Cultural Capital or Habitus? Bourdieu and beyond in the Explanation of Enduring Educational Inequality

Autor/inn/en	Edgerton, Jason D.; Roberts, Lance W.
Titel	Cultural Capital or Habitus? Bourdieu and beyond in the Explanation of Enduring Educational Inequality
Quelle	In: Theory and Research in Education, 12 (2014) 2, S.193-220 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1477-8785
DOI	10.1177/1477878514530231
Schlagwörter	Cultural Capital; Social Capital; Social Theories; Equal Education; Guidelines; Socioeconomic Influences; Educational Attainment; Statistical Analysis; Cognitive Ability; Social Structure + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialkapital; Gesellschaftstheorie; Richtlinien; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Statistische Analyse; Denkfähigkeit; Sozialstruktur
Abstract	Evidence for Bourdieu's social reproduction theory and its contributions to understanding educational inequality has been relatively mixed. Critics discount the usefulness of core concepts such as cultural capital and habitus and most studies invoking these concepts have focused only on one or the other, often conflating the two, to the detriment of both. We disentangle cultural capital and habitus, and argue that taken together -- in conjunction with practice and field -- they hold significant explanatory potential. Moreover, we argue that these concepts can be incorporated into a scientific realist "structure-disposition-practice" explanatory framework that seeks to address the misalignment between Bourdieuian relational constructs and standard positivist quantitative research methods. This reframing can help generate practical, actionable knowledge of the mechanisms underlying persistent socioeconomic disparities in educational attainment. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10