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The Enterprising Science project developed a survey to measure science capital and extended the concept of science capital beyond homes and into schools and museums. [13] Science capital is being used to develop strategies for teaching in primary and secondary schools [14] and to develop measures of science capital for adults.
Human capital or human assets is a concept used by economists to designate personal attributes considered useful in the production process.It encompasses employee knowledge, skills, know-how, good health, and education. [1]
Quizlet was founded in 2005 by Andrew Sutherland as a studying tool to aid in memorization for his French class, which he claimed to have "aced". [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Quizlet's blog, written mostly by Andrew in the earlier days of the company, claims it had reached 50,000 registered users in 252 days online. [ 9 ]
Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1992 is a 1990 book by the American political scientist Charles Tilly. The central theme of the book is state formation . Tilly writes about the complex history of European state formation from the Middle Ages to the 1990s – a thousand-year time span.
In sociology, academic capital is the potential of an individual's education and other academic experience to be used to gain a place in society. Much like other forms of capital (social, economic, cultural), academic capital doesn't depend on one sole factor—the measured duration of schooling—but instead is made up of many different factors, including the individual's academic ...
Embodied cultural capital comprises the knowledge that is consciously acquired and passively inherited, by socialization to culture and tradition. Unlike property, cultural capital is not transmissible, but is acquired over time, as it is impressed upon the person's habitus (i.e., character and way of thinking), which, in turn, becomes more receptive to similar cultural influences.
Capital accumulation is the dynamic that motivates the pursuit of profit, involving the investment of money or any financial asset with the goal of increasing the initial monetary value of said asset as a financial return whether in the form of profit, rent, interest, royalties or capital gains.
Higher education at a madrasa (or college) was focused on Islamic law and religious science and students had to engage in self-study for everything else. [5] And despite the occasional theological backlash, many Islamic scholars of science were able to conduct their work in relatively tolerant urban centers (e.g., Baghdad and Cairo ) and were ...