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Field theory in cultural capital studies of educational attainment

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  • Troels Krarup

    (Sciences Po - Sciences Po)

  • Martin D Munk

    (AAU - Aalborg University [Denmark])

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This article argues that there is a double problem in international research in cultural capital and educational attainment: an empirical problem, since few new insights have been gained within recent years; and a theoretical problem, since cultural capital is seen as a simple hypothesis about certain isolated individual resources, disregarding the structural vision and important related concepts such as field in Bourdieu's sociology. We (re-)emphasize the role of field theory in cultural capital research in education, taking into consideration current concerns in international quantitative research.

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  • Troels Krarup & Martin D Munk, 2016. "Field theory in cultural capital studies of educational attainment," SciencePo Working papers Main hal-01295802, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:spmain:hal-01295802
    DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2014.969398
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