scholarly journals Parental Cultural Capital as a Determinant of Cultural Preferences of Young People

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krešimir Krolo ◽  
◽  
Sven Marcelić ◽  
Željka Tonković
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Cultural Preferences

Disobeying in Time of Disaster: Radicalism in the French Climate Mobilizations

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-250
Author(s):  
Maxime Gaborit
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Political Socialization ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Democratic Participation ◽  
Material Damage ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
The Social

Abstract Since 2018, climate mobilizations have been shaping political life in Europe. Young people are at the heart of this mobilization, both because of their massive nationwide presence in intergenerational demonstrations, but also because of their own modes of action, such as the climate strikes that have been emerging since January 2019. Within these mobilizations, forms of radicalism are expressed through an important support for civil disobedience, such as blocking actions, as well as support – for a significant part of protestors – for material damage. This paper analyzes the new forms of youth radicalism in their link to the social determinations of the awareness of the climate catastrophe. Based on a demonstration survey concerning three French cities for the strike of March 15, 2019, and in Paris for the strike of September 20th, which collected more than 1,800 questionnaires, this paper sets out to show the sociological profiles of radical individuals, which distinguish themselves by significant cultural capital and left-wing familial political socialization. The exploitation of the data collected shows that these new forms of radicalism are conditioned by an awareness of the climate emergency, deeply linked to family legacies and specific academic curricula. The radicalization of inherited dispositions leads these individuals to go beyond the legality/illegality framework, and to favor a debate on the effectiveness of the means of action, in which the link with conventional democratic participation is constantly questioned.

scholarly journals INNOPOLISES AND SCIENCE CITIES: A STRATEGY OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGH AND «HUMAN FACTOR»

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 93-97
Author(s):  
Alexey Osipov ◽  
Vyacheslav Savinykh ◽  
Natalya Makarenko
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Human Factor ◽  
Technological Breakthrough ◽  
Cultural Preferences ◽  
Inhibiting Factor ◽  
Success Of Science ◽  
Science And Education ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Science Cities

We consider the socio-humanitarian problems of the formation of innopolises and science cities in Russia in the XXI century, including the impact of socio-cultural preferences on the formation of these types of localizations. The key role of young scientists in achieving the success of science and education centers is stated. It is pointed out that the inhibiting factor here is the decline of work ethic and the realities of the labor market in the form of the insufficient prestige of a researcher in the professional preferences of young people.

scholarly journals ‘It’s Something Posh People Do’: Digital Distinction in Young People’s Cross-Media News Engagement

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jannie Møller Hartley
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Cross Media

In this article, I analyse digital distinction mechanisms in young people’s cross media engagement with news. Using a combination of open online diaries and qualitative interviews with young Danes aged 15 to 18 who differ in social background and education, and with Bourdieu’s field theory as an analytical framework, the article investigates how cultural capital (CC) operates in specific tastes and distastes for news genres, platforms and providers. The article argues that distinction mechanism not only works on the level of news providers and news genres but also on the level of engagement practices—the ways in which people enact and describe their own news engagement practices. Among those rich in CC, physical, analogue objects in the form of newspapers and physical conversations about news are seen as ‘better’ that digital ones, resulting in a feeling of guilt when they mostly engage with news on social media. Secondly, young people with lower CC discard legacy news, which they see as elitist and irrelevant. Thirdly, those rich in CC are media and news genre savvy in the sense that it makes them able to critically evaluate the news they engage with across platforms and sites.

scholarly journals Class Diversity and Youth Volunteering in the United Kingdom

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 95S-113S ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Dean
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Young People ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Diverse Populations ◽  
Widening Access ◽  
The United Kingdom

This article utilizes Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of habitus and cultural capital to offer some explanation as to why there is a lack of class diversity in formal volunteering in the United Kingdom. Recent studies have shown that participation in volunteering is heavily dependent on social class revolving around a highly committed middle-class “civic core” of volunteers. This article draws on original qualitative research to argue that the delivery of recent youth volunteering policies has unintentionally reinforced participation within this group, rather than widening access to diverse populations including working-class young people. Drawing on interviews with volunteer recruiters, it is shown that the pressure to meet targets forces workers to recruit middle-class young people whose habitus allows them to fit instantly into volunteering projects. Furthermore, workers perceive working-class young people as recalcitrant to volunteering, thereby reinforcing any inhabited resistance, and impeding access to the benefits of volunteering.

