately advanced for meeting social and community purposes.


Author(s):  
Daniel B. Cornfield

This chapter considers the pathways to becoming an artistic social entrepreneur. Previous research on social entrepreneurs has emphasized the impact of one's stock of human, social, and cultural capital on one's mobilization of requisite resources for launching and sustaining a social enterprise. Less sociological attention has been given to the influence of career-biographical factors, such as family, religion, education, and pivotal career turning points that may inspire and compel one to become a social entrepreneur and to envision and shape one's social enterprise, let alone an artistic social enterprise. The profiles of four artistic social entrepreneurs in this chapter illustrate how their strategic and risk orientations and career pathways shape the social enterprises they envision and influence their assumption and enactment of their roles as artist activists.


Author(s):  
Manfredi Valeriani ◽  
Vicki L. Plano Clark

This chapter examines mixed-methods research, which is an approach that involves the integration of quantitative and qualitative methods at one or more stages of a research study. The central idea behind mixed-methods research is that the intentional combination of numeric-based methods with narrative-based methods can best provide answers to some research questions. The ongoing attempts to construct a simple and common conceptualization of mixed-methods provide a good indicator of the status of mixed-methods itself. mixed-methods research has emerged as a formalized methodology well suited to addressing complex problems, and is currently applied throughout the social sciences and beyond. Nowadays, researchers interested in combining quantitative and qualitative methods can benefit from the growing knowledge about the epistemological foundations, essential considerations, and rigorous designs that have been advanced for mixed-methods research.


2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 186-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oki Rahadianto Sutopo ◽  
Steven Threadgold ◽  
Pam Nilan

In this article, we draw on a study of the transition experiences of young Indonesian musicians to argue that the social capital of creative youth may be productively understood in relation to reflexivity and temporality. This is particularly important if they move to other locations to further their careers. In brief, we offer three key contributions to social capital debates. First, social capital—as defined by Bourdieu—is most important as a valuable form of capital to deal with both actual and anticipated Beckian risk. Second, in fields of creative struggle, the development of social capital is closely related to possession of strategy and reflexivity as a form of cultural capital. Third, social capital cannot be operationalized effectively by youth without the element of timing and the temporal capacity to reflexively recognize and seize opportunities as they arise at critical moments of a creative career.


2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrien Pype

Like other cities around the globe where the state organizes exams, Kinshasa’s exétat shows the degree to which social difference and urban livelihood are intimately connected. However, despite the assumption that diplômés master book knowledge, recent changes in the practice of the exétat have transformed the meaning of a diplômé, turning that figure into a yankee, i.e., someone who possesses street knowledge that comes from experience with the informal and the illegal. More abstractly, the identity of a diplômé has become a signifier for the opposite of its taken-for-granted signified. Kinois society publicly acclaims the social and cultural capital attached to school degrees; however, most recent diplômés have obtained their degree through bribes and organized cheating.


2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-311
Author(s):  
Todd McCardle

Situated within scholarly research on tracking, within-school racial segregation, and student career aspirations, this qualitative study examines how three Black students in the mainstream program at a magnet high school in the Southeastern United States discussed their career aspirations. Results indicate that while each participant aspired to attend college, their isolation from the social and cultural capital needed to successfully apply for colleges and their academic status within their school would serve as hindrances in gaining access to institutions that would help them accomplish their career aspirations. The data reveal a need to challenge educational policy such as tracking that has historically targeted and marginalized students of color and continues to provide unnecessary obstacles as they seek to reach their ambitions.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosangela F. Santos ◽  
Mírian Oliveira ◽  
Carla Curado

Purpose Knowledge sharing among individuals from different teams is rare. Agile methods encourage only the exchange of tacit knowledge within teams. This study aims to analyse the influence of trust, norms of cooperation and reciprocity on tacit and explicit knowledge sharing among individuals from different software development teams. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected using a cross-sectional survey involving 205 individuals working in software development teams. The authors adopted a mixed-methods approach involving partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). Findings PLS-SEM shows: the antecedents have different influence in tacit knowledge sharing (TKS) and in explicit knowledge sharing (EKS); trust influences directly TKS, and it only influences EKS indirectly, while reciprocity influences TKS directly and EKS both directly and indirectly; norms of cooperation directly influence TKS, and they only influence EKS indirectly. Overall, the fsQCA findings support PLS-SEM results: TKS contributes to EKS; reciprocity or trust is a sufficient condition for TKS and EKS; norms of cooperation are a sufficient condition for TKS; larger firms without high levels of reciprocity and trust cannot expect TKS and EKS. The quantitative and qualitative results are aligned. Research limitations/implications The results cannot be generalisable because snowball sampling was used, and most of the respondents were Brazilians. Practical implications This study should help managers and scholars: to appreciate the relevancy of TKS among individuals using agile methods to nurture EKS and to understand the different effects of reciprocity, trust and norms of cooperation on both TKS and EKS. Originality/value Considering three constructs, this study uses a mixed-methods approach to investigate the potential of the relational dimension of social capital theory to leverage TKS and EKS, to overcome the limitations of agile methods. The originality of this study regards that it shows the constructs of relational social capital influencing TKS and EKS differently.


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