Cultural reproduction
View article
Shadow education and social class inequalities in secondary education in Greece: the case of teaching English as a foreign language Open
This article deals with the shadow education system of private tutoring which contributes to the reproduction of social class inequalities, focusing on the Greek public secondary education system. It presents a literature review of the iss…
View article
The Culture Reproduction In the Charles Dickens’ Novel “Great Expectations” (Pierre-Felix Bourdieu Theory) Open
This research discusses cultural reproduction in Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations and aims to discover the process of cultural reproduction in the novel. The researcher used the culture reproduction (habitus and field concept) the…
View article
International education and the pursuit of ‘Western’ capitals: middle-class Nigerian fathers’ strategies of class reproduction Open
Studies have shown the ways in which non-Western middle- and upper-class families are seeking to educate their children in the West. The rationale for this kind of social reproduction strategy is the acquisition of ‘valuable’ cultural and …
View article
Unraveling the marginalization of new generation peasant workers in China: Cultural reproduction and symbolic construction Open
As China accelerates its urbanization progress, the once homogenous peasant worker group has now become more diversified with the rise of a new generation of peasant workers (NGPWs). Whereas previous literature is preoccupied with making i…
View article
Educating the new Chinese middle-class youth: the role of quality education on ideas of class and status Open
This article attempts to answer the questions: “Why is quality education so important for the new Chinese middle class and what implications does quality education have on ideas of status and social standing?” My efforts to answer these qu…
View article
Choices, risks and rational conformity: extending Boudon’s positional theory to understand higher education choices in contemporary China Open
This study extends Boudon’s positional theory to understand how students from different social origins make choices about university and how they interpret risks during the choice-making process in contemporary China. I draw upon empirical…
View article
Parental social class and GCSE attainment: Re-reading the role of ‘cultural capital’ Open
This paper examines the roles of parental social class and cultural capital in inequalities in English school qualifications. The analytical focus is the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). Integral to Bourdieu’s theory of c…
View article
‘They are bad seeds’: stereotyping habitus in Chinese VET colleges Open
VET colleges in China are positioned at the bottom of the educational hierarchy, absorbing the ‘left-over’ students with ‘less desirable’ academic records. VET students are stereotyped as ‘stupid and lazy’ youths suffering considerable pre…
View article
The Role of Cultural Capital in Higher Education Access and Institutional Choice Open
This paper aims to explore social inequalities in school achievement and educational decision-making of the final-year students of secondary schools in the City of Zagreb and Zagreb County, Croatia (N = 534). The theoretical framework of t…
View article
Overlaps and accumulations: The anatomy of cultural non-participation in Finland, 2007 to 2018 Open
There is a fervent belief that culture is, among other desirable ideals, “good for you.” This has been the baseline of the cultural policies in many countries. Through cultural policies, some forms of cultural participation over others are…
View article
Impact Model of Tourism Production and Consumption in Nanjing Yunjin: The Perspective of Cultural Heritage Reproduction Open
Nanjing Yunjin was included in “the first batch of non-material cultural heritage list in China” in 2006, and the city was also selected as “a list of representatives of human intangible cultural heritage” by the United Nations in Septembe…
View article
School–Muslim Parent Collaboration in Finland and Sweden: Exploring the Role of Parental Cultural Capital Open
This study explores head teachers' and cultural brokers' views of school–Muslim parent collaboration in Finland and Sweden. The data includes semi-structured interviews with school heads (n = 20) and Muslim cultural brokers (n = 16). The t…
View article
Transmission of cultural capital and status attainment – an analysis of development between 15 and 45 years of age Open
Starting with Bourdieu's habitus and capital theory, this paper focuses on the question of whether the cultural resources of families and students have an impact on the status attainment process between the ages of 15 and 45. The analysis …
View article
Pesantren and the preservation of traditional religious authority in the digital age Open
Kiai is the Javanese term of ulama in the traditional Muslim community. It generally refers to a person who has a deep understanding of Islam and leads the institution of traditional Islamic education called pondok pesantren or Islamic boa…
View article
The invention of Chinese “media tradition”: Mediatization of festival tradition and family cultural reproduction in contemporary China Open
