MEYAD Akademi

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Violence is a fact and phenomenon that we encounter in different types in almost every aspect of the social sphere. The concept of symbolic violence as an invisible form of violence is a concept closely related to communication sciences. Because all kinds of symbolic violence committed in the social sphere are constructed through a communication process. The aim of this study is to provide holistic information about the current status of studies on the concept of symbolic violence in the literatüre. Quantitative data analysis of the articles examined in the study was carried out using the bibliometric analysis method. The population of the study consists of 1287 articles obtained from the symbolic violence search in the Scopus database. The articles were analyzed by transferring them to the VOSviewer program. Study findings provide information about co-authorship networks of countries and institutions, the most used concepts in studies, citation maps of authors and studies, productivity of countries and institutions, bibliographic matches of authors and countries, and common network analyzes of authors. In the analysis results, the most productive countries with the highest number of network citations were found to be England (n= 224), America (n= 224) and Australia (n= 108). In the co-citation analysis, the authors with the highest link strength appear to be Bourdieu (n= 53272), Foucault (n= 5552) and Wacquant (n= 5387). In the network citation map of symbolic violence, the most cited authors are Galtung, Menjivar and Abrego, and Oakes, Townley and Cooper, while the most productive authors are Schubert, Bryan and Schwarz.