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SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CAPITAL - THE NEED OF A REDEFINITION OF CONCEPTS IN THE CONTEXT OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL CHANGES
Agnieszka JURCZAK1
Human Individuals and Collectives in a Global Technological Setting
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (96-97) 2018, Publication date: 5 June 2018
Keywords: social capital, cultural capital, socio-cultural capital, social change
Abstract The aim of the article is a critical evaluation of the concepts of social and cultural capital from the social sciences literature in the context of social changes currently taking place. On the basis of the analysis of these categories, the text presents a proposal to merge the two mentioned capitals (socio-cultural capital). Emerging in this way hybrid clearly indicates the mutual conditions between social networks, attitudes, norms, values, trust and meaning of the family in the process of their acquisition by the individual in the course of socialization. Both social change and two discussed capitals depend on cultural factors that condition each other. This phenomenon is deepened by the requirements of the market economy, which in the modern world constantly imposes changing principles of the functioning and cooperation of individuals, requiring them at the same time the ability to constantly adapt to the new conditions.The concept of combining two capitals proposed in the article was preceded by a theoretical discussion of the most important concepts of social capital (James Coleman, Robert Putnam, Francis Fukuyama), cultural capital (Pierre Bourdieu, Paul DiMaggio, Alice Sullivan) and social change theory.
Instytut Socjologii Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego Jana Pawła II
E-mail: aga.jurczak@o2.pl