Question

Malik grew up in an affluent household which embraced activities such as attending the opera, visiting museums, and traveling to foreign countries at least once a year. When Malik goes to college, he finds he has much to talk about with professors, and fellow students from similar backgrounds. Malik is enjoying the benefits of:

Answer 1

Malik is enjoying the benefits of Cultural Capital

Explanation:

Cultural Capital is the knowledge, behavior and skills that a person acquires after being exposed to a legitimate culture. According to French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu who originally introduced people to the term, parents transfer cultural capital onto their children by taking them to various events relevant to a particular culture. He states that both economic capital and social capital play an important role in the concept.

The economic capital would allow access to quality educational resources and social capital allows to interact and make relations with people of that said ‘high society’.

He further divided the concept into three parts:

• It is an embodied state

• It is an objectified state

• It is an institutionalized state