Field theory in cultural capital studies of educational attainment

Troels Krarup () and Martin Munk
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Troels Krarup: Sciences Po - Sciences Po
Martin Munk: AAU - Aalborg University [Denmark]

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Abstract: This article argues that there is a double problem in international research in cultural capital and educational attainment: an empirical problem, since few new insights have been gained within recent years; and a theoretical problem, since cultural capital is seen as a simple hypothesis about certain isolated individual resources, disregarding the structural vision and important related concepts such as field in Bourdieu's sociology. We (re-)emphasize the role of field theory in cultural capital research in education, taking into consideration current concerns in international quantitative research.

Keywords: Bourdieu; Cultural capital; Field theory; Educational attainment; Field Theory; Cultural Capital; Educational Attainment; Isolated Effects; Structural Effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Published in British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2016, 37 (5), pp.761-779. ⟨10.1080/01425692.2014.969398⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2014.969398

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