Roya Yazdanpanah; Shapour Behyan; Esmaeil Jahanbakhsh
Abstract
Social approval can be considered as a type of symbolic capital, which is one of the means for social growth during childhood, and incorporates the individual's inclination toward presenting an appropriate image of himself to others. Achievement of social approval has influenced and impacted all of the ...
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Social approval can be considered as a type of symbolic capital, which is one of the means for social growth during childhood, and incorporates the individual's inclination toward presenting an appropriate image of himself to others. Achievement of social approval has influenced and impacted all of the aspects of our lives and social behavior within both social relations and larger structures of social organizations. Social approval and its attainment leaves numerous effects on the members of the community, and leads to social freshness. Thus, study of the impactful factors on social approval can be highly useful and important. This article studies the impact of cultural capital and its aspects on social approval based on Pierre Bourdieu's manners and field theory. The statistical community of this study is the individuals from the 50s, 60s, and 70s generations (18-47 year olds) in the city of Tehran, out of which 400 individuals have been selected as samples for this research. Furthermore, the data needed for this study have been gathered via presentation of a questionnaire based on the field method. The analysis of data has been carried out based on SPSS and AMOS software. The results of the study manifested that there is a meaningful relationship and impact between cultural capital and its aspects with social approval. The outcomes of the structural model test show cultural capital leaves a direct impact on social approval (Beta: 0.62). Moreover, the cultural capital structure has managed to explain 38% of the changes of social approval structure.
