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Cultural Capital

Human ways of interacting have a weighty influence, not only on their cultural capability but also competences of an individual. The concept of cultural capital spines from two predominant ideas, cultural reproduction and social reproduction, which determine the superiority of a community and how other societies perceive them. Due to this diverse perception of how cities compare in terms of cultural capital, it is essential to bring about a unified definition of what constitutes this 'capital,’ as postulated by different communities. According to Pierre, social capital implies a wide range of skills, knowledge, norms, social class, credentials, among other aspects that make individuals feel unique from another group of people. Each community identifies differently based on the extent of their cultural capital; there are some which are considered as less fortunate because members of such societies as lowly educated, are improvised, and even lack influence due to being in minority groups.

My family's cultural capital is not working very well for me. Even though the idea of cultural capital in entangled in an entire community, Throsby argues that households have individualized responsibility for ensuring success amidst a highly competitive world. As such, to be considered as having a high social capital, households need to educate their children using the state-of-art learning models, promoting the standard of living, as well as teaching them positive mannerism which can be passed down from one generation to another. Families that fall-short of these expectations are considered as having lower capital as far as the cultural and social comparison exist.

I hail from a black immigrant background, and I feel that my cultural capital is working against me because it has not been comfortable living in a foreign land. When I arrived in this foreign land, I thought life would be straightforward until when I was confronted by life diversities such as knowledge and language gap, the difference in norms, and being disadvantaged because I am among the minority groups. This is in line with the emic perspective that local people have a way of thinking and categorizing the world based on what has meaning to them (

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