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Adynamic Model of Cultural Reproduction
03:2013 WORKINGPAPER YNAMIC ODEL OF ULTURAL EPRODUCTION A D M C R SFI – THE DANISH NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, YALE UNIVERSITY A DYNAMIC MODEL OF CULTURAL REPRODUCTION Mads Meier Jæger Richard Breen THE DANISH NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH, COPENHAGEN; DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN; DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, YALE UNIVERSITY Working Paper 03:2013 The Working Paper Series of The Danish National Centre for Social Research contain interim results of research and preparatory studies. The Working Paper Series provide a basis for professional discussion as part of the research process. Readers should note that results and interpretations in the final report or article may differ from the present Working Paper. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including ©-notice, is given to the source. 1 A Dynamic Model of Cultural Reproduction Mads Meier Jæger1,2 and Richard Breen3 1 Department of Sociology 2 The Danish National Centre 3 Department of Sociology University of Copenhagen for Social Research Yale University Øster Farimagsgade 5, B16 Herluf Trolles Gade 11 P.O. Box 208265 1014 Copenhagen K 1052 Copenhagen K New Haven CT 06520-8265 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 16 December 2012 Abstract: We draw on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of cultural reproduction to develop a formal model of the pathways though which cultural capital acts to enhance children’s educational success. We argue that our approach brings conceptual and empirical clarity to an important area of study that hitherto has been short of both. -
Photographic Presence in New Mexico
Past, Present and Future: Photographic Presence in New Mexico Devorah Romanek A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University College London (UCL), 2019 I, Devorah Romanek Confirm that the work presented in this thesis is my own. Where information has been derived from other sources, I confirm that this has been indicated in the thesis. Photograph on frontispiece: Will Wilson (2012). “Zig Jackson, Citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, Professor of Photography, Savannah College of Art and Design.” Label text from the 2013 exhibition Toward a Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange: Will Wilson’s CIPX at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico: “Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe Indian Market, 2012. Archival pigment print from wet plate collodion scan. Jackson takes a picture of an Indian taking a picture of an Indian as Andrew Smith protects his soul from theft.” Photo credit: © Will Wilson, courtesy of the artist. ii Abstract This thesis investigates the relationship between historical ethnographic photographs of Native Americans, their disposition in archives and collections, and the relationship of those images to their contemporary circulation and use by Native American artists, and others, particularly in New Mexico. Having undertaken original research into mid-19th century photographs in archives internationally, pertaining to Native America in the American Southwest, new histories and a re- framing of the photographs in question has been assembled. This portion of the research was undertaken both as a starting point for further investigation, and as a return to the people of New Mexico, particularly the Indigenous inhabitants of that place. -
Critical Multiculturalism in the Classroom: from Theory to Practice
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations 1-1-1998 Critical multiculturalism in the classroom: From theory to practice Denise Michelle Dalaimo University of Nevada, Las Vegas Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/rtds Repository Citation Dalaimo, Denise Michelle, "Critical multiculturalism in the classroom: From theory to practice" (1998). UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations. 3065. http://dx.doi.org/10.25669/puxi-p9md This Dissertation is protected by copyright and/or related rights. It has been brought to you by Digital Scholarship@UNLV with permission from the rights-holder(s). You are free to use this Dissertation in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s) directly, unless additional rights are indicated by a Creative Commons license in the record and/or on the work itself. This Dissertation has been accepted for inclusion in UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Scholarship@UNLV. For more information, please contact [email protected]. INFORMATION TO USERS This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. UMI films the text directly from the original or copy submitted. Thus, some thesis and dissertation copies are in typewriter face, while others may be from any type of computer printer. The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy subm itted. Broken or indistinct print, colored or poor quality illustrations and photographs, print bleedthrough, substandard margins, and improper alignment can adversely affect reproduction. In the unlikely event that the author did not send UMI a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. -
Franz Boas's Legacy of “Useful Knowledge”: the APS Archives And
