Networked Collective Symbolic Capital Revisited

2022 ◽  
pp. 426-440
Author(s):  
Hong-Chi Shiau
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Identity Performance ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Photo Sharing ◽  
Interactional Processes

This study attempts to illustrate identity performance via the display of symbolic capital by Taiwanese gay men through photo-sharing experiences on Instagram. For Taiwanese gay men, photo-sharing experiences on Instagram have become a significant venue where they can interact with selected publics through performing various personae. This study has classified roles with various forms of cultural capital as well as clarifying how distinction is meticulously maneuvered among collapsed contexts. Through ethnographic interviews with 17 gay male college students from Taiwan and textual analysis of their correspondence though texting on Instagram, this study first contextualizes how the interactional processes engaged in on Instagram help constitute a collective identity pertaining to Taiwanese gay men on Instagram. The photo-sharing experiences are examined as an identity-making process involving the display of various symbolic capital, illuminating the calculated performance of taste and the collective past oppressed by the heteronormative society. The conclusion offers an alternative sociological intervention that goes beyond the notion of digital narcissism to help understand how the cultural capital on the presumption of photo-sharing experiences is invested.

Networked Collective Symbolic Capital Revisited

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-33
Author(s):  
Hong-Chi Shiau
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Identity Performance ◽  
Gay Male ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Photo Sharing ◽  
Male College ◽  
Interactional Processes

This study attempts to illustrate identity performance via the display of symbolic capital by Taiwanese gay men through photo-sharing experiences on Instagram. For Taiwanese gay men, photo-sharing experiences on Instagram have become a significant venue where they can interact with selected publics through performing various personae. This study has classified roles with various forms of cultural capital as well as clarifying how distinction is meticulously maneuvered among collapsed contexts. Through ethnographic interviews with 17 gay male college students from Taiwan and textual analysis of their correspondence though texting on Instagram, this study first contextualizes how the interactional processes engaged in on Instagram help constitute a collective identity pertaining to Taiwanese gay men on Instagram. The photo-sharing experiences are examined as an identity-making process involving the display of various symbolic capital, illuminating the calculated performance of taste and the collective past oppressed by the heteronormative society. The conclusion offers an alternative sociological intervention that goes beyond the notion of digital narcissism to help understand how the cultural capital on the presumption of photo-sharing experiences is invested.

scholarly journals Navigating the London-French Transnational Space: The Losses and Gains of Language as Embodied and Embedded Symbolic Capital

Languages ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Saskia Huc-Hepher
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Third Space ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Community Identity ◽  
Everyday Language ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Conversion Rates ◽  
Transnational Space

In this article, an interdisciplinary lens is applied to French migrants’ reflections on their everyday language practices, investigating how embodied and embedded language, such as accent and London-French translanguaging, serve as both in-group and out-group symbolic markers in different transnational spaces. Key sociological concepts developed by Pierre Bourdieu are deployed, including field, habitus, hysteresis and symbolic capital, to assess the varying symbolic conversion rates of the migrants’ languaging practices across transnational spaces. A mixed-methodological and analytical approach is taken, combining narratives from ethnographic interviews and autobiography. Based on the data gathered, the article posits that the French accent is an embodied symbolic marker, experienced as an internalised dialectic: a barrier to inclusion/belonging in London and an escape from the symbolic weight of the originary accent in France. Subsequently, it argues that the migrants’ translanguaging functions as a spontaneous insider vernacular conducive to community identity construction in the postmigration space, but (mis)interpreted as an exclusionary articulation of symbolic distinction in the premigration context. Finally, the article asks whether participants’ linguistic repertoires, self-identifications and spatialities go beyond the notion of the ‘cleft habitus’, or even hybridity, to a post-structural, translanguaging third space that transcends borders.

Who tells which story and why? Micro and macro contexts in narrative

2008 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna de Fina
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Local Meaning ◽  
The Many

AbstractThis article focuses on the inter-relations between storytelling and micro and macro contexts. It explores how narrative activity is shaped by and shapes in unique ways the local context of interaction in a community of practice, an Italian American card-playing club, but also illustrates how the storytelling events that take place within this local community relate to wider social processes. The analysis centers on a number of topically linked narratives to argue that these texts have a variety of functions linked to the roles and relationships negotiated by individuals within the club and to the construction of a collective identity for the community. However, the narrative activities that occur within the club also articulate aspects of the wider social context. It is argued that, in the case analyzed here, local meaning-making activities connect with macro social processes through the negotiation, within the constraints of local practices, of the position and roles of the ethnic group in the wider social space. In this sense, narrative activity can be seen as one of the many symbolic practices (Bourdieu 2002 [1977]) in which social groups engage to carry out struggles for legitimation and recognition in order to accumulate symbolic capital and greater social power.

