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Flashcards in Cultural Capital Deck (6)
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Bordieu (1984)

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  • Believes both material and cultural factors contribute.

- Uses the term ‘capital’ to explain why middle class are more successful.

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Cultural Capital

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  • Refers to the knowledge, attitudes, values, language, tastes and abilities of the middle class.
  • More likely to develop intellectual interests and an understanding of what the education system requires for success.
  • Education system favours and transmits
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Educational Capital

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  • Qualifications acquired at school.
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Conversion of capital

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  • Middle classes are better equipped to acquire educational capital.
  • Middle classed parents can convert economic capital into educational capital for their children.
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Leech and Campos

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middle class parents are also more likely to be able to afford a house in a catchment area for good schools.

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Sullivan

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Found that children who had the greatest cultural capital were more likely to be successful at GCSE (also more likely to be middle-class)