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Cultural Capital, Educational Attainment, and Marital Selection
Abstract
Although Weber distinguished sharply between "class" (an individual's market position) and "status" (participation in a collectivity bound together by a shared status culture), only measures of the former have been included in most empirical analyses of the stratification process. In this article a measure of status-culture participation (or cultural capital) is developed from the responses of men and women interviewed in 1960 by Project Talent. Questions tapped a range of high-cultural interests and activities. Analyses of data from a follow-up study 11 years later show significant effects of cultural capital (with appropriate controls) on educational attainment, college attendence, college completion, graduate attendance, and marital selection for both men and women.
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- Authors
- DiMaggio, P., & Mohr, J.
- Venue
- American Journal of Sociology
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1985-05
- Volume
- 90
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1231-1261
- ISSN
- 0002-9602 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5390
- OpenAlex
- W2022510732
- Cited by
- 950
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 25.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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