A FLASH OF CONSTRUCTION SCHEMES COLLECTIVE IN THE CLASSROOM INVOLVING THE FIELD STRUCTURAL MOLECULAR

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo Gouveia Nascimento ◽  
◽  
Gabriel Nicolas Garcia Alves ◽  
Marco Antonio Bueno Filho ◽  
Rodrigo Luiz Oliveira Rodrigues Cunha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Liquid Chromatography ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Molecular Level ◽  
Chemical Bonds ◽  
Bachelor Degree ◽  
Access Information ◽  
Conceptual Relationships ◽  
Collective Construction

This study aims to access information about how college students collectively build action schemes in structural molecular level. The research had two situations presented to six students and Bachelor Degree in Chemistry from the Federal University of ABC involving content on Liquid Chromatography. The speeches of students organized in groups were recorded in audiovisual and subjected to Textual Analysis Discourse and grounded in the theory of Conceptual Fields (Vergnaud, 1996). The results were assessed, evidence of the collective construction of a scheme characterized by relevant conceptual relationships at the molecular structural field, but incomplete. Key words: theory of conceptual fields, collective schemes, chemical bonds.

scholarly journals Commodification of usada bali: between profit-oriented and negotiation of sasana balian

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-144
Author(s):  
Ida Bagus Suatama ◽  
Anak Agung Ngurah Anom Kumbara ◽  
A. A. Sagung Kartika Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Critical Ethnography ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Economic Capital ◽  
Mutual Transformation ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Professional Code

The purpose of this research is to understand and explain the discourse and practice of commodifying the usada Bali and negotiating the balian atmosphere in relation to economic interests. The method used is critical ethnography with qualitative analysis. This study found that the practice of commodifying usada Bali by balian was done by manipulating cultural capital, symbolic capital, and economic capital in the domains and dynamics of the habitus of usada Bali treatment to achieve economic goals. In medical practice, the balian people conduct negotiations in the gymnasium as a professional code of ethics in the midst of increasingly tighter competition in medical services. The findings of this study reflect the occurrence of mutual transformation in the practice of Balinese usada medicine due to the hegemony of modernity.

Ceremonies of Pleasure

2019 ◽  
pp. 122-146
Author(s):  
Paula Guerra
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
Photo Sharing ◽  
Building Activity ◽  
New Type ◽  
Portuguese Music

The importance of music concerts is all too revealing of a complex and malleable framework which operates at aesthetic, artistic, and emotional levels. We are faced here with a new type of relationship with music, in a way that we find not only the classic takes on music as an artwork to be admired, or as a collective identity-building activity, but also as a way in which festival “stages” serves as observatories of youth, cultural and artistic practices, and values in contemporary Portugal. This chapter addresses these questions via the analysis of the mobile photo-sharing application Instagram deposited by the managers of the page of Paredes de Coura's Festival—Portuguese music festival—between 2015 and 2017, and it is from here that the author will try to understand and analyze the dynamics underlying the festival as an immersive experience.

Singing Your Way out of the Closet: Young Gay Men in the Operatic World

Young ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-403
Author(s):  
Liora Gvion
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Safe Zone ◽  
Cultural Setting ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Professional Achievement ◽  
Young Gay Men

Little has been written about the reasons gay men choose opera as a venue for professional achievement and social acceptance. Espousing an ethnographic approach, the current article sets out to question their motives. Applying Bourdieu’s concepts of field, cultural capital and habitus, I suggest looking at the opera as a cultural setting, which provides young gay men with a venue for coming out of the closet and, should they be talented and meticulous, achieving professional and social positions. In constituting a safe zone for expressing closeted emotions, engagement in operatic activities enables the development and application of gay capital, as well as cultural capital, such that gayness is interpreted as an invaluable resource, granting them professional and social acceptance.

scholarly journals Insecure positions, heteronomous autonomy and tourism-cultural capital: A Bourdieusian reading of tour guides on BBC Worldwide’s Doctor Who Experience Walking Tour

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 426-442
Author(s):  
Ross Garner
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Doctor Who ◽  
Tour Guide ◽  
Institutional Level ◽  
Tour Guides ◽  
Walking Tour ◽  
Cardiff Bay ◽  
Tour Guiding

This article contributes towards debates concerning media tourism and tour guiding by using Pierre Bourdieu’s arguments regarding field and capital to analyse performed tour guide identities on BBC Worldwide’s Doctor Who Experience Walking Tour in Cardiff Bay. The article pursues three core arguments: first, a Bourdieusian framework provides an enhanced understanding of the insecure positions that tour guides occupy in what is referred to throughout as the tourism field; second, the divergent pulls between heteronomous and autonomous poles which position tour guides are magnified in officially-located media tours because of the presence of branding and theming discourses; third, drawing upon empirical data from the Doctor Who tour, the symbolic capital of official guides involves demonstrations of what is named tourism-cultural capital, but such displays do not result in an increase in individualised status as any accrued capital transfers to the institutional level.

Research on translation review in China from the perspective of Bourdieu’s Sociology

FORUM ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-238
Author(s):  
Jun Wen ◽  
Shaojing Wang ◽  
Wenhe Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Theory Of Practice ◽  
The Future ◽  
Made In

Abstract Translation review, as book review on translated works, aims to introduce, recommend and review translated works. In China, while great achievements were made in translation criticism since the 1990s, translation review was quantitatively understudied in translation studies, though it is, as a social practice, more practical and enjoys wider readership. Based on Bourdieu’s sociological theory of practice, namely, field, capital and habitus, this paper examines translation reviews in China Reading Weekly from 2010 to 2014 and argues that China fails to establish a translation field of its own, and translation review in China is subject to the multiple influences of the economic and cultural capital of the country, the symbolic capital of translators and reviewers, and the cultural capital and habitus of reviewers. The paper also puts forward some suggestions for the development of translation review in the future.

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