symbolic capital

"This city is the symbolic capital of the world," a Washington police officer said after one incident.

New York was attacked because it is the symbolic capital of the country."

Symbolic capital has a much more central place in traditional than in modern societies.

A war hero, for example, may have symbolic capital in the context of running for political office.

Rare groove also provided a musical space where the 'symbolic capital' of the music became very important.

Symbolic capital is always defined by the system in which it is valued.

Objects, as abstract representations of their environments, may also possess symbolic capital.

Later he adds symbolic capital (resources available to an individual on the basis of honor, prestige or recognition) to this list.

Symbolic capital must be identified within the cultural and historical frame through which it originated in order to fully explain its influence across cultures.

What follows is a non-exhaustive list of what may constitute symbolic capital.

'Strategies' aim at the accumulation of symbolic capital.

These offices used up their economic capital, but in so doing, it was translated into status (symbolic capital) in the traditional role.

The power to arbitrarily determine what constitutes legitimate cultural capital within a specific field is derived from symbolic capital.

The titles also act as symbolic capital that can be used to gain favour when desired by the Oba, and sometimes vice versa.

(4) These value judgements are in most fields determined by the amount of symbolic capital that the producer (or producers) has accumulated.

He extended the idea of capital to categories such as social capital, cultural capital, and symbolic capital.

Bourdieu sees symbolic capital (e.g., prestige, honor, attention) as a crucial source of power.

This symbolic capital could, in turn, be used to draw customers in the marketplace because of a reputation for honesty and selflessness.

He makes reference to symbolic capital - an appropriation of how things should be; that can be individualistic or collectively expressed.

They are to maximize the lineage's accumulation of symbolic capital, and not primarily over principles of power over a whole society.

A fourth species, symbolic capital, designates the effects of any form of capital when people do not perceive them as such."

Both of these conceptualizations, in turn, provided groundwork for Bourdieu's unifying theory of symbolic capital.

Mr. Bourdieu, in short, has "symbolic capital" in spades.

Bourdieu utilized an alternate model, which emphasized how "economic capital" could be translated into "symbolic capital" and vice versa.

Theorists have argued that symbolic capital accumulates primarily from the fulfillment of social obligations that are themselves embedded with potential for prestige.