Cultural Capital in Context: Heterogeneous Returns to Cultural Capital Across Schooling Environments

Ida Gran Andersen; Mads Meier Jæger

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.11.015

Cultural Capital in Context: Heterogeneous Returns to Cultural Capital Across Schooling Environments

Ida Gran Andersen, Mads Meier Jæger

Department of Sociology

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This paper tests two competing explanations of differences in returns to cultural capital across schooling environments: Cultural reproduction (cultural capital yields a higher returns in high-achieving environments than in low-achieving ones) and cultural mobility (cultural capital yields higher returns in low-achieving environments). Using multilevel mixture models, empirical results from analyses based on PISA data from three countries (Canada, Germany, and Sweden) show that returns to cultural capital tend to be higher in low-achieving schooling environments than in high-achieving ones. These results principally support the cultural mobility explanation and suggest that research should pay explicit attention to the institutional contexts in which cultural capital is converted into educational success.

Original language	English
Journal	Social Science Research
Volume	50
Pages (from-to)	177-188
Number of pages	12
ISSN	0049-089X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.11.015
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2015

Keywords

Faculty of Social Sciences
Cultural capital
Educational success
Schooling environment
PISA
Multilevel mixture model

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