cultural capital
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cultural capital
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Calque of French capital culturel, coined by French sociologists Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron (1970).
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- The social assets of a person, such as education, intellect, style of speech or dress, etc. that promote social mobility. 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.
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noun assets
| 中文 | 文化資本 /文化资本 |
|---|---|
| Français | capital culturel |
| Deutsch | kulturelles Kapital |
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title = {cultural capital},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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