Class and Educational Achievement ( EXTERNAL FACTORS ) - 3. Cultural Capital

Question 1

What did Bordieu argued about what 2 factors contribute to educational achievement?

Answer 1

BOTH Cultural & Material factors contribute to educational achievement

Question 2

What did Bourdieu use the concept of ‘ capital ‘ to explain ?

Answer 2

‘ Capital ‘ explains why M/C ARE MORE SUCCESSFUL

Question 3

What does Cultural Capital refer to?

Answer 3

Refers to the knowledge, attributes, values, abilities of the M/C

Question 4

How does Bordieu see the M/C culture as a form of Capital?

Answer 4

As it gives an advantage to those who posses the M/C culture

More likely to develop intellectual interest and understand what the education system requires for success.

Question 5

How does the W/C contrast the advantage of M/C culture ?

Answer 5

W/C children find EDUCATION DEVALUES THEIR CULTURE as ‘ rough ‘ or inferior - LACK of CULTURAL CAPITAL leads to EXAM FAILURE

Question 6

How do M/C parents covert Economic capital , to Cultural Capital , to Educational capital ?

Answer 6

M/C parents use their Economic Capital to help gain Cultural Capital ( e.g. private schooling ) so that their children can acquire greater Educational Capital ( qualifications)

Therefore M/C children are better equipped to meet demands of school curriculum

Question 7

What is an Evaluation point that test’s Bordieux’s ideas of Cultural Capital?
Sullivan

Answer 7

Sullivan found that CULTURAL CAPITAL only accounted for PART of the CLASS DIFFERENCE IN ACHIEVEMENT

Greater Resources and Aspirations of the M/C explain the remainder of the class gap in education