in recent decades, the concept of cultural capital has created a lot of scientific studies over the world in the sociology of education. these studies mainly based on the two models: bourdieu's cultural reproduction and dimaggio's cultural mobility. these have achieved different results. this study aimed at evaluating the theoretical models in an empirical condition. middle and high school stud...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relationship between cultural capital and social alienation. According to Pierre Bourdieu’s Standpoint, cultural capital involves habitus, rhetoric styles, different forms of knowledge and tastes. According to Bourdieu, the individuals who are in high economic and social hierarchical level have different patterns, habitus and type of cultural goods...

Demographic transition theory is developed highlighting cultural transmission pattern as key driver. Individuals maximize cultural fitness, i.e. rate of own cultural type absorbtion by future generations. With low population density, one’s culture can be picked up only by own children, thus cultural fitness equals genetic fitness, individuals allocate all energy surplus to reproduction, and Mal...