Cultural Capital

Buchbeitrag

Cultural capital is usually defined as set of social features that provide individuals with social mobility and the possibility of changing their hierarchical position in systems such as wealth, power, prestige, education, and health. Cultural capital thus affects the processes of social promotion or degradation. It also includes social characteristics that allow horizontal mobility, that is, changes in social group membership. An individual's cultural capital includes his or her social origin, education, taste, lifestyle, style of speech, and dress.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: In: The Wiley-Blackwell Concise Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies ; Year: 2015 ; Pages: 209-214 ; Ed(s).: Cook,D. T. ; Ryan, J. M. ; ISBN: 9781118989463 ; Hoboken: Wiley

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth ; Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology: General
• Subject: Consumer Studies ; Consumption ; Cultural Capital ; Pierre Bourdieu ; socialization ; resources ; inequality ; class

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Klimczuk, Andrzej
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Wiley ; ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
• (where): Hoboken
• (when): 2015

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1002/9781118989463.wbeccs083
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/230396
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET