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Family Work Among the Astors

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
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Convertibility of Cultural Capital: A Longitudinal Study of University Students From 2017 to 2024

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A defining feature of cultural capital is its propensity for accumulation and the potential of its convertibility. However, there are a lack of studies that would explore how different forms of cultural capital could be employed as an advantage.
Ondřej Špaček
wiley   +1 more source

Adiós a Pierre Bourdieu

Historia y Sociedad, 2002
Tras haber estudiado su obra y logrado el privilegio de ser su alumno en la Escuela de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Sociales de Paris, cuatro aspectos considero capitales de su inmensa producción, la construcción de diversas herramientas teorico-metodologicas para explicitar los diversos modos de dominación, una crítica fundamental a la reproducción ...
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Taking Stock: Elite Studies and Social Change

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article provides a systematic synthesis of contemporary elite sociology through the analytical lens of change and stability. We distinguish between two types of change: change within elites, referring to transformations in elite composition, circulation, or internal characteristics; and change by elites, designating processes whereby ...
Lena Ajdacic, François Schoenberger, Johanna Behr, Fabio Cescon, Lion Hubrich, Emma Ischinsky, Muneeb Salman, Juliana Mazzucotelli, Laura Mrčela, Alonso Pi Cholula, Céline Roy, Sophie Serrano, Helle Dyrendahl Staven, Tina Thakur   +13 more
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Wissenschaftsskepsis als doppelte Ausschlusserfahrung während der Corona-Pandemie. Eine bildungssoziologisch-politikwissenschaftliche Perspektive mit Pierre Bourdieu [PDF]

Magazin erwachsenenbildung.at
Der Beitrag erklärt, basierend auf der Theorie Pierre Bourdieus, den empirisch belegbaren Zusammenhang zwischen formal niedrigem Bildungsabschluss, Misstrauen gegen die Wissenschaft und dem Wählen von sich als „wissenschaftsskeptisch“ inszenierenden ...
Lukas Hofmann
doaj  

Skilled for Whom? Immigration Policy, Racial Capitalism, and the Reproduction of Inequality in Britain

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the UK's 2025 Immigration White Paper as a critical site for understanding how immigration policy functions as an instrument of racial capitalism. Drawing on Critical Race Theory, the theory of social reproduction, and intersectionality, it interrogates how the state's construction of the ‘skilled migrant’ operates as a ...
Muhammad Abdul Aziz, Muhammad Umar, Deborah Hamer‐Acquaah   +2 more
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Beyond Distinction: Private Art Museums and Their Versatile Role for Elites' (Self)Legitimization Discourses

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 2000s have witnessed a significant, worldwide boom in new art museums founded by private, wealthy collectors. While the arts have long been a key arena for the remaking of elite distinction and the reproduction of inequalities, this surge in private museums has sparked much controversy.
Sara de Andrade Silva, Kristina Kolbe, Olav Velthuis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bourdieu

, 2018
La sociologie de Pierre Bourdieu occupe incontestablement une place centrale dans le travail de Michel Offerlé. Elle est présente dans les objets d’investigation qu’il a choisis tout au long de sa carrière ; elle l’est surtout dans son épistémologie et dans les méthodes mises en œuvre dans sa pratique de chercheur.
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Methodological Challenges in Studying Wealthy Families

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studying the wealthy is not easy. This piece provides suggestions for recruitment, interview strategies, and design to gain high‐quality data on wealthy people. It is based on an interview study of 81 US racially‐diverse families with a median net worth of $25 million. First, to gain access to the wealthy, it is key for the researcher to use a
Annette Lareau
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Cultural and Human Capital Signals in Hiring—A Factorial Survey Experiment Across Contexts

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When evaluating candidates, hiring agents may draw on signals of human as well as cultural capital. While these processes have been considered separately, an open question is how the two types of signals interact. As signals of social class, cultural capital signals relate to human capital as they evoke stereotypes about competence, polish ...
Luisa Burchartz, Kobe De Keere, Sara Geven   +2 more
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