Gender as Symbolic Capital and Violence: The Case of Corporate Elites in Turkey
基于布尔迪厄理论，通过对63位土耳其企业精英的深度访谈，研究发现性别在企业精英中既作为象征资本也作为暴力存在，女性精英通过男性联盟获取地位，而男性精英对自身性别特权视而不见。
Based on a Bourdieusian approach, drawing on qualitative analyses of 63 life interviews, our study demonstrates that gender is performed as both symbolic capital and violence by corporate elites within the dominant ideologies of patriarchy and family in Turkey. Our analysis reveals that, in the male‐dominated context of Turkey, female elites appear to favour male alliances as a tactical move in order to acquire and maintain status in their organizations, whereas male elites appear to remain blind to the privileges and constraints of their own gendered experience of symbolic capital and violence. Our study also illustrates that gender order is still preserved, despite beliefs to the contrary that equality in education, skills, experience and job performance may liberate women and men from gender‐based outcomes at work.