In this comment I review Goldthorpe’s recent portrayal of the substance ofBourdieu’s views on the issues of cultural capital, education and class reproduction, byfocusing on three major set of claims that Goldthorpe imputes to Bourdieu. Using morerecent and more representative examples of Bourdieu’s work on education and classreproduction, I show that Bourdieu did not hold the p...

Historically, imitation has frequently been proposed as the central mechanism mediating the reproduction, spread, intergenerational transmission and stabilization of human cultural forms, population-specific behavioral traditions found in groups of non-human primates, or both (Baldwin 1894; Bandura 1986; Blackmore 2000; Byrne and Russon 1998; Dawkins 1976; Dennett 1995; Donald 1991; Meltzoff 19...

Online reading behavior can be regarded as a 'new' form of cultural capital in today's digital world. However, it is unclear whether 'traditional' mechanisms of cultural and social reproduction are also found in this domain, and whether they manifest uniformly across countries at different stages of development. This article analyzes whether the early home literacy environment has an impact on ...

The goal of color reproduction is generally to maximize the accuracy between an original scene or image and a reproduction. The focus of this paper is to better understand color preference reproduction where the original image is the cognitive representation of the reproduced image rather than a physical original. In order to quantify the degree of accuracy when measuring cognition, the impleme...

Çalışmanın amacı yerel yönetimlerin kentsel alandaki kültürel üretimlere ilişkin pratiklerini, kültür merkezlerinin isimlendirilmesi ve buralarda yürütülen faaliyetler üzerinden analiz etmektir. İktidarlar kurumsal ideolojik çerçeveleri kullanarak insanların düşüncelerini yaşam tarzlarını etkilerler. Bu etkileme ulusal düzeyde yürütüldüğü gibi ölçekte farklı ideolojiye sahip belediyeler tarafın...

This article tracks the growth of medical anthropology in the United States in the decades since the 1970s, as it has intersected the expansion of feminist activism and scholarship. I argue that feminist attention to embodied inequalities quickly focused on reproduction as a site of investigation and intervention. Medical anthropology has benefited from feminist concern with stratified reproduc...