¿Reproducción o movilidad cultural? Un estudio a partir de distintas dimensiones del capital cultural

Manuel T. Valdés

doi:10.22325/fes/res.2022.123

Authors

Manuel T. Valdés Departamento de Sociología II, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22325/fes/res.2022.123

Keywords:

Cultural capital, cultural reproduction, cultural mobility, fixed effects regression, PISA

Abstract

Bourdieu and Passeron’s theory of cultural reproduction states that the education system contributes to the reproduction of the social structure through its role in the reproduction of the structure of cultural capital. However, there is no consensus on how cultural capital is transformed into an educational advantage or which students obtain a higher return from their cultural capital, whether students from higher social origins (cultural reproduction model) or students from lower social origins (cultural mobility model). This paper uses information from the PISA 2000 study in Spain to operationalise different dimensions of cultural capital and test its productivity for students from different social origins. The results support the cultural reproduction model for all the indicators of cultural capital analysed, which means that students from higher social backgrounds not only have more cultural capital, but also obtain a higher return from each unit of cultural capital.

Author Biography

Manuel T. Valdés , Departamento de Sociología II, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

Doctor en Sociología por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Sus intereses de investigación se centran en las desigualdades ante la educación y los procesos de estructuración y movilidad social. Sus trabajos han sido publicados en revistas nacionales e internacionales como la Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, Social Science Research o Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.

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