Cultural capital and school success in India
By: Bihari, Saket
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BookPublisher: Bihar Journal of Public Administration Description: 19(2), Jul-Dec, 2022: p.60-71.Subject(s): Cultural capital, Educational attainment, Social hierarchy, School success, Cultural bourgeoisies
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Bihar Journal of Public AdministrationSummary: The paper examines how the attributes of cultural capital led to the educational success of higher secondary school students coming from different socio-economic backgrounds in Delhi Metropolis. It employs a survey of 448 respondents drawn equally from the two kinds of schools, namely private and government schools. The findings of the study support that cultural capital has significant relationships with better educational attainments. Parents’ educational background and economic conditions of the family play a greater role in scaling up the intensity of cultural capital leading to educational attainment. It is therefore family income and educational status of parents that influence the creation and development of cultural capital in students, responsible for educational attainment. The matching attributes between families and schools advance them at achieving more rewards which exist in the form of creating reproduced social attributes, distancing from disadvantaged lot in India. Social inequalities are generated and reproduced by families and schools within the framework of a class-oriented society. In the framework of analysis, it has been found that hierarchy gets transplanted in creating the social values where even the subsidized mobility does not produce productive results in gap mitigation. – Reproduced
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The paper examines how the attributes of cultural capital led to the educational success of higher secondary school students coming from different socio-economic backgrounds in Delhi Metropolis. It employs a survey of 448 respondents drawn equally from the two kinds of schools, namely private and government schools. The findings of the study support that cultural capital has significant relationships with better educational attainments. Parents’ educational background and economic conditions of the family play a greater role in scaling up the intensity of cultural capital leading to educational attainment. It is therefore family income and educational status of parents that influence the creation and development of cultural capital in students, responsible for educational attainment. The matching attributes between families and schools advance them at achieving more rewards which exist in the form of creating reproduced social attributes, distancing from disadvantaged lot in India. Social inequalities are generated and reproduced by families and schools within the framework of a class-oriented society. In the framework of analysis, it has been found that hierarchy gets transplanted in creating the social values where even the subsidized mobility does not produce productive results in gap mitigation. – Reproduced
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