Essays on Cultural Capital

Education has largely been viewed as a means to secure employment and achieve upward social mobility (Carl,et al., 2012), especially so in meritocratic states such as Singapore. The idea of credentialism – the focus on academic qualifications in evaluating competency, perpetuates most industrialized society and…

How is a parent to raise a child properly given how much or how little they have? Cultural capital, concerted cultivation, and accomplishment of natural growth all play a large role in the outcome of a child’s life and could ultimately determine how successful a…

Cultural capital was first fully defined by Pierre Bourdieu in his 1986 article “The Forms of Capital,” contrasting this form of capital with economic and social capital. Bourdieu defines capital as “accumulated labor,” and acknowledges that economic theorists often are disinterested in it, but argues…

There are numerous studies that support Bourdieu’s structural, class-based theories as they pertain to sports participation. Many support the conclusion that sporting participation is stratified along socio-economic and demographic lines. Bourdieu (1978) asserts the importance of the upper class origins of sport that he saw…