Cultural Capital
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- Created on: 01-04-16 15:12
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- Cultural Capital
- Bourdieu: three types of capital
- Educational and economic capital
- Can be converted into one another
- Middle class children with cultural capital are better equipped to meet demands of school curriculum and gain qualifications.
- Wealthier parents can convert their economic capital into educational capital by sending child to private school and can pay for extra tuition.
- Dennis Leech and Erick Campos' (2003) study
- Middle class parents more likely to afford house in catchment area if a school highly placed in exam league tables.
- Known as 'selection by mortgage' as it drives up cost of houses near successful schools.
- Middle class parents more likely to afford house in catchment area if a school highly placed in exam league tables.
- Can be converted into one another
- Educational and economic capital
- A test of Bourdieu's ideas
- Alice Sullivan (2001) used questionnaire to conduct a survey of 465 pupils in four schools.
- Asked them about range of activities e.g. reading, watching TV (habits) and whether they visited galleries, museums etc.
- Also tested vocab and knowledge of cultural figures.
- Those who read complex fiction and watched serious TV documentaries has a wider range of vocab and greater cultural knowledge.
- Children of greater knowledge were children of graduates and more likely to be successful at GCSE.
- Although successful pupils with greater cultural capital more likely to be middle class - cultural capital only accounted for part of class difference in achievement.
- Pupils of different classes had same level of cultural capital, middle class still did better
- Sullivan concludes that the greater resources and aspirations of middle class families explain the remainder of class group in achievement.
- Pupils of different classes had same level of cultural capital, middle class still did better
- Asked them about range of activities e.g. reading, watching TV (habits) and whether they visited galleries, museums etc.
- Alice Sullivan (2001) used questionnaire to conduct a survey of 465 pupils in four schools.
- Educational and economic capital
- Can be converted into one another
- Middle class children with cultural capital are better equipped to meet demands of school curriculum and gain qualifications.
- Wealthier parents can convert their economic capital into educational capital by sending child to private school and can pay for extra tuition.
- Dennis Leech and Erick Campos' (2003) study
- Middle class parents more likely to afford house in catchment area if a school highly placed in exam league tables.
- Known as 'selection by mortgage' as it drives up cost of houses near successful schools.
- Middle class parents more likely to afford house in catchment area if a school highly placed in exam league tables.
- Can be converted into one another
- Bourdieu: three types of capital
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