‘Our Traditions are Modern, Our Modernities Traditional’: Chieftaincy and Democracy in Contemporary Cameroon and Botswana by Francis B. Nyamnjoh

“…Chiefdoms and chiefs have become active agents in the quest  by the new elites for ethnic, cultural symbols as a way of maximising  opportunities at the centre of bureaucratic and state power, and at the  home village where control over land and labour often require both  financial and symbolic capital. Chieftaincy, in other words, remains  central to ongoing efforts at developing democracy and accountability  in line with the expectations of Africans as individual ‘citizens’ and  also as ‘subjects’ of various cultural communities. …”
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A vida como projeto: a pedagogia do homo economicus e as iniciativas de fomento ao “espírito do capitalismo” via educação pública by Miqueli Michetti

“…The concentration of economic, political, social, and symbolic capital of economic elites allows them to transform initiatives based on their visions and beliefs in national scope public policies. …”
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‘Our Traditions are Modern, Our Modernities Traditional’: Chieftaincy and Democracy in Contemporary Cameroon and Botswana by Francis B. Nyamnjoh

“…Chiefdoms and chiefs have become active agents in the quest  by the new elites for ethnic, cultural symbols as a way of maximising  opportunities at the centre of bureaucratic and state power, and at the  home village where control over land and labour often require both  financial and symbolic capital. Chieftaincy, in other words, remains  central to ongoing efforts at developing democracy and accountability  in line with the expectations of Africans as individual ‘citizens’ and  also as ‘subjects’ of various cultural communities. …”
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Entrepreneurs’ social capital in struggles within market field: The case of the Croatian software industry by Tamara Šmaguc, Ksenija Vuković

“…In general, a rich reservoir of social capital facilitates the entrepreneur's search for financial resources and supports the construction of a base of cultural and symbolic capital, with informal networks and acquaintances of entrepreneurs standing out for their ease of conversion to other forms of capital.…”
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Media Construction of Sport Celebrities as National Heroes by Diana Luiza Dumitriu

“… Within the broader media-sport nexus framework, sport is known for providing not only engaging performances for the entertainment market, but also important symbolic capital in terms of national identity and public diplomacy. …”
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A Spatial History of Independent Art Spaces in Krakow from the 1970s to 2019 by Jarosław Działek

“…I also discuss how independent art spaces were using their usually marginal, temporary and fluid sites in their artistic practices and the accumulation of symbolic capital in the field of art.…”
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Analysis of Fakir Baykurt’s novel “Tırpan” (Scythe) in terms of symbol violence / FAKİR BAYKURT’UN TIRPAN ADLI ROMANININ SİMGESEL ŞİDDET AÇISINDAN İNCELENMESİ by Tülin Arseven

“…Pierre Bourdieu gave to sociology many new terms, such as; metaphor of game and area, habitus, symbolic capital and symbolic violence. Research that Pierre Bourdieu conducted and the opinions that he proposed became important sources for new research not only in sociology but also in many other fields. …”
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Official statistics and big data in Latin America: Data enclosures and counter-movements by Oscar Arruda d’Alva, Edemilson Paraná

“…As a result, the statistical field has reacted to the data market with a ‘double movement’: mobilising symbolic capital such as ‘trust’ for partnering with businesses to access data and technologies and, conversely, defending the public value of data in counter-movements protective of the relative autonomy of the national statistical offices and the state's control over informational capital.…”
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Sacred landscapes, ecclesiastical landscapes: from necropolis to parish in central Iberia by Iñaki Martín Viso

“…The Church could use the symbolic capital of these ancient burials to shape the new ecclesiastical landscape. …”
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Queer vulnerability and disaster situations by Seth Atkin, Kieran Higgins, Claire Kilpatrick, Stephan Dahl

“…Utilizing a Bourdieusian framework, the field of disaster preparedness, management, and recovery is examined for queer vulnerability, which is deconstructed here as a product of global and local cultures, in their distribution of economic, social, cultural, and symbolic capital away from queer people. The concepts of habitus and subsidiary concepts of ethos and doxa are deployed to understand the ingrained ways of doing and being that perpetuate discrimination against queer individuals through said inequitable distributions of capital. …”
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Influence of Positive Thinking Ideology on Physician Representations of Cancer by Luis Felipe Higuita-Gutiérrez, Diego Alejandro Estrada-Mesa, Walter Alfredo Salas-Zapata, Jaiberth Antonio Cardona-Arias

“…The technical discourse and the symbolic capital of physicians offer scientific legitimacy to these ideas and can become performative for patients.…”
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Forms of Historical Oblivion and Figures of Silence in Commemorative Practices of the Black Lives Matter Movement: A Comparative Analysis of Media Discourses in English-Speaking Co... by Andrei A. Linchenko

“…Assmann, in the quest for symbolic capital. This study identifies and examines key figures of silence within BLM as a community of memory, including a-historical perspective of colonial era events, disproportionate focus on selected cancellation facts, invocation of collective guilt, silence over morally questionable traits of the oppressed, absence of a constructive program linking past and future, and unchecked emotional expression regarding the past.…”
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Dmitry Grigorovich’s Literary Memoirs: Axiology and Plot by Alexey Eugenyevich Kozlov

“…It is demonstrated that the symbolic capital of the writer’s name, despite the authority and significance of some of his works, was lost by the end of the nineteenth century. …”
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THE PRACTICE OF IDENTITY POLITICS IN THE BANGKA BELITUNG REGIONAL HEAD ELECTION by Amir A., Salman D., Fahmid I.M.

“…Factors supporting actors in winning the battle to gain power, maintain, and even expand power in the arena must be supported by capital, a cultural capital, or symbolic capital and take advantage of primordial sentiments.…”

J.M. Coetzee's Hispanic worlds by Perez Barra, C

“…Coetzee’s work and Hispanophone literature and culture, 1970 to the present day, in order to demonstrate in broad terms how he has used his symbolic capital to open a Hispanic and southern perspective onto Anglophone world literature. …”

A Poet as an Art Manager: A Maria Osipova Project “Masha Writes” (2018)

“…The project fits into the art industry, works for the symbolic capital of the author and participants, as well as for the attractive image of the UMMC company. …”
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Delegitimization of “Russian world”: alternatives to nonalternativeness by Наталія Фіалко

“…This leads to the performative selfdenial of the “russian world”, which can be traced at the level of the accumulation of symbolic capital, the establishment of political elites (the authorities and the opposition), as well as at the level of the development of civil society. …”
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Savings Groups for Social Health Protection: A Social Resilience Study in Rural Tanzania by Brigit Obrist, Angel Dillip, Albino Kalolo, Iddy M. Mayumana, Melina Rutishauser, Vendelin T. Simon

“…The groups strengthened women’s social recognition in their family, community and beyond and enabled them to initiate transformative change through advocacy for health insurance (symbolic capital). Savings groups shape the evolving field of social health protection in interaction with governmental and other powerful actors and have further potential for mobilization and transformative change.…”
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«Велика трансформація» грошей Та підходи гуманітарних наук до її осмислення by Oлена Павлова

“…The monograph is considered as an actual attempt to organize the ways of reflecting on the relationship between the forms of money circulation and symbolic capital, as well as to systematize the humanities approaches and the specifics of them to this topic. …”
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Analysis of a public school’s practices and values through the lens of equitable quality education for All: A case for juxtaposing schools and SDGs by Dawit Mihiretie, Tesfaye Andargie

“…Critical education theorists’ arguments on education, social and cultural reproduction, and Bourdieu’s theory of symbolic capital are used to inform the study. Using a participative observer case study methodology, the study employed interview, observation, and document analysis to collect data. …”
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