Cultural Reproduction, Cultural Mobility, Cultural Resource, or Trivial Effect?: A Comparative Approach to Cultural Capital and Educational Performance

Xun Ju; Gillian Hampden-Thompson

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Cultural Reproduction, Cultural Mobility, Cultural Resource, or Trivial Effect? A Comparative Approach to Cultural Capital and Educational Performance

Xun Ju, Gillian Hampden-Thompson

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We assess explanations for the associations between cultural capital (especially cultural activities and cultural possessions) and educational performance of schooled adolescents in twenty-two Western industrialized countries based on data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). We further ascertain variations in the effect of cultural capital across distinct welfare regimes. Results indicate that multiple forms of cultural capital mediate the association between parental socioeconomic status and children’s educational performance in these industrialized countries. Our analyses also show that, especially under liberal-type welfare regimes, children from higher-status families reap greater benefits from cultural capital than do children from lower-status families.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	98-124
Number of pages	27
Journal	Comparative Education Review
Volume	56
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/661289
Publication status	Published - Feb 2012

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