Cultural capital Archives - AQMeN Research Centre

A view through a window: Social relations, material objects and locality

July 31, 2017 fbarlow Journal Articles, Urban Segregation and Inequality

Abstract In this article the authors ask what it would mean to think sociologically about the window as a specific material and symbolic object. Drawing on qualitative analysis of a series of comparative interviews with residents in three different streets in a diverse local area of Glasgow, they explore what the use and experience of windows tells us about their

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Cultural capital, Ethnicity, housing, Location, religion

The effects of family economic, social and cultural capital and neighbourhood on educational outcomes

July 10, 2017 fbarlow Education and social stratification, Projects

This research, undertaken by Doctoral student Carla Cebula, looks at the impact of a young person’s access to economic, social and cultural capital at home, and the neighbourhood that they grow up in, on their educational attainment. Carla is working with the Millennium Cohort Study, a birth cohort study of young people born in 2000, focusing on the English sub-sample.