From Sociology (Bourdieu's Theory)
The sociologist Helga Nowotny (1981), drawing on Bourdieu’s conceptual framework, saw emotional capital as a variant of social capital, but characteristic of the private, rather than the public sphere (Nowotny 1981).
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