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Branding Spin-Off Scholarly Journals: Transmuting Symbolic Capital into Economic Capital

Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 2020
:In this article, we analyse a relatively recent commercial strategy used by large academic publishers to capitalize on the brand names of their most prestigious scientific journals.
Mahdi Khelfaoui, Y. Gingras
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Language learning through an intersectional lens: Gender, migrant status, and gain in symbolic capital for Syrian refugee women in Turkey

, 2020
This paper sheds light on Syrian refugee women’s negotiation strategies in language learning classrooms and in their broader social contexts from an intersectional perspective. Drawing on in-depth interviews and focus groups complemented by participatory
S. Rottmann, Maissam Nimer
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Bycatch of the Day: Wild Meat Consumption, Ecological Knowledge, and Symbolic Capital among Indigenous Maroon Parrot Hunters of Jamaica

Journal of Ethnobiology, 2020
. Wild meat has been shown to engender social capital—building and strengthening of social networks and creating cultural pathways for the poor, the urban, and the diaspora to maintain cultural identity.
L. Gibson
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Networked Collective Symbolic Capital Revisited

International Journal of Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric, 2020
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.
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Corporate towers and symbolic capital [PDF]

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 1992
The meaning of the corporate office tower is explored within the framework of the production of symbolic capital.
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State Power, Symbolic Capital, and the Hierarchy and Homogeneity of Higher Education in China: In the Example of Three Key Universities Policies After the Founding of New China

Chinese education and society, 2019
The structure of higher education in China is characterized by a high degree of hierarchy as well as strong homogeneity, differing from not only American higher education, which features a high degree of both hierarchy and heterogeneity, but also higher ...
L. Xiaohong
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Symbolic identity building, ethnic nationalism and the linguistic reconfiguration of the urban spaces of the capital of Pristina, Kosovo

Ethnicities, 2022
This paper presents a historical study of the linguistic landscape (LL) of Pristina’s city center as an important site of contestation and competing symbolic identity constructions throughout Kosovo’s turbulent interethnic past.
Uranela Demaj
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Political power as symbolic capital and symbolic violence

Journal of Political Power, 2011
This article discusses the possibility of the simultaneous existence of inclusion/empowerment and exclusion/dominance within the practices of everyday political participation. Taking a point of departure in the Bourdieusian approach to practice and symbolic power, the article first constructs a theoretical framework for studying political practices and
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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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How does it feel to be an anti-martyr’s widow? The interplay of religious capital and negative symbolic capital of war widows

Social Compass, 2018
This article demonstrates the contrasting experiences of military widows in the modern Jewish Orthodox and the Bedouin sectors in Israel. While fallen Jewish soldiers are honored in a fashion similar to martyrs, Bedouin fallen soldiers are perceived as ...
Y. Bokek-Cohen, S. Ben-Asher
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