Talk:Symbolic capital/Archives/2015

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For thought/discussion. Comments welcome.

The idea of symbolic capitalism is a qualitative, undefineable (by accepted sociological methods) concept. The aggregate of several miltidisciplibary terms can more completely address this term.

First, the term symbolic capital is misleading. It's real capital that can be used.

Second, finance, political science, economics, and business methodologies recognize the specific type of capital being used; not symbolic, or ritualized hypothetical capital.

The concepts of political, military, economic, social, infrastructure, information, (physical) environment(al), and time (temporal) capital are more descriptive and can be used to generate actual answers.

There may be authors using this term, but it doesn't mean the term is correct. Separate, more complete terms exist to define this; I'd rather see a paragraph describing symbolic capital as a fuzzy amalgamation, more precisely and accuracy described in the previously noted categories. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Carpethefish (talk • contribs) 00:52, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Don't think this needs deletion: serious concept from Pierre Bourdieu.

Charles Matthews 10:46, 5 May 2004 (UTC)
 * But please, do improve! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.18.242.193 (talk • contribs) 19:17, 12 October 2006
 * Feel free to improve the article yourself, or at least make some constructive comments. The JPS talk to me  21:56, 12 October 2006 (UTC)