GGRC50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Economic Capital, Symbolic Capital, Social Capital
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Economic capital: middle class = higher chance in mobility. Capital exchange: turns cultural capital to economic capital. Education opportunities are differentiated in geography, parental choice in education aligned with spatial mobility, which in turn is a reflection of class status. Middle class children have more access to different forms of education. Working class competition makes middle class parent to financially their children more for international education credentials, as to maintain the privileges in social structure. A way to prevent the future failure of children. Values of oversee credentials are linked to specific place-based social relations or social capitals. To obtain more benefits and advantages in future employment market (e. g. language skills, personality, embodied capital) Western credential has more values in hong kong: education system (problem posing system that e(cid:374)(cid:272)ourage stude(cid:374)ts" (cid:272)ritical thinking skill rather than banking system); language skills (e. g. proficiency in english)
