Study On Inheritance Of Cultural Capital Of Family

As an important issue of education sociology, the cultural capital of family has been studied more and more in China in recent years. However, most studies are focused on demonstration of the cultural capital's influence on the offspring, ignoring the cultural capital of family itself. The result is, we can see what the influence is, but we don't know how it works. Therefore, at the view of succeed of the cultural capital of family, the dissertation analyses and studies the contents, process, methods and characters of the cultural capital of family in its process.By interviewing several people and checking relevant information, the dissertation finds that the cultural capital of family includes intelligence cultural capital and personality capital. Each family has the different content and level of the cultural capital of family that decided the different of influence on offspring. To more details, the family who has advanced education background, career level and achievements that we called the advantaged family of cultural capital usually think over the content of inheritance so that make choice carefully. The family, on the side of intelligence cultural capital, focuses on the elegant tastes such as planning,playing piano,classic music; on the side of personality cultural capital, it focuses on modern culture personality such as determination, independence, openness and so on. Compared with it, the family lacking of the advantaged cultural capital of family has limitation on transformed the intelligence capital, and it focuses on the traditional personalities such as obedience, endurance, hardworking and so on. Historically speaking, the families in different periods in history have different contents of cultural capital of family because of the condition of society.The integrity process of cultural capital of family is composed of three sections. They are passing, inheritance and identifying. In the first section, teaching by personal example and instructions is the effective way .In the second section, the offspring both inherited the cultural capital of family and created new cultural capital of family according to the circumstance and their own interests. In order to be accepted by the society, the cultural capital of family must be converted and identified, which is the third section. Generally speaking, in China, the most authorized way of to be identified is the examination institution, especially the entrance-examination. Only by the way can the owner of the cultural capital gain the economic capital and social capital. The three sections are connected fast and each of them is indispensable in the integrity process. To be more, the characteristics of the process are unstable, long lasting and durative.