Principals’ Demographic Qualities and the Misuse of School Material Capital in Secondary Schools

Previous studies tend to have assessed principals' demographic variables, but with other dependent variables such as administrative effectiveness, job performance, students' achievement and so on. From the literature, principals' demographic qualities and the misuse of material, capital appears to have been under-assessed. This study used a quantitative approach to investigate some demographic attributes of principals and the misuse of school material capital in secondary schools. Using a questionnaire in Cross River State, Nigeria, data were gathered from a total of 667 secondary school administrators. Findings revealed significant differences in the misuse of school material capital by principals of different age, professional qualification and years of experience; although major disparities between male and female principals were not identified. More specifically, principals who were older, seasoned, and who possessed Bachelors and Masters of Education degrees were efficient managers of school material capital. A high rate of misuse was found among principals who were younger and inexperienced than their counterparts who were young, inexperienced, and possessed the post-graduate diploma in education, as well as, other professional academic qualifications unrelated to the field of education (e.g., HND, BSc., B.A and MSc.). Based on these findings, key implications were discussed for quality service delivery and administrative effectiveness.

Deprivation and Deservingness: Exploring Basic Income in Response to Immigrant Poverty

Research on the economic trends for immigrants to Canada shows a progressive trend towards impoverishment, particularly for racialized groups. This review presents the case that current responses to poverty in Canada are inadequate, and tend to perpetuate the cycles they seek to address by reifying group divides. Building on theories of social exclusion, this MRP explores the potential of basic income to create greater access to social and material capital for otherwise marginalized groups. Finally, by looking at current policy approaches to welfare, public attitudes towards redistribution, and historic BIG trials, the argument is made that with non-moral framing a basic income trial in Canada could be both politically feasible and destigmatizing.

Deprivation and Deservingness: Exploring Basic Income in Response to Immigrant Poverty

Research on the economic trends for immigrants to Canada shows a progressive trend towards impoverishment, particularly for racialized groups. This review presents the case that current responses to poverty in Canada are inadequate, and tend to perpetuate the cycles they seek to address by reifying group divides. Building on theories of social exclusion, this MRP explores the potential of basic income to create greater access to social and material capital for otherwise marginalized groups. Finally, by looking at current policy approaches to welfare, public attitudes towards redistribution, and historic BIG trials, the argument is made that with non-moral framing a basic income trial in Canada could be both politically feasible and destigmatizing.

Topical Issues of Sino-Australian Relations: Supply Chains Resilience and Australia’s Critical Infrastructure under China's Rule

In the course of the development of trade and economic processes in the Asia Pacific, Sino-Australian ties had become increasingly close. Australia has benefited from cooperation with China: it has become one of the leading exporters of natural resources both regionally and globally and has also attracted human and material capital, which has accelerated the development of the Fifth Continent as one of the most popular destinations for tourism and education in the region. However, with the development of trade relations between Australia and China, there were growing concerns that the high export dependence and investment in the Fifth Continent's infrastructure from China bear the risks. In this paper, the author will focus on some topical issues of Sino-Australian relations in 2020 — the first half of 2021. In particular, the author will consider the trade diversification and the perception of the Australian authorities of investments in critical infrastructure from the PRC.

From Visuality to Visibility: Regime, Capital, Media

SummaryVisibility is a capacity to be seen by others directly or through images and can be defined as a total social fact, which includes different domains of collective life. As Italian sociologist Andrea Mubi Brighenti argues, visibility is a form of “visuality at large” and the visible entails more than the visual, more than the sensorially perceptible, which becomes clear when we consider the fact that the visual itself needs to be visibilised, and examine the ways in which this happens. In the last decades visibility in a social sphere and media was largely “capitalised”. According to French sociologist Nathalie Heinich, the visibility capitalis firmly entrenched within Western society, culture and media. Non-material capital of visibility differs from other non-material symbolical or cultural capitals in Bourdieusian sense. This new phenomenon includes all features of classical material capital. The capital of visibility is measurable, accumulated, transmissible, earning interest and convertible. It can be measured by number of fans, showing results in Google search, number of views in YouTube, number of followers in social media Instagram, Facebook or number of images in other mass media.The cult of celebrity, the aspiration for visibility, and widespread practices of seeing within contemporary visual culture touched on many important social, political, cultural and intellectual spheres. Celebrity culture that arose out of the cinema industry underwent significant transformations, penetrated into existing social structures, fields and institutions. Visibility deeply changes cultural and intellectual life, influences our values and attitudes. The regime of visibility transforms social stratification by creating celebrities as a new social category called media elite. These persons are isolated from their original environment and placed in a context with its own logic and rules. These issues will be analysed using examples from the sphere of creative and cultural industries.

