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Sexual Orientation as Symbolic Capital and as the "Object" of Symbolic Violence

Human Affairs, 2010
Sexual Orientation as Symbolic Capital and as the "Object" of Symbolic Violence Sexual orientation is currently understood to be an innate disposition. Heterosexually oriented people are perceived to be in the majority and homosexually oriented people as the minority.
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Transnationality and Symbolic Capital

Social Sciences and Missions
Abstract This paper tackles the role of entrepreneurs in the rise of the Christian Right in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China. I argue that in Taiwan and Hong Kong, the emergence of the Christian Right was backed by transnational entrepreneurs and big companies. These entrepreneurs are characterized by their flexible citizenship.
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Bruges as Symbolic Capital (Abstract)

Comparative Critical Studies, 2018
This article proposes a new reading of the relationship between place and symbolic capital, arguing that certain loci are able to consecrate literary works through inspiration rather than reception, publication and circulation. Taking the city of Bruges as an exemplar, it examines its representation by Baudelaire, Rodenbach and Rilke, arguing that ...
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Symbolic capital and social classes

Journal of Classical Sociology, 2013
In this short but dense piece, written for a special issue of the journal L'Arc devoted to the medieval historian Feorges Duby (whose sprawling oeuvre Bourdieu admired and drew on for its scrupulous genealogy of the mental-cum-social structure of the feudal triad of knight, priest, and peasant: see Georges Duby, The Three Orders (1982 [1978]), Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu, Loïc Wacquant
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SYMBOLIC CAPITAL OF THE TERRITORY

Dynamics of Media Systems
The article consists of two logically connected parts. The first part focuses on the symbolic capital of a territory, while the second examines the symbolic capital of an organization. In the first part, the concept of territorial symbolic capital is introduced and its influence on the formation of cultural and historical memory is explored using the ...
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Symbolic Capital

2021
Richard Thomas Watson, Saji K. Mathew
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Symbolic, Cultural, and Social Capital

2011
Citizens of Fayette made use of noneconomic capital (social, cultural, and symbolic capital) in fields of social production at work, within households, in community organizations, and through the media. They participated in both hierarchical and heterarchical power networks.
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Gender, Solidarity, and Symbolic Capital

2017
This chapter considers the significance of prominent women's leadership in the movement to stop mountaintop removal. The prominence of women in leadership positions is a signature characteristic of Appalachian community activism, including the CRMW and the Friends of the Mountains (FOM) networks.
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Symbolic Capital and Material Inequalities

Space and Culture, 2007
This article explores the symbolism of three objects that memorialize Brixton as a multiclass and multiracial space while eliding the inequalities that racialized and classed identities are inscribed with. Although each of the three objects were formed to commemorate very different moments in the history of British capitalism and in the struggle ...
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Reworking Modernity: Capitalism and Symbolic Discontent.

Man, 1994
George E. Marcus, Allan Pred, Michael John Watts   +2 more
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