The authors draw on Pierre Bourdieu's theory of cultural reproduction to develop a formal
model of the pathways through which cultural capital acts to enhance children's educational …

The theories of cultural reproduction and cultural mobility have largely shaped the study of
the effects of cultural capital on academic outcomes. Missing in this debate has been a …

Empirical studies on cultural capital have never fully operationalized the concept using
indicators of all three states distinguished by Bourdieu, ie, institutionalized, embodied and …

Bourdieu's theory of cultural reproduction posits that social class differences in cultural
capital and habitus begin in early childhood and cumulate over time. While the theory …

Bourdieu's theory of cultural reproduction has been interpreted in various ways, and several
authors have criticised an overly narrow interpretation of cultural capital as simply consisting …

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 …

Within the sociology of education most conceptualizations of cultural capital within empirical
research focus on high status cultural participation. A smaller, parallel body of work …

Studies of the effects of cultural capital on the educational success of male and female
students have reached contradictory conclusions, and few studies have considered the role …

One of the central goals of sociological studies of education has been to understand the role
of schools in society. Do schools promote equal opportunity? Do schools help to recreate …

This paper tests two competing explanations of differences in returns to cultural capital
across schooling environments: Cultural reproduction (cultural capital yields a higher returns …