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New Approaches to Studying Cultural Capital

Tue, April 17, 12:25 to 1:55pm, Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Floor: Third Floor, Room 3.11

Session Type: Symposium

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More affluent students are more advantaged in school, and cultural capital is regularly regarded as a key reason why. Yet questions about cultural capital remain. Do class-based parenting styles (and the entitlement or constraint they produce) actually affect educational outcomes? If so, how do these processes play out in classrooms and schools? Do our methods of studying cultural capital best capture how and why social class is so critical for educational inequality? And finally, is advantageous cultural capital something parents should strive so hard to cultivate? This panel brings together scholars from six projects, each of which offers new theoretical and/or methodological insights into whether and how families transmit cultural capital, students activate their cultural capital, and schools reward it.

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