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Publication Date: 2025
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The Reception on Campus: Differences in Students' Experiences Deploying Cultural Capital in College
Shelley M. Kimelberg1; Megan Holland Iantosca1; Fanya Wu1; Leasa Mills1
British Journal of Sociology of Education, v46 n2 p217-236 2025
Cultural capital can play a critical role in facilitating success in higher education. Consequently, scholars and educators often focus on the "possession" of cultural capital, highlighting differences in the amount or type of capital that students bring with them to college as a source of class-stratified educational experiences and outcomes. In this paper, we demonstrate the importance of attending to disparities in the "recognition" of cultural capital within educational institutions. We draw on interviews with low-income students of color who had acquired significant cultural knowledge in their pre-college environments. Despite similar backgrounds and shared exposure to a curriculum that deliberately cultivated cultural capital, participants reported markedly different institutional responses to their attempts to deploy that capital. These disparate experiences and outcomes also underscore the need for sociologists to attend more closely to the 'small moments' that may shape an individual's trajectory.
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, College Students, Campuses, Individual Differences, Student Experience, Higher Education, Social Stratification, Student Attitudes, Disadvantaged, Low Income Students, Minority Group Students
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1University at Buffalo – SUNY, Buffalo, NY, USA