Topic > The Importance of Cultural Capital - 1537

Cultural capital allows individuals from middle- and upper-class backgrounds to obtain more post-secondary degrees and this helps them obtain high-paying jobs in the labor market that will maintain or strengthen their position in society scale. The concept of cultural capital can be seen in different forms such as Embodied Cultural Capital, where basically learned beliefs, habits, languages, ideals and work ethic from their immediate social environment, for example by learning language and professional skills from one's family . Another form of cultural capital is objectified cultural capital which includes the physical resources passed down to an individual, it also includes the ability to obtain or afford such resources, examples of these resources are laptops and textbooks which can be very expensive. The third form is institutionalized cultural capital which is based on the level of education, this cultural capital influences the social position of those who have more (degrees and diplomas) in the current job market which is based on credentialism. This article also focused on how cultural capital is passed down from parents to children: it is mostly an inherited trait or resource. Parents who have high cultural capital will pass it on to theirs