Education

Question 1

Social capital

Answer 1

Refers to membership of and involvement in elite social networks or moving within social groups which are well connected and influential

Question 2

Cultural capital

Answer 2

Gained within the family environment and through education, leading to increased knowledge and other credentials

Question 3

Symbolic capital

Answer 3

Refers to the prestige, status and other forms of social honour which enable those with high status to dominate those with lower status

Question 4

Habitus

Answer 4

Bourdieu concept which can be described as the learned dispositions - such as bodily contortment, ways of speaking or ways of thinking and acting - that are adopted by people in relation to their social conditions

Question 5

Three forms in which cultural capital can exist

Answer 5

Embodied state
Objectified state
Institutionalized state