Tag: cultural capital
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Unequal parental choice
marketisation policies mean unequal parental choice as middle class parents have more cultural capital
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Mary Berry Doffs Her Bonnet – and Legitimates the Class Structure (Again)
I’ve blogged about how Mary Berry’s uses her middle class cultural capital to maintain the class-order through demonising working class taste , but in her latest series of outings – Mary Berry’s Country House Secrets, she takes this to another level… I could only stomach one episode, which I watched to confirm my suspicions about…
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Cultural Capital, Practical Intelligence and Success
Being an analytical genius is not necessarily enough to achieve success in life – it also helps if your parents have sufficient cultural capital to provide you with ‘practical intelligence’. In this post, I continue my summary of Malcom Gladwell’s most excellent ‘Outliers: The Story of Success’ (chapter 5: the trouble with geniuses part 2).…
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The Apprentice Final Five and Class Inequality
The Apprentice – The Final Five demonstrates some of the subtle ways in which the class structure disadvantages those from working class backgrounds – To focus on just one example, Frances was a straight A student who dropped out of the University of Durham because ‘it sounds ridiculous’ but she didn’t feel liked she fitted in.…