cultural capital
KUL-cher-ul KAP-ih-tul
ˈkʌltʃərəl ˈkæpɪtəlListen
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a concept developed by French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu to describe the non-financial social assets — including knowledge, educational credentials, aesthetic sensibilities, language, and cultural tastes — that confer social advantage and mobility within a particular field or society; cultural capital may exist in embodied form as dispositions and skills, in objectified form as books and artworks, or in institutionalised form as academic qualifications; it interacts with economic and social capital to determine an individual's position in the social hierarchy
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