Cultural And Social Capital Theory

The third section of the essay uses narration but also analysis, as Liu examines the effects of his assimilation. As Liu narrates his experiences in college, he analyzes their importance as related to his own acceptance into white American culture. Liu examines the cause and effect of his acts in college, like how he chose not to be pigeonholed by the race-specific clubs. He considers whether it was a good idea to distance himself from his Chinese culture in order to achieve success and respect in America. The third section deals with Liu’s college experience and how it played a part in his

More specifically, it will be concentrating on exploring cultural identities and diversity as Asian American students in higher education. As well as this, my thesis will address the factors that influence their experiences. Some of these include, but are not limited to: financial issues, language barriers, and lack of opportunity, lack of diversity and representation, and familial obligation. In addition, it will investigate how immigration history and familial influence affects the college journey and the understanding of one’s

Cultural capital and field results in inequality for a number of reasons. Cultural capital has to do with capital resources such as skills learned and specific knowledge pertaining to certain subjects. It also has to do with skills and behaviors learned at home. Field has to do with a social institution such as a school. These two things result in inequality because of the way children are brought up and how involved they are in social institutions. When a child is involved in a multitude extracurricular activities, they are more likely to succeed in school because they have a more stable schedule and not as much free time so they are forced to learn time management. Often times schools favor middle class cultural capital because middle class

Each country has its own kind of education, and education always plays an important role in affecting students’ life and study on many aspects. Having received ten years of education in China and two years of education in the U.S. I would like to compare and contrast a few significant aspects of these two different kinds of educations. Knowing that no two education systems are the same, the differences between American education and Chinese education allow countries to take the essence and discard the dross through learning from each other so as to improve their own current education systems.

Cultural capital is the concept that middle and upper class parents pass on behaviors and habits to their children that promote acquisition of wealth and education. When I examine my life, I realize that I may have benefited from cultural capital. I grew up in a rural farming town with a population of 1,500. The town was isolated, 40 miles from another city. Most families in this town were of lower social economic status, and depended on farming as a livelihood. My father worked as a Mechanical Engineer 40 miles away. Compared to the population, my family was wealthy (although wealth is relative to a location). My family was of middle socioeconomic status. I saw my family receive benefits over other families in the town. My family could afford

The “ Heavy Recruitment of Chinese Students Sow Discord on U.S Campuses” article is an interesting article I have recently read. It brings a lot of surprises to the reader. As an international student, I have gone through the process which is called culture conflict when I first time came to the United States. However, when I read this article, I still impress about how do international students react with culture conflict and why do colleges need international students.

Cultural capital, or a lack thereof, can give insight into someone’s socio-economic status. Throughout our relationship, Germeka has asked me a lot about my experience at college. She asks questions like how much it cost to go to college, how I pay for it, if my parents send me money, and if I have a job. The first time we discussed college she asked me if I got paid to be a student at UNC-Chapel Hill (Reflection 1) At first, I was shocked that she thought I got paid to go to college, to me that does not even seem logical. However, this is a clear example of differences in cultural capital between the varying socio-economic statuses. Other than previous mentors, I am not sure how many college-educated people Germeka has had genuine

In Nathan’s article, she keeps her principal focus on how foreign students interact with American students and the distinctive type of relationships that they build. It is quite strange to some of the foreign student’s that Nathan has interviewed about how non-committed American students are to the foreign students because American 's students do not socialize as much, and tends to spend more time alone. Furthermore, they will make small talk rather than being close friends or let it evolve into more. At that point, Nathan turns her center towards the difference between a relationship and a friendship between American and foreign students. She also discusses with different foreign students with different background and how they interact with their American roommates, and the relationship that they bond. In addition, American student’s family is a distinct subject from school but for international students, it is something naturally integrated into their social lives, which is why they care so much about their parents (Nathan 73). Furthermore, she discusses how many foreign students make comments about how different students look and the lack of attention that they give their professor compared to in their home country. Nevertheless, the social life and making companions in American can be quite troublesome for any foreign students. However, once you become acquainted with American students and get to be

