Cultural capital Flashcards
‘educational capital’, ‘economic capital’ and ‘cultural capital’
-m/c possess all three
CC-refers to attitudes, values, tastes etc. of the m/c ans this gives children the ability to think, analyze and express abstract ideas which are highly rewarded skills
the education system is not neutral- it favors and transmits the dominant m/c culture as ‘rough’ and ‘inferior’- w/c pupils ‘get the message’ that school is not for people like them and respond by truancy or just not trying
E/EC can be converted into one another, example: wealthier parents can turn economic capital into educational capital by sending children to private schools/ paying for extra tuition
m/c parents can afford to move into catchment areas of a school because it is highly places in the exam league tables- this drives up costs of houses around schools and excludes w/c fam
conducted a survey of 465 pupils in 4 schools:
-pupils with the greates cultural capital—> children of graduates (more likely to be successful at GCSE’s)- this only accounted for part of the class difference in achievement
-pupils who has the same level of CC still did not do betetr than m/c students
-greater resources and aspirations of m/c fam explain the remainder of the class gap in achievement