Franz Boas’s Legacy of “Useful Knowledge”: The APS Archives and the Future of Americanist Anthropology1 REGNA DARNELL Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology University of Western Ontario t is a pleasure and privilege, though also somewhat intimidating, to address the assembled membership of the American Philosophical ISociety. Like the august founders under whose portraits we assemble, Members come to hear their peers share the results of their inquiries across the full range of the sciences and arenas of public affairs to which they have contributed “useful knowledge.” Prior to the profes- sionalization of science in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the boundaries between disciplines were far less significant than they are today. Those who were not experts in particular topics could rest assured that their peers were capable of assessing both the state of knowledge in each other’s fields and the implications for society. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington were all polymaths, covering what we now separate into several kinds of science, humanities, and social science in ways that crosscut one another and illustrate the permeability of disciplinary boundaries. The study of the American Indian is a piece of that multidisciplinary heri- tage that constituted the APS and continues to characterize its public persona. The Founding Members of the Society all had direct and seminal experience with the Indians and with the conflict between their traditional ways of life and the infringing world of settler colonialism. On the one hand, they felt justified in exploiting Native resources, as surveyors, treaty negotiators, and land speculators. On the other hand, the Indians represented the uniqueness of the Americas, of the New World that defined itself apart from the decadence of old Europe. -
Annotations 1963-2005
The Anthropological Caribbeana: Annotations 1963-2005 Lambros Comitas CIFAS Author Title Description Annotation Subject Headings 1977. Les Protestants de la Guadeloupe et la Les Protestants de la Guadeloupe et Author deals with origin of Protestants in Guadeloupe, their social situation, problem of property, and communauté réformée de Capesterre sous Abénon, Lucien la communauté réformée de maintenance of the religion into 18th century. Rather than a history of Protestantism in Guadeloupe, this is an GUADELOUPE. L'Ancien Régime. Bulletin de la Société Capesterre sous L'Ancien Régime. essay on its importance in the religiou d'Histoire de la Guadeloupe 32 (2):25-62. 1993. Caught in the Shift: The Impact of Industrialization on Female-Headed Caught in the Shift: The Impact of Households in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. Industrialization on Female-Headed Changes in the social position of women (specifically as reflected in marriage rates and percentages of Abraham, Eva In Where Did All the Men Go? Female- CURAÇAO. Households in Curaçao, Netherlands children born to unmarried mothers) are linked to major changes in the economy of Curaçao. Headed/Female-Supported Households in Antilles Cross-Cultural Perspective. Joan P. Mencher and Anne Okongwu 1976. The West Indian Tea Meeting: An With specific reference to "tea meetings" on Nevis and St. Vincent, author provides a thorough review of the The West Indian Tea Meeting: An Essay in Civilization. In Old Roots in New NEVIS. ST. VINCENT. Abrahams, Roger history and the development of this institution in the British Caribbean. Introduced by Methodist missionaries Essay in Civilization. Lands. Ann M. Pescatello, ed. Pp. 173-208. -
ED351735.Pdf
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 351 735 CS 508 010 AUTHOR Min, Eung-Jun TITLE Can Political Economy of Communication Be Incorporated with Cultural Studies in Postmodern Era? PUB DATE Nov 92 NOTE 28p. PUB TYPE Viewpoints (Opinion/Position Papers, Essays, etc.) (120) Information Analyses (070) EDRS PRICE MF01/PCO2 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Cross Cultural Studies; *Cultural Context; *Culture; *Ideology; Marxian Analysis; *Mass Media; Media Research; *Social Class IDENTIFIERS *Bourdieu (Pierre); Intertextuality; Postmodernism; Theoretical Orientation ABSTRACT While not attempting to review and criticize the whole body of research of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, this paper explores the applicability of his theory of culture to one of the critical theories of mass communication, namely cultural studies. The paper discusses political economy and Bourdieu's economic rationality and presents an overview of Bourdieu's sociology of culture. The paper compares the two theories within four concepts which are regarded as the central notions of cultural studies: culture, class, ideology, and intertextuality. The paper concludes that Bourdieu's sociology, especially the analysis of the relations between economic capital and cultural capital, would be a way of resolving the lack of political economic aspect of cultural studies. One hundred thirty-three references are attached. (RS) ********************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. * *********************************************************************** -
8.4 Historical Particularism
