Inequalities in Cultural Capital in Tehran
AbstractCultural turn in contemporary society has undoubtedly turned culture into a major arena for the production and representation of social gaps and inequalities. The interplay of inequalities in access to the capitals and urban life has rarely been a topic for systematic empirical studies in Ir...
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| description | AbstractCultural turn in contemporary society has undoubtedly turned culture into a major arena for the production and representation of social gaps and inequalities. The interplay of inequalities in access to the capitals and urban life has rarely been a topic for systematic empirical studies in Iran. Relying on a large scale representative survey recently conducted in Tehran, this paper aims to reveal the unequal distribution of cultural capital in Tehran and also to reveal the mechanisms the residents employ both to produce and to display cultural capital. The findings while clarifying the prospects of inequalities in different dimensions of urban cultural capital, highlight the ways cultural capital both affects and is affected by urban [physical] spaces and urban life. This conclusion while uncovering some of the inadequacies related to current cultural capital literature, offers new concepts and spheres by which social inequalities can be conceived in the context of Iranian society. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e6c65c2e645c4a8b95b9a9484af0b58d2024-11-13T11:14:37ZfasIranian Institute for Social and Cultural StudiesTaḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān2008-18472476-50582016-02-018416919610.7508/ijcr.2015.32.007296Inequalities in Cultural Capital in TehranMohammad Saeed Zokaei0Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Allameh Tabataba’i UniversityAbstractCultural turn in contemporary society has undoubtedly turned culture into a major arena for the production and representation of social gaps and inequalities. The interplay of inequalities in access to the capitals and urban life has rarely been a topic for systematic empirical studies in Iran. Relying on a large scale representative survey recently conducted in Tehran, this paper aims to reveal the unequal distribution of cultural capital in Tehran and also to reveal the mechanisms the residents employ both to produce and to display cultural capital. The findings while clarifying the prospects of inequalities in different dimensions of urban cultural capital, highlight the ways cultural capital both affects and is affected by urban [physical] spaces and urban life. This conclusion while uncovering some of the inadequacies related to current cultural capital literature, offers new concepts and spheres by which social inequalities can be conceived in the context of Iranian society.http://www.jicr.ir/article_296_bc5881fe134714c43458f9054718500c.pdfurban cultural capitalcultural inequalitiessocial inequalitiesurban cultureturning capitalsreligious capital |
| spellingShingle | Mohammad Saeed Zokaei Inequalities in Cultural Capital in Tehran Taḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān urban cultural capital cultural inequalities social inequalities urban culture turning capitals religious capital |
| title | Inequalities in Cultural Capital in Tehran |
| title_full | Inequalities in Cultural Capital in Tehran |
| title_fullStr | Inequalities in Cultural Capital in Tehran |
| title_full_unstemmed | Inequalities in Cultural Capital in Tehran |
| title_short | Inequalities in Cultural Capital in Tehran |
| title_sort | inequalities in cultural capital in tehran |
| topic | urban cultural capital cultural inequalities social inequalities urban culture turning capitals religious capital |
| url | http://www.jicr.ir/article_296_bc5881fe134714c43458f9054718500c.pdf |
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