Cultural Capital - Bathmaker et al (2013)

Question 1

Describe the study conducted by Bathmaker et al

Answer 1

• findings of a longitudinal study involving 41 middle-class students and 40 working-class students from Bristol uni (south-west England)
• relationship between cultural capital, social capital, economic capital and university study

Question 2

What did the study discover? (4)

Answer 2

• middle-class ’better equipped’ for success, using social capital to organise relevant work experience, placement heard and join societies
• ‘adding value to their degree
• knew how to ‘play the game’
• university helped **widen social class differences in achievement*

Question 3

Eval regarding the findings of this study?

Answer 3

• are they truly representative?
• this is from the south west of England, and there is a ‘north-south’ divide in many aspects of education, which could have an impact