UNIT 8 CLASSICAL THEORIES Contents 8.0 Introduction 8.1 The Beginning: Comparative Method and the Science ofSociety 8.2 ClassicalEvolutionaryTheory 8.3 ClassicalDiffusion Theory 8.4 HistoricalParticularism 8.5 Neo-Diffusionism 8.6 Neo-Evolutionism 8.7 Summary 8.8 References 8.9 Answers to Check Your Progress LEARNING OBJECTIVES In this unit, you willlearn about the following perspectives: the beginning: comparative method and the science of society; evolutionarytheory; diffusion theory; historicalparticularism; neo-evolution: multilinear evolutionand culturalecology; and neo-diffusion: culture area theory. 8.0 INTRODUCTION Anthropology starts as the Science of Man (quite literally as almost all the early scholars were white men). By the sixteenth century,the understanding that humans as a species are part of nature and controlled by its laws like any other species, animals or plants;had taken its roots. Since humans and societywere subject to the laws ofnature, theycould be studied byprinciples ofnaturalscience. In other words an objective, scientific studyofsocietywas possible.Although the human bodywas already an object of medical science, the position of human beings as a species in the schema ofnaturalevolution, were matters that needed academic attention. The most significant paradigmshift was froma religious perspective to a scientific or secular perspective. The scholarly approach was based upon ‘rationality’ and ‘evidence’; following an empirical methodology, where the physical evidence was complimented withdeductive reasoning. Contributor: Professor Subhadra Mitra Channa, Former Professor, Department of 107 Anthropology, University of Delhi Theoretical Perspectives 8.1 THE BEGINNING: COMPARATIVE METHOD AND THE SCIENCE OF SOCIETY Scientific method isbased uponobservation, experimentationand comparison. While inanimate objects can be easily subjected to, such as a process, humans in their societycan onlybe observed to a limited extent and cannot be experimented upon. -
Particularism and the Retreat from Theory in the Archaeology of Agricultural Origins Kristen J
SPECIAL FEATURE: PERSPECTIVE PERSPECTIVE SPECIAL FEATURE: Particularism and the retreat from theory in the archaeology of agricultural origins Kristen J. Gremilliona,1, Loukas Bartonb, and Dolores R. Pipernoc,d aDepartment of Anthropology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210; bDepartment of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260; cDepartment of Anthropology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20013-7012; and dSmithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado Postal 0843-03092, Panama, Republic of Panama Edited by James O’Connell, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, and approved October 28, 2013 (received for review June 26, 2013) The introduction of new analytic methods and expansion of research into previously untapped regions have greatly increased the scale and resolution of data relevant to the origins of agriculture (OA). As a result, the recognition of varied historical pathways to agriculture and the continuum of management strategies have complicated the search for general explanations for the transition to food production. In this environment, higher-level theoretical frameworks are sometimes rejected on the grounds that they force conclusions that are incompatible with real-world variability. Some of those who take this position argue instead that OA should be explained in terms of local and historically contingent factors.This retreat from theory in favor of particularism is based on the faulty beliefs that complex phenomena such as agricultural origins demand equally complex explanations and that explanation is possible in the absence of theoretically based assumptions. The same scholars who are suspicious of generalization are reluctant to embrace evolutionary approaches to human behavior on the grounds that they are ahistorical, overly simplistic, and dismissive of agency and intent. -
What It Is and What It Isn't: Cultural Studies Meets Graduate-Student Labor
What It Is and What It Isn't: Cultural Studies Meets Graduate-Student Labor Toby Miller* This Essay performs two functions. First, it surveys cultural studies. Second, it takes issue with criticisms of cultural studies for being socially irrelevant by pointing to its capacity to galvanize opposition to exploitation even though many of its operating assumptions are awkward for governmental normativity (such as the law) to accept. Cultural studies is a tendency across disciplines, rather than a discipline itself. This is evident in practitioners' simultaneously expressed desires to refuse definition, to insist on differentiation, and to sustain conventional departmental credentials (as well as displaying pyrotechnic, polymathematical capacities for reasoning and research). Cultural studies is animated by subjectivity and power-how human subjects are formed and how they experience cultural and social space. It takes its agenda and mode of analysis from economics, politics, media and communication studies, sociology, literature, education, the law, science and technology studies, anthropology, and history, with a particular focus on gender, race, class, and sexuality in everyday life, commingling textual and social theory under the sign of a commitment to progressive social change. Cultural studies' continuities come from shared concerns and methods: the concern is the reproduction of culture through structural determinations on subjects versus their own agency, and the method is historical materialism.' In this sense, it is vitally connected to issues of collective self-determination, or how social movements gain control over the means of their existence. This link became manifest to me via the significance of cultural studies in the struggles by graduate-student employees at American universities to attain the right to vote for or against unionization, and then through the way in which legal proceedings to determine that struggle excluded certain approaches associated with * Thanks to Marie Leger and the editorial group for their comments. -
Frameworks of Analysis
