Englisch: Political Psychology
Cultural capital refers to the extent to which individuals have absorbed the dominant culture . Associated with Pierre Bourdieu, who claimed that the greater degree of cultural capital individuals possessed (the more absorbed they were in the dominant culture), the more successful they would be in the educational system.

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