<![CDATA[Amid Indonesia's socio-economic precarity, urban working-class households increasingly undergo a structural shift from traditional vertical "sandwich generation" burdens to expanded, horizontal extended kinship reliance. This study investigates how social capital is constructed and represented as an intentional, structural survival strategy in the film 1 Kakak 7 Ponakan. Utilizing a qualitative content analysis approach grounded in a constructionist paradigm, specific cinematic sequences portraying social capital mobilization were selected through purposive sampling. The textual analysis integrates Roland Barthes' Semiotics, Pierre Bourdieu's Social Capital Framework, and Stuart Hall's Representation Theory (Barthes, 1972). The findings reveal that social capital serves as a functional substitute for absent financial capital through an informal credit system, while driving a habitus shift in family roles and traditional masculinity. Furthermore, the critical discussion highlights an ideological containment: the film romanticizes horizontal familial solidarity through the cultural myth of gotong royong, thereby naturalizing systemic structural neglect as a private moral duty (Barker, 2019). This study contributes to bridging textual film semiotics with structural sociology in modern Southeast Asian media studies.]]>
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