cultural capital

Examples of cultural capital in the following topics:

• Intelligence and Inequality

  • In the most basic sense, academic capital is strongly tied to earning potential.
  • Students who do best in school are not always the most intelligent, but are usually culturally competent and sociable.
  • The term educational capital is a concept that expands upon the theoretical ideas of French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu who applied the notion of capital to social capital, cultural capital, and symbolic capital.
  • Pierre Bourdieu and Basil Bernstein explored how the cultural capital of the dominant classes has been viewed throughout history as the "most legitimate knowledge. " How schools choose the content and organization of curriculum and instructional practices connects scholastic knowledge to dynamics of class, gender, and race both outside and inside our institutions of education.
  • Devise two separate scenarios, one in which educational capital serves as a leveling mechanism and one in which academic capital reproduces inequality

• Capital Letters

  • Directly quoted speech is capitalized if it is a full sentence.
  • Proper nouns should always be capitalized.
  • A name or nickname should always be capitalized.
  • Names referring to a person’s culture should be capitalized.
  • Languages are also capitalized.

• Protestant Work Ethic and Weber

  • In contrast to Marx's "historical materialism," Weber emphasized how the cultural influences embedded in religion could be a means for understanding the genesis of capitalism.
  • Additionally, Weber observed that both ascetic Protestantism and capitalism encouraged cultural practices that reinforced one another.
  • Instead, he viewed it was part of a cultural complex that included the following:
  • Instead of being viewed as morally suspect, greedy, or ambitious, financially successful believers were viewed as being motivated by a highly moral and respectable philosophy, the "spirit of capitalism. " Eventually, the rational roots of this doctrine outgrew their religious origins and became autonomous cultural traits of capitalist society.
  • Thus, Weber explained the rise of capitalism by looking at systems of culture and ideas.

• Culture and Society

  • Culture is what differentiates one group or society from the next; different societies have different cultures.
  • Material and nonmaterial aspects of culture are linked, and physical objects often symbolize cultural ideas.
  • A metro pass is a material object, but it represents a form of nonmaterial culture (namely capitalism, and the acceptance of paying for transportation).
  • For instance, the high culture of elites is now contrasted with popular or pop culture.
  • In this sense, high culture no longer refers to the idea of being "cultured," as all people have culture.

• Free Enterprise

  • This is an example of capitalism in which government policies generally target the regulation and not the money.
  • The designation is applied to a variety of historical cases, varying in time, geography, politics, and culture.
  • There are multiple variants of capitalism, including laissez faire, mixed economy, and state capitalism.
  • Capitalism gradually spread throughout the Western world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • Explain how free enterprise leads to the economic system of capitalism

• Capitalism

  • Capitalism is generally considered by scholars to be an economic system that includes private ownership of the means of production, creation of goods or services for profit or income, the accumulation of capital, competitive markets, voluntary exchange, and wage labor.
  • The designation is applied to a variety of historical cases, which vary in time, geography, politics, and culture.
  • Economists, political economists and historians have taken different perspectives on the analysis of capitalism.
  • Capitalism is generally viewed as encouraging economic growth.
  • Examine the different views on capitalism (economical, political and historical) and the impact of capitalism on democracy

• Culture-Specific Nuances of Human Resources Management

  • Human resources management (HRM), or the strategic initiatives that govern human capital within a company, are one of the central components of any business.
  • Indeed, human capital is quite often one of the highest capital expenditures business anticipate.
  • Coupling a rapidly globalizing economy with these advantages places significant pressure on HR to find effective and efficient ways to maximize human capital investments across new, and sometimes unfamiliar, cultures.
  • Internationalization and the continued growth of cultural understanding has greatly reduced cultural barriers.
  • The HR department is responsible not only for recruiting and onboarding, but also in creating a synergistic environment for all human capital on a macro level .

• Subcultures

  • A subculture is a culture shared and actively participated in by a minority of people within a broader culture.
  • In sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies, a subculture is a group of people with a culture that differentiates themselves from the larger culture to which they belong.
  • A culture often contains numerous subcultures, which incorporate large parts of the broader cultures of which they are part; in specifics they may differ radically.
  • Additionally, sociologists study the ways in which these symbols are interpreted by members of the dominant culture.
  • Businesses often seek to capitalize on the subversive allure of subcultures in search of "cool," which remains valuable in selling of any product.

• Welfare State Capitalism

  • Companies sponsored sports teams, established social clubs, and provided educational and cultural activities for workers.
  • However, even at the peak of this form of welfare capitalism, not all workers enjoyed the same benefits.
  • Business-led welfare capitalism was only common in American industries that employed skilled labor.
  • This is an example of welfare capitalism in that it involves a business providing for its employees.
  • Discuss how welfare capitalism impacts the worker and the business, in terms of costs and benefits for both

• Capitalism in the U.S.

  • The three pillars include economic incentives through free markets, fiscal responsibility, and a liberal moral-cultural system, which encourages pluralism.
  • Most liberals and conservatives generally support some form of democratic capitalism in their economic practices.
  • The ideology of "democratic capitalism" has been in existence since medieval times.
  • The relationship between democracy and capitalism is a contentious area in theory and among popular political movements.
  • Demonstrate how capitalism in the US is controlled by its democratic political system