Field theory in cultural capital studies of educational attainment |
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Authors: | Troels Krarup |
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Affiliation: | Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies (MaxPo), Paris, France |
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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. |
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Keywords: | Bourdieu cultural capital field theory educational attainment |
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