Has anybody tried to operationalize Bourdieu's concepts of economic, social and cultural capital? Such as that it can be parts of experiments. I seem to only find sociological accounts of that, but no measures.
The concept of economic capital can be measured by amount of wealth, money and property a person has.
the social capital can be measured by number of helpful friends a person has.
cultural capital might be any types of skill that can bring benefits for a person.
I hope you will read the book, Theory of practice by Bourdieu.
It is not useful to measure social capital by number of "helpful" friend because it is not possible to obseerve this variable.
You might take a look at this article: Cultural capital today A case study from Denmark Annick Prieur, Lennart Rosenlund, Jakob Skjott-Larsen in Poetics (2008) 45–71.
In my view, Lennart Rosenlund is one of those Bourdieu scholars who stay true to Bourdieu.
I know that one of our graduate students applied the theory in his thesis last Spring to investigate media consumption as a form of cultural capital in regards to educational outcomes. I wasn't on his committee but the link to his thesis is: http://soar.wichita.edu/handle/10057/10975
He was doing secondary data analysis so his operationalization would have been limited by the available data but thought I'd pass it along in case you find it useful.
Cultural capital or habitus?Bourdieu and beyond in the explanation of enduring
educational inequality by Jason D. Edgerton and Lance W. Roberts, in
Theory and Research in Education-2014, Vol. 12(2) 193– 220.
Dear Ignazio,
try the following articles respectively reseach papers - they all deal with the subject of operalization Bourdieu's concept social or cultural capital:
Stefan Bernhard (2010): Netzwerkanalyse und Feldtheorie. Grundriss einer Integration im Rahmen von Bourdieus Sozialtheorie. In: Christian Stegbauer (2010) (Ed.): Netzwerkanalyse und Netzwerktheorie. Ein neues Paradigma in den Sozialwissenschaften. Wiesbaden, Springer VS Verlag, pp 121-130.
Christian Deindl (2005): Soziale Netzwerke und soziales Kapital. Einfluss auf Lebenszufriedenheit und Vertrauen. P.AGES 5 – Diskussions-Papier der Forschungsgruppe Arbeit, Generation, Sozialstruktur (AGES) der Universität Zürich.
Jürgen Gerhards (2008): Die kulturell dominierende Klasse in Europa. Eine vergleichende Analyse der 27 Mitgliedsländer der Europäischen Union im Anschluss an die Theorie von Pierre Bourdieu. In: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (KZFSS) (2008) 4:723-748, DOI 10.1007/s11577-008-0034-5.
Sonja Haug (1997): Soziales Kapital. Ein kritischer Überblick über den aktuellen
Forschungsstand. Arbeitspapier. Mannheim, Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES).
Jörg Rössel (2009): Kulturelles Kapital und Musikrezeption. Eine empirische Überprüfung von Bourdieus Theorie der Kunstwahrnehmung. In: Soziale Welt (2009), S. 239 - 257.
Jörg Rössel, Kathi Bromberger (2009): Strukturiert kulturelles Kapital auch den Konsum von Populärkultur? In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Jg. 38, Heft 6, Dezember 2009, S. 494–512.
Christoph Winkler (2005): Lebenswelten Jugendlicher. Eine empirisch-quantitative Exploration an Berufsschulen zur sonderpädagogischen Förderung im Regierungsbezirk Oberfranken. Dissertation, vorgelegt an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Good luck with your research project and kind regards, Detlef
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