Cultural capital and educational attainment.
According to Bourdieu's theory of cultural reproduction, children from middle-class families are advantaged in gaining educational credentials due to their possession of cultural capital. In order to assess this theory, I have developed a broad operationalisation of the concept of cultural capital,...
| Publicado en: | Sociology Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 893 - 913 |
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Sage Publications, Ltd.
November 2001
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