Cultural capital

Knowledge, language, skills and cultural familiarity that are valued by institutions such as schools and can give their possessors an advantage.

Knowledge, skills, attitudes and cultural familiarity that are valued by educational institutions and can give pupils and parents an advantage.

Cultural capital shifts attention towards the knowledge and skills that schools value. Parents familiar with the education system may know how to compare schools, challenge a decision or obtain useful learning resources. Their own educational experience may help them support homework.

Knowledge, skills, attitudes and familiarity with culturally valued activities that can give someone an advantage in education, often passed on within middle-class families.

For Ball, connect parental choice and school competition to unequal access to material resources and cultural capital.

Knowledge, skills and ways of speaking or behaving that can provide advantages within institutions such as schools.

Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital offers a different emphasis. Cultural capital is the knowledge, language and skills that institutions reward. If schools value middle-class ways of speaking and behaving, children already familiar with them start at an advantage.

Knowledge, language, skills and ways of behaving that are valued by institutions such as schools and can help people succeed within them.

Knowledge, language, tastes and other cultural resources that can provide advantages in institutions such as schools.

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