cultural capital

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English

Etymology

Calque of French capital culturel, coined by French sociologists Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron (1970).

Noun

cultural capital (uncountable)

  1. (sociology) The social assets of a person, such as education, intellect, style of speech or dress, etc. that promote social mobility.
    Coordinate terms: economic capital, human capital, political capital, social capital, sexual capital
    • 2007, Tim Edwards, Cultural Theory, SAGE, →ISBN, page 265:
      If you like: if economic capital is what you have, cultural capital is what you know, social capital is whom you know. […] Unless educational resources make some attempt to reverse the flow of cultural capital transmitted in the home then the end result will be enhanced forms of cultural inequality.
    • 2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:
      […] I had an excess of cultural capital and a lack of actual capital; […]

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