Relying on the resource-based view and drawing work of Pierre Bourdieu his key concepts field, habitus capitals, we scrutinise via student focus group reports, perceptions first year business undergraduate students, asking them what university school attributes they considered during application process so that can determine give schools a competitive advantage. Our findings reveal combination ...

Social capital has been defined by Robert Putnam in his book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community as “features of social organizations, such as networks, norms and trust, that facilitate action and co-operation for mutual benefit.” Cultural capital, as defined by Pierre Bourdieu, has most often been associated with personal interest in and experience with prestigious cu...

this research is a study of effects of academic capital in forming of artistic habitus in iran. the main assumption of this article which is induced from pierre bourdieu’s theories is based on this believe that formation of artistic habitus or “the love of art” and legitimate taste in individuals is initially has a close relationship with their level of education as institutionalized cultural a...

This article uses Bourdieu‘s theory of practice (BTOP) to understand immigrants‘ acculturation. It synthesizes research findings by discussing acculturation as: (1) equalization of immigrants‘ and natives‘ development (convergence); (2) language and social practices related to economic, cultural, social and symbolic capitals; and (3) relationships among acculturation indicators in the evolving ...

The objective of this article is to investigate the relationship between socioeconomic profile basic education teachers and their choice for private or public network as professional position. concepts Pierre Bourdieu, especially cultural capital, field habitus, guide our analysis. As a hypothesis, we consider that school teachers, when compared have incorporated matrix with dominant dispositio...

In this article, an interdisciplinary lens is applied to French migrants’ reflections on their everyday language practices, investigating how embodied and embedded language, such as accent London-French translanguaging, serve both in-group out-group symbolic markers in different transnational spaces. Key sociological concepts developed by Pierre Bourdieu are deployed, including field, habitus, ...

This paper is based on a five years’ research focused on the measurement of cultural contribution of events of art and technology to London. Developing the concept of ‘cultural capital’ devised by sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, it was possible to identify their ‘forms’, such as ‘embodied’, ‘objectified’ and ‘institutionalised’ as parameters to a cultural measurement system. Applying this system t...