Drawing upon Bourdieu's theories of social and cultural capital, a number of studies of the
higher education environment have indicated that students who are first-in-family to come to …

This article provides new estimates of the causal effect of cultural capital on academic
achievement. The author analyzes data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth …

We use the Great British Class Survey to examine the association between social
background, university attended and social position for over 85,000 graduates. This unique …

To what extent and why do social origins matter for access to higher education, including
access to elite universities? What is the role of private and selective schooling? This paper …

School-related cultural capital refers to the skills, habits, identities, worldviews, preferences
or values that students enact in schools and that affect their school success. This chapter …

Konrád and Szelényi posed a powerful critique of state socialism with their formulation of the
new class theory suggesting that intellectuals were “on the road to class power.” Using a …

Our study analyses connections between the economic and cultural capital of the families of
international students, their study choices, and postgraduation returns. Thus far, research on …

More empirical evidence is needed to answer the question of in what way a family's
socioeconomic status (SES) affects student academic achievement, so this study explores …

The traditional discourse in the scholarship on cultural capital theory has focused on how
exclusive participation in elite status culture by students from higher socioeconomic status …

We use National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) data and a counterfactual
approach to test the macro-level implications of cultural reproduction and cultural mobility …