Social Class : Cultural Capital

• Cultural Capital

  Bourdieu states that the culture of education gives an inbuilt advantage to the middle class.Each social class possesses its own cultural framework known as habitus; each habitus contains ideas about what is good/bad taste, good/bad knowledge, good/bad attitudes and so on.
• Cultural Capital

  Bourdieu

  The dominant group get to impose (force) their habitus onto society and its institutions, including education. This means that the habitus being promoted in the education system is the habitus of the middle and upper classes. This puts the working class at a disadvantage as they are not familiar with these social norms and values.
• Cultural Capital

  Sullivan claims that GCSE students who read complex fiction, watched serious TV documentaries and who had graduate parents developed wider vocabularies and achieved higher than other students - these students tended to be from middle class income families.
• Cultural Capital

  Putnam 'Social Capital'. Putnam states that social networking is an important factor when realising one's potential. An individuals' levels of Social Capital impacts highly on an individuals' life chances,