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 …

In this paper, we review research on parental expectations and their effects on student
achievement within and across diverse racial and ethnic groups. Our review suggests that …

In Negotiating Opportunities, Jessica McCrory Calarco argues that the middle class has a
negotiated advantage in school. Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Calarco …

The importance of maternal education for children's academic outcomes is widely
recognized, and yet the multiple potential mechanisms that explain this relationship are …

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 …

A growing body of research has examined how cultural capital, recently broadened to
include not only high-status cultural activities but also a range of different parenting …

Empirical research on cultural and social capital has generally ignored the key role of
institutions in setting standards that determine the contingent value of this capital …

Scholars routinely use cultural capital theory in an effort to explain class differences in
academic success but often overlook the key concept of habitus. Rich, longstanding debates …

Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 and the Postsecondary
Education Transcript Study, we assess the levels of cultural capital possessed by first …

This paper re-examines the purposes of a planned and intentional parenting style–
'concerted cultivation'–for different middle-class groups, highlighting that social class …