Cultural capital in the academic market: The place of literature in performance studies

Hopkins, Mary Frances

doi:10.1080/03634529609379037

Communication Education

1996

DOI: 10.1080/03634529609379037

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Cultural capital in the academic market: The place of literature in performance studies

Mary Frances Hopkins

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“…For instance, capital has been used to examine political communication, civic participation, and the politics of expertise in academia (HopKins, 1996;Scheufele & Shah, 2000;Shah, Kwak, & Holbert, 2001). But such applications are still rare.…”

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The Mis/recognition of Enron Executives' Competence as Cultural and Social Capital

Lyon

2008

Communication Studies

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This case study examines Enron's top executives' activities through Bourdieu's notion of misrecognized competence or ''capital.'' Top executives' practices were misrecognized as valuable and legitimate competencies against the backdrop of the company's changing new-economy context. Most approaches to intellectual, social, and cultural capital assume their automatic value. In contrast, this essay shows that the perceived value of executives' practices was the result of Enron's context and executives' communicative efforts to position their own contributions as the most important. As outsiders scrutinized the company, however, executives' activities were exposed as self-serving and primary contributors to Enron's troubles.Recent texts explore the concepts of intellectual, social, and cultural capital as ways to account for previously hidden assets (e.g.

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The Mis/recognition of Enron Executives' Competence as Cultural and Social Capital

Lyon

2008

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Autoethnography's Family Values: Easy Access to Compulsory Experiences

Gingrich-Philbrook¹

2005

Text and Performance Quarterly

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Staging and intertextualizing Franz Kafka’s “in the penal colony”

Schares

2023

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Cultural capital in the academic market: The place of literature in performance studies

Cited by 3 publications

References 5 publications

The Mis/recognition of Enron Executives' Competence as Cultural and Social Capital

The Mis/recognition of Enron Executives' Competence as Cultural and Social Capital

Autoethnography's Family Values: Easy Access to Compulsory Experiences

Staging and intertextualizing Franz Kafka’s “in the penal colony”

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