Reggae Music Community Practice in The City of Bontang (Descriptive Study of Bontang Reggae Community)

ABSTRACT: This study describes the practice of social life in the field of music in the city of Bontang, based on a sociological perspective using the generative formulation of the theory of Pierre Bourdieu (Habitus x Modal) + Ranah = Practice. This shows that the existence of the Bontang Reggae Community has produced several groups consisting of Reggae Grill, Slow Reggae, and Reggae Vibe groups as actors who practice in the realm of reggae music. This group was formed because of the different knowledge and understanding in the field of reggae music as a realm of space for social life, which then produced various habitus according to the realm of music in each group. Also, the existence of each group has been supported by the existence of a classification of capital which according to Bourdieu consists of four fundamental capitals including material capital, social capital, cultural capital, and symbolic capital. The three groups produce a practice resulting from dialectical relations through habitus-modal interactions in different and prominent domains of reggae music. The Reggae Grill group produces practices that come from symbolic capital, and circular habitus or the use of Cannabis, then the Slow Reggae group produces modern music practices that come from material capital and cultural capital, and the Reggae Vibe group produces solidarity practices that come from cultural capital and capital. symbolic, as well as group habitus. ABSTRAK: Penelitian ini menggambarkan praktik kehidupan sosial masyarakat pada bidang seni musik di kota Bontang, berdasarkan perspektif sosiologi dengan menggunakan rumusan generatif teori Pierre Bourdieu (Habitus x Modal) + Ranah = Praktik. Menunjukkan bahwa keberadaan Bontang Reggae Community telah melahirkan beberapa kelompok yang terdiri dari kelompok Reggae Grill, Slow Reggae, dan Reggae Vibe sebagai aktor yang melakukan praktik dalam ranah kehidupan seni musik reggae. Kelompok ini terbentuk karna adanya pengetahuan dan pemahaman yang berbeda-beda di bidang seni musik reggae sebagai ranah atau ruang kehidupan sosial, yang kemudian menghasilkan berbagai habitus sesuai dengan ranah musik pada masing-masing kelompok. Selain itu, keberadaan setiap kelompok telah didukung dengan adanya klasifikasi modal yang menurut Bourdieu terdiri dari keempat modal fundamental diantaranya adalah, modal material, modal sosial, modal kultural, dan modal simbolik. Ketiga kelompok tersebut menghasilkan sebuah praktik yang dihasilkan dari hubungan dialektis melalui interaksi habitus-modal dalam ranah musik reggae yang berbeda dan menonjol. Kelompok Reggae Grill menghasilkan praktik yang bersumber dari modal simbolik, dan habitus melingkar atau penggunaan Cannabis, kemudian kelompok Slow Reggae menghasilkan praktik musik modern yang bersumber dari modal material dan modal budaya, serta kelompok Reggae Vibe menghasilkan praktik solidaritas yang bersumber dari modal budaya, dan modal simbolik, serta habitus berkelompok.

Strategy and Struggle Of Street Vendors In Pasar Pagi Distric Of Samarinda

ABSTRACT: Strategies and Struggles of Street Vendors in Pasar Pagi Village, Samarinda City. This thesis stems from my curiosity about the reasons these actors choose street vendors as their realm of work. As well as regarding field practices and competition between fellow business actors from relatively small to relatively large capital. Practices in the field of actors in the realm of business do not only rely on material capital but also on social capital, cultural capital, and symbolic capital as a form of strategy for the actors to maintain their business. Street vendors, as businessmen with relatively small capital, are not only competing with fellow street vendors, but also with large capital owners. The strategy used by street vendors is to collect capital and convert their capital even though their capital is relatively small. There are various forms of capital and habitus that are owned by street vendors. This is all as a support for the actors to be able to continue to survive in this realm. The street vendor is a practice from the flow of life that is not on their side. The minimal material capital and the exclusion of these actors with large investors make them more struggling and have a strategy to be able to maintain their business. ABSTRAK: Strategi dan Perjuangan Pedagang Kaki Lima di Kelurahan Pasar Pagi Kota Samarinda. Skripsi ini bermula dari rasa ingin tahu saya tentang alasan para aktor ini memilih pedagang kaki lima sebagai ranah pekerjaan yang mereka jalani. Serta tentang praktik lapangan dan persaingan antara sesama pelaku bisnis dari yang bermodalkan relatif kecil sampai yang bermodalkan relatif besar. Praktik di lapangan para pelaku di ranah bisnis nyatanya bukan hanya mengandalkan modal material saja melainkan juga modal social, modal budaya dan modal simbolik sebagai bentuk strategi para actor dalam mempertahankan usahanya. Pedagang kaki lima sebagai pelaku bisnis yang bermodalkan relative kecil nyatanya bukan hanya bersaing dengan sesame pedagang kaki lima akan tetapi juga dengan para pemilik modal-modal besar. Strategi yang digunakan para pedagang kaki lima dari mengumpulkan modal dan mengkonversikan modal mereka lakoni walupun modal mereka relatf kecil. Bentuk variasai-variasi modal dan habitus yang dimiliki oleh pedagang kaki lima beraneka ragam. Ini semua sebagai penunjang para aktor untuk dapat terus bertahan dalam ranah ini. Pedagang kaki lima merupakan praktik dari arus kehidupan yang tidak memihak kepada mereka. Modal material yang minim serta tersisihkannya para aktor ini dengan para pemodal besar membuat mereka lebih berjuang dan memiliki strategi untuk dapat mempertahankan usaha mereka.