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Sist endret: 4. januar 2019, 14:49
NVI-rapporteringsår: 2018
Resultat
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2018

Cultural Capital as a Hidden Asset: Culture, Egalitarianism and Inter-Class Social Encounters in Stavanger, Norway

Bidragsytere:
  • Anders Vassenden og
  • Merete Jonvik

Tidsskrift

Cultural Sociology
ISSN 1749-9755
e-ISSN 1749-9763
NVI-nivå 1

Om resultatet

Vitenskapelig artikkel
Publiseringsår: 2018
Publisert online: 2018

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Scopus-ID: 2-s2.0-85058663298

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Tittel

Cultural Capital as a Hidden Asset: Culture, Egalitarianism and Inter-Class Social Encounters in Stavanger, Norway

Sammendrag

In this article, we engage with the theory of cultural capital, which was originally outlined in Pierre Bourdieu’s magnum opus Distinction. We start from a study of lifestyles in Stavanger, Norway, and qualitative interviews with 39 people dispersed in the social space. We find that interviewees with less education are largely indifferent to cultural capital, and secure about their own lifestyles. This diverges from Bourdieu’s depiction of the working-class ‘sense of place’. Yet cultural capital has social consequences. To university graduates, taste and education often matter for self-definition and social networks. Cultural capital thus contributes to social closure. Importantly, though, the highly educated are careful to de-emphasize their cultural capital when appropriate, especially in inter-class social encounters. They keep cultural distinctions hidden. In accounting for why our findings diverge from Bourdieu’s, possible explanations pertain to national cultural repertoires (Nordic egalitarianism) as well as broader (even transnational) changes in morality. Crucially, though, we engage with social interaction, which has been more neglected in previous research. For that purpose, we build on Erving Goffman’s theories. For cultural capital studies, we propose the concept of a ‘discursive gap’, and suggest more emphasis on social encounters.

Bidragsytere

Anders Vassenden

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Institutt for medie- og samfunnsfag ved Universitetet i Stavanger
Aktiv cristin-person

Merete Hermansen Jonvik

Bidragsyterens navn vises på dette resultatet som Merete Jonvik
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved NORCE Helse og samfunn ved NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS
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