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National symbolic capital in a multinational environment. An exploratory study of symbolic boundaries at a European school in Brussels

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 2018
Despite processes of Europeanisation in education aimed at reducing symbolic boundaries of nationality among Europeans, countries continue to be judged in terms of their reputation or “symbolic capital”.
Daniel Drewski, J. Gerhards, S. Hans
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Artistic Work as Symbolic Capital

European Review, 2020
Female artists and performers are at the top of the scale of precarious work relations in post-Fordist society. Their work is undervalued and seldom paid. This article deals with the issues arising from the controversial relations between the cultural, social and economic value of their work. How to re-valorize artistic work performed by women?
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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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Symbolic Capital of the Memory of communism. The quest for international recognition in Kazakhstan

Theory and society, 2021
Nelly Bekus
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Teenage Drinking, Symbolic Capital and Distinction

Journal of Youth Studies, 2007
This article analyses alcohol-related lifestyles among Danish teenagers. Building on Bourdieu's reasoning on symbolic capital and distinction, we analyse three interrelated themes. First, we show that alcohol-related variables (drinking patterns, drinking debut, experience of intoxication, etc.) can be used to identify some very distinctive life styles
Järvinen, Margaretha, Gundelach, Peter
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Symbolic capital and gender

To analyse global gender-related political, social and economic differences, the concept of symbolic capital is used to explain the importance of gender for inequality in political participation or in the financial sector, among others. It can be found as an approach to explaining migration movements, labourmarket segregation, different career paths ...
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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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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, 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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Symbolic Management: Developing and Deploying Symbolic Capital For Strategic Advantage

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2016
Across research traditions, considerable attention has been paid to the management of symbols as an important activity enabling firms to influence stakeholders’ attitudes, beliefs, and expectations...
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