Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University International Social Sciences Congress, Çanakkale, Türkiye, 5 - 06 Temmuz 2021
Special days or broadly speaking occasions such as
anniversaries, holidays, memorial days in order to ratchet up the awareness in
public have ritually become a part of popular culture since the advent of
information technologies. These days do not only inform and raise people’s
awareness on diversified issues but are an element of the industry of culture
and consumption by inventing the novel traditions and herby patterns of
cultural capital as well. When talking about the cultural reproduction in a post-capitalized
industry, Pierre Bourdieu is one of the leading names in social sciences. To
him, the cultural capital is a form of competency that enables the identities, behaviors,
and skills of dominant groups in the reproduction of societal spaces — so to speak, social
milieu forcibly transmit to sub-groups at the hands of educational and familial
traits. Notwithstanding family and education still being able to be discussed
through Bourdieu’s conceptualization today, the constituents of popular culture
like the special occasions, trends, habits and new age movements also pave the
way for the cultural capital to obtain both a global and digital aspect given
that taking into account escalating rates at and easing the use of social media
tools. This paper therefore seeks to explore the nexus between globalized industry
of popular culture and the novel ways to expand the cultural capital by utilizing
the special days.