The popularity of Internet and mobile media in China has weaken the collective TV viewing culture in Chinese families. Behind the decline of television, the China Central Television’s Spring Festival Gala Show (Gala Show) is hard to mainta…
View article
Challenging neoliberal sport: Skateboarding as a resilient cultural practice Open
This paper argues that research on sporting cultures can illuminate wider debates over the power relations materialised through the fields of cultural practice. Specifically, as neoliberalism has spread across the social realm, sport has c…
View article
Body pedagogics, culture and the transactional case of Vélo worlds Open
During the past two decades, there has been a significant growth of sociological studies into the ‘body pedagogics’ of cultural transmission, reproduction and change. Rejecting the tendency to over-valorise cognitive information, these inv…
View article
Reproduction of Social Inequality in Education by Transferring Cultural Capital Open
The primary goal of this research is to explore how social inequality resulting from cultural capital and habitus substantially inherited from family in education among individuals is reproduced and to test Bourdieu’s theory of cultural ca…
View article
An Analytical Approach to Culture Open
In this paper, I outline a general framework for cultural analysis consistent with an “analytic” approach to explanation in social science. The proposed approach provides coherent solutions to thorny problems in cultural theory. These incl…
View article
Habitus in alternative food practice: Exploring the role of cultural capital in two contrasting case studies in Glasgow Open
This study is dedicated to the exploration of the role of Bourdieu’s notion of cultural capital on the formation of habitus within alternative food initiatives (AFIs) among two contrasting case studies in the urban post-industrial landscap…
View article
Ethnocultural Education as a Factor of the Spiritual Security of the Russian Polyethnic Society Open
The article is based on the idea that in the setting of multiculturalism of the Russian society, the escalation of ethnic conflict is fraught with grave risks to the territorial integrity of the state; therefore, there is much tension arou…
View article
Cultural repertoires of school choice: Intersections of class, race and culture in Pretoria and Amsterdam Open
In school choice literature, class-based strategies for social reproduction of the middle classes are often the central explanatory framework. While race, ethnicity and other social categories are increasingly included in the analysis, the…
View article
The Introduction of Compulsory Schooling Around the World: Global Diffusion Between Isomorphism and ‘Cultural Spheres’ Open
In Chap. 2 , Helen Seitzer, Fabian Besche-Truthe, and Michael Windzio investigate the diffusion of compulsory education from a global perspective. Compulsory education closely relates to the reproduction and change of a country’s culture. …
View article
Smartphones in the Swedish upper-secondary classroom: A policy enactment perspective Open
This study addresses normative orientations to smartphone use in Swedish upper-secondary classrooms. We present a Nexus Analysis from a policy enactment perspective of a material comprising ethnographic interviews, classroom video observat…
View article
Cultural Landscape Reproduction of Typical Religious Architecture in Qingjiangpu Based on Scene Theory Open
Scenes are important carriers of cultural expression. Cultural landscapes reveal specific cultural connotations through various scenes, and people understand and give things cultural connotations through scenes. In recent years, new techni…
View article
The ’every day’ of polarisation in schools; understanding polarisation as (not)dialogue Open
This paper analyses how 'polarisations' in which social tensions between the religious, ethnic and socio-economic groups are believed to increase are experienced and understood by secondary school teachers in the Netherlands. Based on the …
View article
Cultural Industries: Two Aspects of Comprehension Open
Cultural industries are a subject of lively discussion in the social and human sciences, which indicates the expansion of theoretical tools in the interpretation of the concept. In understanding the concept of “cultural industries”, two ma…
View article
‘The more things change the more they stay the same’: The continuing relevance of Bourdieu and Passeron’s <i>Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture</i> Open
The publication of Bourdieu and Passeron’s Reproduction had a mixed response. On the one hand the work was criticised for its determinism and pessimistic prognosis of the possibilities of educational change and, on the other hand, praised …
View article
The Lack of Age Representation in the Governance of Rugby Union in England Open
Diversity and representation in sport governing bodies has become an issue for both public discussion and academic debate in recent times. Previous work has primarily centered on gender inequalities within the forever changing masculine te…
View article
PEARL INDUSTRY IN THE UAE REGION IN 1869-1938: ITS CONSTRUCTION, REPRODUCTION, AND DECLINE Open
The article focuses on the United Arab Emirates’ pearl industry during the period of British colonialization of the Arabian Gulf region, and, specifically, during the rise and decline of the pearl industry. The article aims to explore and …