The Importance Of Cultural Capital

Childhood background:
I would say that my childhood was very different from most children. For me, there really was no stable place that I would consider to be my true home. Due to my dad’s job in banking and finance, I have lived in Chicago, San Francisco, Boston and now Connecticut where I currently reside. As a child growing up, I remember very well, those feelings of nervousness and anxiety being the new kid in school. I would share to my classmates that I had just moved from a prior city and have lived in “this place and that place” and they would stare at me in awe. They had thought that I had the coolest childhood and was so fortunate to see all of the United States. However, for me, that was not what I wanted. I wanted stability. I wanted to develop a core

My mom attended Union College and later went on to attend graduate school at Washington University in St. Louis. She practiced family law up until I was born. Since then she has worked as a full time mom, and has done a great job with it! It is essential to consider cultural capital when comparing one family’s societal status to another. Cultural capital includes distinct qualities pertaining to a group of people, either inherently or acquired, that can be used to gain an advantage in society. I believe having parents who have both earned degrees from undergraduate universities already puts my family at an advantage compared to others. When I consider my family’s status, I would say that my family can be considered a part of the middle-class to upper-middle-class region of individuals living in the United States. In order to draw this conclusion, I define social class as a position in society that a group holds based upon their socioeconomic statuses, as well as their political and cultural resources in society. Based off the fact that both of my parents have college degrees, and my family is doing financially well off a single-parent income, I believe the status I have assigned