cultural capital
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.56 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
6
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "If you like: if economic capital is what you have, cultural capital is what you know, social capital is whom you know. […] Unless educational resources make some attempt to reverse the flow of cultural capital transmitted in the home then the end result will be enhanced forms of cultural inequality."
- "[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; […]"