Social capital is increasingly regarded as a crucial predictor of performance improvement. However, the Internet is challenging the previous understanding of social capital. In this study, we conduct a research to empirically test the social capital theory in the context of e-business. Specifically, we investigate the influence of social capital on firm substantial and symbolic performance, and...

this study tries to review the reasons for which young girls tend to perform beauty surgeries on their faces, within the framework of veblen’s “theory of the leisure class” and his “social models” such as fiscal ownership. the statistical society has been the girl students of the university of tehran selected through snow ball sampling and discourse analysis was applied to analyze the semi-stru...

BACKGROUND Policy-makers and health research funders increasingly require researchers to demonstrate that they have involved patients in the design and conduct of research. However, the extent to which patients and public have the power to get involved on an equal footing is dependent on their economic, cultural, social and symbolic capital. OBJECTIVE To explore power relations in patient and...

The Islamic Revolution of Iran has included symbolic aspects. The fundamental question of the article is that, what are the symbolic aspects of the Islamic Revolution of Iran and why the Islamic Republic of Iran has used these features to influence Islamic countries? Since the bearers of the word and the symbolic goods have the most legitimacy in social and political fields, this revolution has...

We are arguing that, through three practical domains (see p. 679), these students have acquired a significant amount of symbolic capital (Bourdieu 1984), capital that is now wasted rather than systematically developed. In fact, the “boot camp” mentality of the early Ph.D. training years seems to have had the impact of purging much of that capital from the students’ psyche (Montealegre and Truex...

<p>O artigo aborda o estado da arte do capital simbólico e família empresária, contribuindo para uma compreensão mais aprofundada dos conceitos que lhe estão subjacentes. A estratégia de investigação prosseguida socorreu-se “teoria prática” Bourdieu, procurando visão inovadora se passa no campo em análise. Como principais resultados aponta-se um conjunto dez questões, as quais poderão ser...

IS adoption is inherently a social practice shaped by the immediate social context but capital power does not have a stronger presence in ANT and sociomateriality. The paper describes Bourdieu’s practice theory and suggests that by this lens we can better understand IS adoption (e.g., implementation of MRP II/ERP/ERP II) as symbolic capital changing power relations in an adopted organization. S...