The resources owned by an individual that serve as a marker of her or his status; ‘the material display of social status and how it is structurally constrained’ (Sweet (2011) Am. J. Public Health 101, 2, 260). Forset and Johnson (2002) AAAG 92, 3 discuss the role of symbolic capital in Moscow in the transformation of national identity. See Matos-Wasem (2005) J. Alpine Res. 93, 1 on ‘good’ air—a slightly diagonal usage of the term ‘symbolic capital’.