Durham E-Theses Cultural Capital and Habitus in Golf Consumption: Embedded Mechanisms of Transference GLENN, JAMES,WILLIAM,EDWARDS How to cite: GLENN, JAMES,WILLIAM,EDWARDS (2020) Cultural Capital and Habitus in Golf Consumption: Embedded Mechanisms of Transference, Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/13804/ Use policy This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY) Academic Support Oce, Durham University, University Oce, Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HP e-mail:
[email protected] Tel: +44 0191 334 6107 http://etheses.dur.ac.uk James William Edwards Glenn Cultural Capital and Habitus in Golf Consumption: Embedded Mechanisms of Transference Abstract This study looks to advance our understanding of the increasingly nuanced cultural capital, subcultural capital, and habitus in consumer research by exploring how individuals transfer dispositions of habitus and embodied forms of capital across field boundaries. Using an ethnographic and autoethnographic approach, the research examines how mechanisms of transference, embedded in the habitus and homogeneity between valorizing field structures, permit individuals to utilize aggregated forms of cultural and subcultural capital sculpted by the field of golf. Through participant observation, interviews, journals, and over two years of exhaustive golf performance, both in the Northeast of England and further abroad, the research illustrates how narratives of soft skills and emotional capital shape the dispositions of individuals acquired, developed, and complemented by significant secondary socialization. This research contributes to the existing consumer research and consumer culture theory by extending understandings and conceptualisations of marketplace cultures, particularly subcultures of sport, and how cultural resources and distinctive practices previously thought to be context- dependent might be transferred.