PART I Frameworks of Analysis INTRODUCTION Tony Bennett then examine the forms of cultural analysis that have been associated It is clear from our discussion in the general with the development of psychological and introduction that it is impossible to tie the sociological thought. Peter Burke’s discussion term ‘culture’ to a single concept or to a of cultural history provides a bridge into simple history of usage. It is better understood the next group of chapters focused mainly as referencing a network of loosely related on text-based disciplines. James English’s concepts that has been shaped by the relations account of the role that the analysis of form between the different histories and fields of has played in the development of literary usage with which the term has came to be studies is followed here by Tia DeNora’s entangled. A significant factor here has been consideration of music as both text and the different meanings deriving from the ways performance. Mieke Bal then examines the in which the concept has been used and relations between art history and the more interpreted in the social science disciplines recent development of visual culture studies. one the one hand and in the humanities The next two chapters – Tom Gunning’s on the other. These different disciplinary discussion of film studies and Toby Miller’s articulations of the concept are the focus account of broadcasting – are concerned with of the contributions composing this first the forms of cultural analysis that have been part of the book, which also assesses how developed in relation to the two main media the ‘cultural turn’ has affected developments systems of the twentieth century. -
Examining the Relationship Between Cultural Capital and Self-Efficacy: a Mixed Design Study on Teachers
Athens Journal of Education - Volume 7, Issue 2, May 2020 – Pages 169-192 Examining the Relationship between Cultural Capital and Self-Efficacy: A Mixed Design Study on Teachers By Yunus Emre Avci, Rasim Tösten† & Çiğdem Çelik Şahin‡ Cultural capital expresses all the cultural acquisitions that individuals gain both through inheritance and through different channels in the course of their lives. Teachers' self-efficacy perceptions play an important role in their demonstrating more effort and responsibility to provide support to students' learning. The main purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between teachers' self- efficacies and cultural capital levels. The study was used an explanatory mixed method. In the quantitative part of the study, to measure cultural capital competencies of teachers, the "Cultural Capital Scale" developed by Tösten (2014) was used. As to measure teachers’ self-efficacy perceptions, the "Teachers’ Self-efficacy Scale" developed by Tschannen-Moran and Woolfolk Hoy (2001) and adapted into Turkish by Çapa, Çakıroğlu and Sarıkaya (2005) was used. In the qualitative part of the study, a structured interview form developed by the researchers was used. 885 458 teachers working in Turkey compose the population of the quantitative part of the study. 2452 teachers determined by the stratified sampling technique participated in the study in the academic year of 2016-2017. As the sample strata, the development classification of the Ministry of Development was taken as a basis. The study group of the qualitative part consisted of 29 teachers who were determined by the easily accessible sampling method. As a result of the study, it was determined that the teachers' self-efficacy perceptions were "fairly adequate" and their cultural capital competencies were "moderate." When the relationship between teachers' self-efficacy perceptions and cultural capital competencies is examined, it is observed that there is a "positive" relationship at the "moderate" level. -
Social Reproduction and Resistance to Secularization
Portland State University PDXScholar Dissertations and Theses Dissertations and Theses 1992 "Staying" and "straying" : social reproduction and resistance to secularization Lisa Graham McMinn Portland State University Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds Part of the Sociology Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation McMinn, Lisa Graham, ""Staying" and "straying" : social reproduction and resistance to secularization" (1992). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 4427. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.6305 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible: [email protected]. AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Lisa Graham McMinn for the Master of Science in Sociology presented April 28, 1992. Title: "Staying" and "Straying": Social Reproduction and Resistance to Secularization. APPROVED BY THE MEMBERS OF T COMMITTEE: Robert Everhart Martha Balshem Until the twentieth century, most American colleges were founded by churches. Their primary purpose was the preparation of godly clergy and laity. Impacted by trends that encouraged secularization, most of these schools changed their missions. Pluralistic values, ideologies which privileged scientific knowledge over religion, and technological demands were the most important pressures upon church-founded colleges. Most responded to state induced incentives (i.e. money for all but "pervasively religious" schools) by conforming to the secularizing trend. 2 While pluralism in America enables and gives respect to diversity, it is a double edged sword. Although pervasively religious institutions were allowed to exist, they did not receive the same measure of help from the state as did secular schools.