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Social classes and subaltern groups: Theoretical distinction and political application
(2018-02-01)
The purpose of this article is to draw a theoretical distinction between the notions of ‘social classes’ and ‘subaltern groups’ as defined in The Prison Notebooks by Antonio Gramsci. This distinction will involve a brief ...
The Uses of Informality: Urban Development and Social Distinction in México City
(SAGE Publications, 2017-05)
La “informalidad urbana” es un significante que es cuestionado por las empresas de bienes raíces, los políticos y los residentes cuando se involucran en estrategias de distinción social para obtener determinados beneficios ...
Culture and the Distinctiveness Motive: Constructing Identity in Individualistic and Collectivistic Contexts
(AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC, 2012)
The motive to attain a distinctive identity is sometimes thought to be stronger in, or even specific to, those socialized into individualistic cultures. Using data from 4,751 participants in 21 cultural groups (18 nations ...
Trust and reciprocity: A theoretical distinction of the sources of social capital
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2011)
The social capital literature has focused on the functional and structural properties of social relations, partially neglecting the way in which they are experienced by individuals. Drawing on anthropological and social ...
The aristocracy of the will: a critique of Pierre Bourdieu with illustrations from Chile
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2012)
While the consumption of cultural products has for long been recognised as a marker of social status, cultural consumption constitutes only one possible type of high status signal. Ethical preferences and religiously ...
Segregação e distinção social na arquitetura residencial da região metropolitana de São Paulo: o condomínio clube Auge Home ResortSegregation and social distinction in residencial architecture of the São Paulo metropolitan area: the Auge Home Resort club condominium
(Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), 2016)
The use of Pierre Bourdieu's distinction concepts in scientific articles studying food and eating: A narrative review
(Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd, 2016)
This article reviews and discusses scientific papers on eating practices that have used Pierre Bourdieu's concepts presented in Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. It aims to synthesize and analyze ...
Cartesian thought and the foundation of sociology
(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, 2020-12)
This paper analyses the foundations of the so-called mathesis universalis, and how this notion, proposed by Descartes in the 17th century, has had significant implications in the origin and constitution (much later) of two ...