cultural capital en · NOUN
Etymology
Calque of French capital culturel, coined by French sociologists Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron (1970).
Meanings
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(uncountable) The social assets of a person, such as education, intellect, style of speech or dress, etc. that promote social mobility.
[…]I had an excess of cultural capital and a lack of actual capital; […]
2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:[Carl] Wilson tends to side with the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, who argues that taste is never disinterested: It’s a form of social currency, or “cultural capital,” that we use to stockpile prestige.
2007 December 13, Sam Anderson, “Taster’s Choice”, in New York:If you like: if economic capital is what you have, cultural capital is what you know, social capital is whom you know. […] Unless educational resources make some attempt to reverse the flow of cultural capital transmitted in the home then the end result will be enhanced forms of cultural inequality.
2007, Tim Edwards, Cultural Theory, SAGE, →ISBN, page 265:
Coordinates
economic capital · political capital · sexual capital · human capital · social capital
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Translations (7)
de kulturelles Kapital (assets) · cmn 文化資本 /文化资本 (assets) · fi kulttuurinen pääoma (assets) · cs kulturní kapitál (assets) · pl kapitał kulturowy (assets) · fi kulttuuripääoma (assets) · fr capital culturel (assets)
wikipedia: Pierre Bourdieu · wikipedia: Jean-Claude Passeron