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Toward a Dynamic Model: Habitus, Fields, and a Tale of Two Manchus

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This chapter returns to the hotly debated concept of social capital. Scholars have mostly emphasized its structuralism as the attribute of embedded resources, neglecting its constructivism, which inevitably led to a missing link in dialectically understanding social capital as a practical concept. This chapter uses the specific case of interactions between General Gengyao Nian (Nian) and Emperor Yongzheng (Yong) in the Qing Dynasty of China to further explain the concept. Moreover, Pierre Bourdieu’s important terms “habitus” and “field” are introduced to address the paradoxes splitting the historical reality and theoretic expatiation. Primitive explanatory models are proposed to probe the genesis, attributes, and measurement of social capital.

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Chen, Y. (2022). Toward a Dynamic Model: Habitus, Fields, and a Tale of Two Manchus. In: Causal Effects of Social Capital. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5912-7_12

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