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 …

We review the organizational literature on power in light of Bourdieu's concept of capital to
further a political capital perspective on power in organizations. In reviewing the literature …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This report was commissioned by the Higher Education Funding Council for England
(HEFCE). It explores why different types of student achieve different outcomes in UK higher …

In this paper we use new data on Danish monozygotic (MZ) twins to analyze the effect of
cultural capital on educational success. We report three main findings. First, cultural capital …

This paper analyzes the effects of grandparents' economic, cultural, and social capital on
grandchildren's educational success. We analyze data from Denmark and hypothesize that …

Are socioeconomic inequalities in education declining? Is socioeconomic background
becoming less important for people's occupational class or status? How important is …