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cultural capital

noun

Etymology

Calque of French capital culturel, coined by French sociologists Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron (1970).

  1. calqued from capital culturel

Definitions

  1. The social assets of a person, such as education, intellect, style of speech or dress,…

    The social assets of a person, such as education, intellect, style of speech or dress, etc. that promote social mobility.

    • [Carl] Wilson tends to side with the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, who argues that taste is never disinterested: It’s a form of social currency, or “cultural capital,” that we use to stockpile prestige.
    • […]I had an excess of cultural capital and a lack of actual capital; […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cultural capital. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA