This article examines evolving uses of Bourdieu's signature concept of Cultural Capital in
American educational research. Bourdieu originally developed the concept in the 1960s and …

To gain an in-depth understanding of legitimacy as a general social process, we review
contemporary approaches to legitimacy within two areas of sociology: social psychology and …

This book stems from my long-standing interest in elites. I collected the data while a PhD
student at Harvard University. I am deeply grateful to a variety of individuals for supporting …

Over the past two decades, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
faculty have been striving to make their teaching practices more inclusive and welcoming to …

Scholars typically view class socialization as an implicit process. This study instead shows
how parents actively transmit class-based cultures to children and how these lessons …

Evidence for Bourdieu's social reproduction theory and its contributions to understanding
educational inequality has been relatively mixed. Critics discount the usefulness of core …

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 …

In this article, we assess how the concept of cultural capital has been imported into the
English language, focusing on educational research. We argue that a dominant …

Education forms a unique dimension of social status, with qualities that make it especially
important to health. It influences health in ways that are varied, present at all stages of adult …

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 …