Cultural capital

• What is the term used to describe the non-financial social assets that promote social mobility?

  Cultural capital
• Who proposed the concept of cultural capital?

  Pierre Bourdieu
• How do middle-class parents influence their children's education according to Bourdieu?

  They encourage interest in books and culture
• What do middle-class parents stress the importance of?

  Education, especially university
• What is a common issue faced by working-class children regarding cultural capital?

  They experience a lack of cultural capital
• What challenge do working-class children face in acquiring cultural capital?

  Capital acquisition is difficult
• How do teachers' backgrounds affect cultural capital in schools?

  Many teachers are from middle and upper-class backgrounds
• What do middle-class parents have that helps them increase cultural capital?

  Economic resources to invest time and money
• How do schools often value cultural capital?

  They value middle-class ways of behaving and learning
• What advantage do middle-class children have in terms of symbolic power?

  They acquire symbolic power and avoid working-class behaviors
• What is the perception of middle-class children's tastes compared to working-class children's tastes?

  Middle-class tastes are seen as having greater value
• What does Bourdieu suggest about the dominance of working-class culture?

  It contributes to their underachievement
• What method did Alice Sullivan use to research cultural capital?

  Questionnaire survey
• How many students participated in Sullivan's research?

  465 students
• What aspects of cultural capital did Sullivan's questionnaire measure?

  Tastes in books, music, and cultural visits
• What conclusion did Sullivan reach about cultural capital's effect on GCSE performance?

  Cultural capital significantly affects GCSE performance
• What criticism did Sullivan have regarding Bourdieu's concepts?

  They are unhelpfully vague and hard to operationalise
• What aspect of individual behavior did Sullivan claim Bourdieu did not account for?

  Individual agency and choice
• How does Sullivan view the impact of cultural capital on educational success?

  It only partly explains social class effects
• What are the key points of Bourdieu's theory of cultural capital?

  • Middle-class parents encourage cultural interests
  • Middle-class parents stress education importance
  • Schools value middle-class cultural capital
  • Working-class children lack cultural capital
  • Teachers often perpetuate middle-class values
  • Middle-class parents can invest in cultural capital
  • Middle-class behaviors are valued in schools
  • Middle-class children gain symbolic power
  • Working-class culture dominance leads to underachievement
• What are the strengths and weaknesses of Sullivan's research on cultural capital?

  Strengths:

  • Large sample size (465 students)
  • Measures various cultural interests

  
  

  Weaknesses:

  • Critiques Bourdieu's vagueness
  • Does not fully account for individual agency
  • Only partially explains educational success
• What is the relationship between poverty and educational capital?

  Poverty limits access to educational capital