Digital use as a mechanism to accrue economic capital: a Bourdieusian perspective

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 464-482

  Lissitsa, Sabina ^a  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

digital inequality; digital uses; economic capital; social stratification

Indexed keywords

HUMAN CAPITAL; INTERNET; MINORITY GROUP; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY;

ISRAEL;

EID: 84945475099     PISSN: 13511610     EISSN: 14698412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13511610.2015.1081557     Document Type: Article

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