From class society to the individualized society? A critical reassessment of individualization and class

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Rasborg
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Young People ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
Theoretical Integration ◽  
Liquid Modernity ◽  
Class Society ◽  
Class Power ◽  
Reflexive Modernity

The concept of “individualization” plays a central role in both classic and modern sociology. In modern sociology writers such as Beck, Giddens, and Bauman made the concept of individualization a key one in their theories of “late”, “reflexive”, and “liquid modernity”. However, the emphasis which the sociology of individualization puts on “liberation”, choice and social change is challenged by the sociology of stratification and power (Bourdieu, Dean, and others) with its greater emphasis on class, power and social reproduction. This paper seeks to “overcome” this schism between social change and social reproduction in the form of an attempt to think the differentiated (stratified) forms of individualization in reflexive modernity. The assumption is that there is a differentiation in reflexive modern people’s ability to deal with the requirements of individualization, depending on their possession of economic, social and cultural capital. This is argued by means of a theoretical “reconstruction” of the insights and deficiencies of the sociology of individualization, and demonstrated—with a focus on young people—by a number of empirical examples. In conclusion, the paper discusses the possibility of a theoretical integration of the fundamental insights of both the sociology of individualization and the sociology of stratification.

scholarly journals Individualisering og social differentiering i den refleksive modernitet

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Rasborg
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Young People ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
Liquid Modernity ◽  
Class Power ◽  
Reflexive Modernity

Ikke kun i klassisk, men også i moderne sociologi spiller begrebet om ”individualisering” en helt central rolle. I nyere sociologi har ikke mindst Ziehe, Beck, Giddens og Bauman gjort individualiseringsbegrebet til et nøglebegreb i deres teorier om sen-, refleksiv og flydende modernitet. Individualiseringssociologiens betoning af frisættelse, valg og social forandring udfordres imidlertid af differentierings- og magtsociologien (Bourdieu, Dean, Rose m.fl.), der i højere grad betoner klasser, magt og social reproduktion. I artiklen søges skismaet mellem forandring og social reproduktion ”overvundet” i form af et forsøg på at tænke individualiseringens differentierede former i den refleksive modernitet. Antagelsen er således, at der – afhængigt af besiddelsen af økonomisk, social og kulturel kapital – er forskel på refleksiv moderne menneskers evne til at håndtere individualiseringens krav, hvilket – med fokus på unge – illustreres med en række empiriske eksempler. Afslutningsvis peges der på muligheden af en teoretisk integration af fundamentale indsigter i såvel individualiserings- som differentieringssociologien. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Klaus Rasborg: Individualization and Social Differentiation in Reflexive Modernity The concept of ”individualization” plays a central role in both classic and modern sociology. In modern sociology writers such as Ziehe, Beck, Giddens and Bauman made the concept of individualization a key concept in their theories of ”late”, ”reflexive” and ”liquid modernity”. However, the emphasis which the sociology of individualization puts on ”liberation”, choice and social change is challenged by the sociology of differentiation and power (Bourdieu, Dean, Rose and others) with its greater emphasis on class, power and social reproduction. This article seeks to ”overcome” this schism between social change and social reproduction in the form of an attempt to think the differentiated forms of individualization in reflexive modernity. The assumption is that there is a differentiation in reflexive modern people’s ability to deal with the requirements of individualization, depending on their possession of economic, social and cultural capital. This is argued by means of a theoretical ”reconstruction” of the insights and deficiencies of the sociology of individualization, and demonstrated – with a focus on young people – by a number of empirical examples. In conclusion, the article discusses the possibility of a theoretical integration of the fundamental insights of both the sociology of individualization and the sociology of differentiation. Key words: Individualization, social differentiation, young people, risk, reflexive habitus.

scholarly journals The Exclusionary Practices of Youth Sport

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 24-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethan C. Kingsley ◽  
Nancy Spencer-Cavaliere
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Financial Constraints ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Interpretive Description ◽  
Exclusionary Practices ◽  
Sports Involvement ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
Over Time

Youth who live with lower incomes are known to experience social exclusion in a range of social settings, including sport. Despite efforts to reduce financial constraints to participation, increasing opportunities in these ways has not led to increased involvement. There is a need to move beyond a discussion about barriers and explore the quality of young people’s engagement within sport. The present study consequently sought to understand the sport involvement of young people living with lower incomes. Interpretive description informed the analysis of transcripts generated from interviews with ten youth (aged 13-18 years) and six parents. Three themes captured the ways income had a prominent influence on the sports involvement of young people. Sports settings generally required that young people acquire abilities from an early age and develop these concertedly over time. The material circumstances in which youth were brought up impacted the extent to which they could or wanted to participate in these ways. The final theme outlines the experiences of young people in sport when they possessed less cultural capital than others in the field. The findings of the study collectively highlight a number of interconnected exclusionary processes in sport and demonstrate the need to reimagine sport in ways that challenge the hegemonic discourses continuing to exclude a large number of young people.

‘Berlin is Not a Foreign Country, Stupid!’—Growing up ‘Global’ in Eastern Germany

2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (8) ◽  
pp. 1855-1872 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathrin Hörschelmann ◽  
Nadine Schäfer
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Local Connectivity ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Power Differentials ◽  
Unequal Access

In this paper we analyse how young East Germans come to be differentially placed in global network space through their socioeconomically and culturally specific engagements with globalised mediascapes and ethnoscapes. We call for greater awareness of the power differentials which shape globalisation, and draw on the theoretical work of Pierre Bourdieu to show how unequal access to social and cultural capital influences and is reflected in the ‘glocal’ connections through which young people develop and perform their identities. Further, we seek to understand how these differential engagements impact on young people's future trajectories through the development of different competencies. We contend that, precisely how young people are positioned in networks of global–local connectivity matters profoundly, both for the performance of their present identities, and for their future life chances.

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