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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"forms of capital"”.
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The Forms of Capital and Intergenerational Change in Higher Education Access: A Case Study of Aranguez
… supportive government policies. The case study of Aranguez, a former sugar-cane plantation in Trinidad, involved interviews with descendants of East Indian indentured labourers of all ages, which allowed insight into intergenerational changes in education and impacts of policy shifts. The …
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Does Money Indeed Buy Happiness? “The Forms of Capital” in Fitzgerald’s Gatsby and Watts’ No One is Coming to Save Us
… with the dominant culture at large? Do any of these texts achieve oppositional value, and/or modify the complex hegemonic structure? I use Pierre Bourdieu’s “The Forms of Capital” to investigate the ways in which economic, cultural, and social capital are distributed amongst identity groups …
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Women s Reproductive Bodies and Labour as The Premise for The Survival of The Capitalist System: A Transnational Feminist Inquiry into Contemporary and Speculative Future Forms of Capital Accumulation
This dissertation examines how capitalism has remained predicated upon women's reproductive bodies and labour in the contemporary moment and its possibilities for the future. Relevant to the current aftermath of overturning Roe v. Wade, this research incorporates the concepts of gender, race, …
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Community Cultural Wealth Within New Latinx Destinations: Mexican American Narratives of College Completion in Oregon
… study explores the college access experiences of 20 Mexican American students within Oregon through a Community Cultural Wealth framework (Yosso, 2005). Participants were recruited through a purposeful sampling approach, accompanied with snowball sampling, that was used to locate rich key …
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Empowering Voices: Perspectives and Experiences of Latino and Black Men in Minority Serving Institutions’ Male Success Initiatives
… dissertation investigates the experiences of men of color participating in Male Success Initiatives (MSIs) and examines the impact these initiatives have on their undergraduate experiences. Central to the study are two main research questions: How do MSIs influence and shape the experiences …
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Parental Influence on Graduate School Aspirations among First Generation and Non-First Generation College Students Attending Highly Selective Institutions
… underrepresented in certain segments of American higher education particularly in graduate education (Callan, 2001). Among those individuals who shape the educational plans of first-generation students are their parents (Hossler & Stage, 1999; McDonough, 1997). Researchers …
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Factors Influencing the Retention and Graduation of Latino Male Students: Four-Year Hispanic-Serving Institutions
… study explores how participants used the various forms of capital: Aspirational, Familial, Linguistic, Navigational, Resistant and Social to successfully graduate. A phenomenological design was used in the study. Individual interviews, questionnaires and a photo elicitation process were part of …
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Essays in intangible capital reallocation, mergers and acquisitions and financial frictions
This dissertation consists of three essays. In the first essay, I document novel empirical facts at the aggregate and the firm level on the reallocation of tangible and intangible capital. First, at the aggregate level, I interpret firm physical capital sales data as tangible capital reallocation …
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The Lived Experiences of the Latinx Mentor and The Role of Community Cultural Wealth
… and the Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) six forms of capital (Yosso, 2005) utilized in mentoring relationships. The six forms of capital (Yosso, 2005) serve as a platform for cultural knowledge, abilities, and experiences that assist in the psychosocial and academic enrichment of the Latinx …
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The Locus of Preparation and Privilege: College Choice and Social Reproduction
<p>Despite the ostensible proposition of American higher education to create a level playing field and advance an individual's life opportunities, the history of access to higher education in the United States has demonstrated a lack of equality in enrollment patterns. This enrollment inequality …
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The tyranny of timespace: examining the timetable of schooling activities as the interface between policy and everyday rhythms
This thesis seeks to understand the role of school timetables as an interface between policies that regulate or distribute forms of capital to schools, and their teaching and learning rhythms. By doing so, it proposes a mechanism for examining the reproduction of schooling practices, and how these …
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Loans Versus Bonds as Emerging Market Credit
… may exhibit high volatility relative to other forms of capital such as direct investment. Some authors question whether portfolio flows are hot money. None look at more specific categories, however. Accordingly, various estimations and tests are performed on loans and bonds to determine which …
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Race, Gender, Class, and Schooling: The Role of Cultural, Social, and Symbolic Capital
The transfer of cultural, social, and symbolic capital shapes the educational processes and influences the educational outcomes of African-American students in desegregated environments. The stratified nature of capital fosters hierarchical dynamics between those who do and those who do not possess …
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Exit the Matrix, Enter the System: Capitalizing on Black Culture to Create and Sustain Community Institutions in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the Fall of 2005, millions of dollars of Northern philanthropic aid have poured into the Gulf Coast, as have volunteers, rebuilding professionals, and NGO workers. Subsequently, New Orleans has witnessed an explosion of NGOs and Social Enterprises, all …
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Mentoring Experiences of Undergraduate Black Males: A Case Study of Their Journeys, Access, and Participation
… relationships and collegiate experiences of eight undergraduate Black males as well as their self-reported participation and access to mentoring. The main research question guiding the study was: What are the mentoring relationships and collegiate experiences of eight undergraduate Black …
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Benefits and Losses: Non-Traditional Adult Learners Returning To Education
This study investigates the experience of seven non-traditional adults returning to education. All had won individual or group ‘adult student of the year’ awards. The main research question concerned the benefits and losses they experienced from returning to learning. Sub-questions investigated the …
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ELITES AND POLITICS: WHO GOVERNS US? Measuring and comparing species of capital in the Chilean political elite, 1990-2010
In this study, the Bourdieusian concepts of species of capital and habitus are applied to the field of elites. Although sociological research has examined the reproduction of Chile’s elites, there is little empirical evidence as to how different forms of capital operate within them. Based on a …
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Unorthodox Support: How Mentors of Undocumented Immigrant Students Leverage Community Cultural Wealth to Pave the Way for College Success
… study explored the mentoring experiences of undocumented immigrant students (UIS) who have graduated from a four-year college or university in the United States. There has been an increase in research about undocumented immigrant students and there is an established body of literature …
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Livelihood strategies and its impact on women in northern Thailand
… employment choices, motives and the implications of their livelihood decisions for themselves and their families. It will be shown that Thai womena??s attainment of greater social and economic mobility vary according to the extent of their possession of the various forms of capital. In addition, …
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Economic and Parent-Adolescent Relationship Capital Predicting Educational Outcomes
Using the perspectives of social capital theory (Coleman, 1988) and life course theory (Elder et al., 2003), this study examined how economic capital and particular dimensions of the parent-adolescent relationship predicted educational outcomes. The economic capital variables were family income, …
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