Cultural Capital and Social Reproduction

Abstract

The paper studies the role of cultural capital in the process of the reproduction of status with the help of data collection by TARKI on mobility done in 1992. The regression equations set up to model the m echanism were not only done for the entire multitude, but also for its individual cohorts, and for men and women separately too. Thus a picture is obtained also about the time-wise changes and non-specific characteristics of origin, inherited cultural capital, determined by the specific historical position, though naturally a number of (partly new) questions remain unanswered at the end of the paper, awaiting further studies of the process of passing on status.