title: Cultural capital in context: heterogeneous returns to cultural capital across schooling environments.
abstract: This paper tests two competing explanations of differences in returns to cultural capital across schooling environments: Cultural reproduction (cultural capital yields a higher returns in high-achieving environments than in low-achieving ones) and cultural mobility (cultural capital yields higher returns in low-achieving environments). Using multilevel mixture models, empirical results from analyses based on PISA data from three countries (Canada, Germany, and Sweden) show that returns to cultural capital tend to be higher in low-achieving schooling environments than in high-achieving ones. These results principally support the cultural mobility explanation and suggest that research should pay explicit attention to the institutional contexts in which cultural capital is converted into educational success.
authors.affiliation: The Danish National Centre for Social Research, Herluf Trolles Gade 11, 1052 Copenhagen K, Denmark; Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Building 16, 1014 Copenhagen K, Denmark. Electronic address: iga@sfi.dk.
authors.forename: Ida Gran
authors.initials: IG
authors.lastname: Andersen
authors.affiliation: The Danish National Centre for Social Research, Herluf Trolles Gade 11, 1052 Copenhagen K, Denmark; Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Building 16, 1014 Copenhagen K, Denmark. Electronic address: mmj@soc.ku.dk.
authors.forename: Mads Meier
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Jæger
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002170:Canada; D003469:Culture; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012574:Schools / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012931:Social Environment; D013548:Sweden
keywords: Cultural capital; Educational success; Multilevel mixture model; PISA; Schooling environment