Cultural capital helps us become successful, achieve goals and rise up the social ladder. Without necessarily having financial capital or wealth. French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu saw social class groups as identifiable according to their levels of “cultural and economic capital.” Increasingly, individuals distinguish themselves not according to economic or occupational factors but on the basis of cultural tastes and leisure pursuits (Giddens 211). Cultural capital can exist in three forms: embodied state, for example, personality, skills, and speech. Institutionalized, such as, education or specialized knowledge. And objectification, in

Studying abroad is very important to one’s life if the opportunity lies right in front. Nowadays, many students has becoming aware of the benefits of studying outside from their homecountry. America is one of the most common country that encompasses international students all around the world. Besides from housing numerous esteem places for learning, America tends to act as a place for the culture to exchange between international students and locals which is one of the many benefits for one to consider studying overseas. However, the process of learning does not happen as smooth as the wind flow. Problems may arise when one fails to comprehend how other’s culture works. By inspecting the story of Yu-Wen in the America for the first time, we can understand why she had many difficulties there.

Pierre Bourdieu developed the concept of cultural capital in order to attempt to explain the differences in educational outcomes in France during the 1960’s. Cultural capital is theorised as the forms of knowledge, skill, education; any advantages a person has which, give them a higher status in society, including high expectations (Nick Stevenson, 1995.pp.46-48). This differentiates economic and social status from the class agenda which, is rigidly sustained through an exclusive cycle. Cultural capital itself can be used in analysis of the class system, and how the dominant aesthetic and ideology is sustained from generation to generation.

When examining a family’s history it is obvious that the many children have ended up with the same level of education as their parents and ancestors. Children whose parents received tertiary level education normally obtain a qualification from tertiary level education as well. This idea was first questioned by Pierre Bourdieu who introduced the concept of cultural capital. Cultural capital is the skills that a person can use to their advantage in a social situation, especially in education. While observing a classroom children were being dismissed because they did not speak the language, their low cultural capital impacted their learning immensely; however, in another classroom I observed the teacher being an agent of change. Striving to include every child in the lesson depict the diverse range of cultural capital present. These two different situations impacted when the child was present, how the children participated in class and their overall achievement.

Alongside both racist and sexist media constructionism, hackneyed class cliches are equally as pervasive. Pierre Bourdieu coined the phrase ‘cultural capital’ which is the representation of the cultural knowledge, temperament and disposition that is inherited from generation to generation. Published to the Oxford University Press, Pierre Bordieu explained his theory of cultural capital as consisting of three elements: “cultural capital can exist in three forms: in the embodied state, i.e., in the form of long-lasting dispositions of the mind and body; in the objectified state, in the form of cultural goods (pictures, books, dictionaries, instruments, machines, etc.), which are the trace or realization of theories or critiques of these theories, problematics, etc.; and in the institutionalized state, a form of objectification which must be set apart because, as will be seen in the case of educational qualifications, it confers entirely original properties on the cultural capital which it is presumed to guarantee” (Bourdieu 1978). Another important facet of Bordieu’s theory of cultural capital is a ‘habitus’ which is “a set of dispositions that incline agents to act and react in certain ways – particularly, the result of structural conditions, but it simultaneously organizes practices and perceptions.” (Bordieu 1978) Noticeably similar to social constructivism, cultural capital is an occurrence that has the capacity to institutionalize harmful stigmatic stereotypes. To further

The differences between the Chinese education and the American education are more obvious in people’s mind, not only to the international students, but also to the native students and some people who study on this. As more and more Chinese students come to America to have better education, we should think about why the American education system is better and how could we change our system to have a new education system in China. These differences have some deeply reason, like the American is the nation which loves freedom. It took long time to make such a big difference between the two education systems, and we need longer time to change it. An undeniable

“As a international students, I care a lot about the difference of education system between the U.S. and China.”(culture shock) I realized that the educational ideas