# Cultural Capital

According to Pierre Bourdieu, cultural capital is the cultural knowledge that serves as the currency that helps us navigate a culture and alters our experiences and the opportunities available to us. This theory focuses on the embodied, objectified and institutionalized states of capital and is significantly important in assisting us in understanding inequality in education and other social structures. Further explanation of cultural capital can be found on page 365 of the Sociology 2e text by OpenStax College.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2015
- Runtime: 5 min
- By: Cindy Hager (Sociology Live!)
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cultural_Capital.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Cindy Hager (Sociology Live!)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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