Meaning of cultural capital | Babel Free

Definitions

The social assets of a person, such as education, intellect, style of speech or dress, etc. that promote social mobility.

uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“If you like: if economic capital is what you have, cultural capital is what you know, social capital is whom you know. […] Unless educational resources make some attempt to reverse the flow of cultural capital transmitted in the home then the end result will be enhanced forms of cultural inequality.”

“[Carl] Wilson tends to side with the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, who argues that taste is never disinterested: It’s a form of social currency, or “cultural capital,” that we use to stockpile prestige.”

“[…]I had an excess of cultural capital and a lack of actual capital; […]”

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