Midiendo capital cultural interiorizado

Cultural Capital and Educational Attainment

Cultural capital theory vs . cultural policy beliefs : How Pierre

This paper explores the possible uses of Bourdieu‟s cultural capital theory in the making of French state cultural policy. It focuses on the following paradox: this theory had an important if not predominant impact on the intellectual background and expertise of cultural policy, but only limited effects on its actual orientations. To understand this paradox, I go back to the 1960s when both cul...

Cultural Capital: Between Taste and Participation

Bourdieu's (1987 [1979]) theorization of cultural capital treats attitudes, preferences, and behavior as forms of embodied cultural capital. As such, these are often considered parallel forms of embodied cultural capital that receive different empirical manifestations in various works (Lamont and Lareau 1988), without attention to the implications of choosing one operationalization of cultural ...

An Economic Approach to Cultural Capital

This paper introduces a sociological notion of cultural capital into economics. This is modeled as an infinitely repeated game in which the likelihood of future play (i.e. discount factor) is a function of group specific human capital investments made by the agents before the interactions begin. It is shown that: (1) some individuals expected to make group-specific human capital investments are...

Moving Image Preservation and Cultural Capital

This article examines the changing landscape of moving image archiving in the wake of recent developments in online video sharing services such as YouTube and Google Video. The most crucial change to moving image archives may not be in regard to the collections themselves, but rather the social order that sustains cultural institutions in their role as the creators and sustainers of objectified...