Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 303 for “"cultural capital"”.
-
Financial Cultural Capital: Cultural Capital in the Context of Higher Education and Federal Student Loans
… indices: knowledge, feelings, and financial cultural capital and tested for racial differences between Blacks and Whites. The knowledge index investigates students' knowledge of the terms of their loans and experience with basic financial instruments. The feelings index captures students' …
-
Equality and Cultural Capital for Migrant Farm Workers
… in employment but also around their social and cultural transitions. The study shows how those experiences resonate with keys themes and concepts in contemporary migration literature that greatly contribute to the equality claims from cultural capital. I address claims of resources and …
-
Educational achievement : does parental cultural capital make a difference
… educational achievement and their parental cultural capital. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 10 parents of Form 1 and Form 2 secondary school underachieving girls. Throughout the interviews, parents gave information about their daughters' education, their involvement and …
-
Contexts of cultural capital in collaborative practice in further education.
… study explores ownership and manifestations of cultural capital (Bourdieu 1984) demonstrated by a sample of lecturers in the UK Further Education ('FE') sector and the influence this has on cross-college collaborative practice. The research was conducted at three colleges in the English Midlands …
-
Beyond the Bootstrap: Social and Cultural Capital in Hispanic Entrepreneurship
… how founders strategically convert social and cultural capital to navigate the minority discount. Grounded in Pierre Bourdieu’s framework of capital, the research utilizes 39 semi-structured interviews with a diverse cohort spanning high-growth sectors including software development, energy …
-
Literary Tourism: Linking Cultural Capital, Tourist Experiences and Perceptions of Authenticity
… critically synthesise the relationships between cultural capital and perceptions of authenticity in literary tourism experiences. Whilst authenticity is a central theme in literary tourism research, few studies have explored authenticity and Bourdieusian cultural capital concurrently. Thus, this …
-
Initiations, interactions, cognoscenti: social and cultural capital in the music festival experience
This thesis explores the role of social and cultural capital in the music festival experience. It does so by gathering observations and post-festival accounts from attendees at three separate music festivals located in England. The data were analysed using Fairclough's approach to critical …
-
Parent Engagement and Cultural Capital: Negotiating Culture in a Multilingual/Multiethnic School
<p>This study explored how a multicultural/multilingual school negotiated culture with limited English proficient (LEP) students' families, particularly in the context of parent involvement activities. In order to understand how such negotiation of culture occurred, the researcher focused on the …
-
Influence of Cultural Capital in Two Rural Appalachian Towns: A Comparative Case Study
… Appalachian towns have turned to using their cultural capital as a community development resource. As a tool in community building, cultural capital shifts the focus of a community away from its problems, towards its assets (Phillips and Shockley, 2010). The purpose of this study was to …
-
The Habitus of Mackenzie King: Canadian Artists, Cultural Capital and the Struggle for Power
… knowledge and power, and religious, social and cultural capital, the dissertation analyzes the central paradox of why—despite his decades-long involvement in half-a-dozen artistic disciplines—King failed to implement cultural policies as Prime Minister that would have benefited Canadian artists …
-
Cultural capital and the impact on graduation for African American men in community colleges
… was to focus on the theoretical framework of cultural capital as a potential catalyst for the graduation rates of African American men in community colleges. Cultural capital is being defined as 'institutionalized, i.e., widely shared, high status cultural signals (attitudes, preferences, …
-
Influences of Cultural Capital and Internationalization on Global Competence: Evidence from China’s Higher Vocational Education
… in higher education. Under the umbrella of cultural capital theory and internationalization framework, a systematic literature review analyzed and synthesized 26 empirical studies pertaining to global competence education in postsecondary education from 2013 to 2022. The review revealed a …
-
Experiences with cultural capital in education : exploring the educational life stories of first-generation postsecondary students
… educational life stories and experiences with cultural capital. The project sought to examine how 3 first-generation university students experience cultural capital that is privileged in Ontario's education system and how the interactions between capital acquired through experiences within the …
-
Student success in an introductory engineering course : an investigation of approach to learning and cultural capital
… education. For this reason, the construct of cultural capital that is widely used in the sociology of education literature was used in an attempt to explain the differences experienced by students from various social classes. Data of this study were collected through individual in-depth …
-
Making the American Aristocracy: Women, Cultural Capital, and High Society in New York City, 1870-1900
… by possessing, displaying, and cultivating cultural capital. Particularly, High Society women sought to exclude the Nouveaux Riches who, after amassing vast fortunes in industry or trade, came to New York City in search of social position. High Society women distinguished themselves from …
-
Unveiling Career Aspirations: The Role of Human, Social, and Cultural Capital Among California Community College Classified Staff
… their progression? Using human, social, and cultural capital theories, this dissertation used quantitative methods to examine classified staff’s career aspirations. The research involved evaluating which factors from human, social, and cultural capital are associated with aspirations for …
-
Leveraging cultural capital : a single case study of refugee service providers’ navigation of social and systemic barriers.
… in the United States and explored how cultural capital practices shape access to essential services. Refugees, often navigating acculturative stress, language barriers, and financial constraints, have traditionally engaged with a resettlement system that undervalues their inherent …
-
An exploratory study of the effects of cultural capital on the successful completion of a two-year honors program
… program? It is hypothesized that exposure to cultural capital by students, prior to and while attending junior college, is important in facilitating academic success. Quantitative methodology is used to examine the research questions and test the study hypotheses concerning the effects of …
-
Cultural capital and cultural repertoires among the black middle-class: race, class, and culture in the racialised social system
… racism and anti-racism affect black middle-class cultural lives?’ I answer this question through interviews with thirty-two black Brits in professional occupations, and ethnographic work across middle-class spaces in London. I argue there are three black middle-class identity modes – strategic …
Page 1 of 16