Cultural Capital, Educational Attainment, and Marital Selection
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8043301 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P Dimaggio (0000-0001-5330-2529), John W Mohr (0009-0004-5300-7940), John Mohr (0000-0002-0746-4110) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1231-1261 |
| Publication date | 1985-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/228209 |
| OpenAlex | W2022510732 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 454 |
| References cited | 33 |
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
Attendance · Capital (architecture · Cultural capital · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Geography · Marital status · Population · Selection (genetic algorithm) · Social science · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Status attainment · Stratification (seeds · Demography · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Capital and Networks · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 454 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 11,07 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2026 (42) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 452 |