EDUCATION: Class and education - External factors (Cultural Capital Bourdieu)

Question 1

What are the 3 types of capital

Answer 1

• Economic
• Educational capital
• Cultual capital

Question 2

Economic capital

- What

Answer 2

WHAT: Wether parents could convert economic capital into educational capital = private schools, tuition

Question 3

Educational capital

- What

Answer 3

WHAT: MC children with cultural capital are better equipped to meet demands of the school curriculum and gain qualifications
- They often know and have networks of schools?

Question 4

Cultural capital

- What

Answer 4

• Knowledge, attitude, values and language of the MC which gives them an advantage
• Combination of economic and educational capital = advantage in education

Question 5

Cultural capital
- Sullivan
what
conclusion

• Leech
  What
• Gewritz

Answer 5

SULLIVAN: Surveyed pupils in schools about their lives, vocabulary and knowledge of cultural figures
- Greater cultural capital in those who read literary books and visited museums and watched documentaries
Conclusion:These pupils were more likely to be successful in GCSE, and were mainly MC

LEECH: Study of coventry
- MC parents could afford house in catchment areas = ‘selection by mortgage’

GEWRITZ: 3 types of parents