While scholars acknowledge the importance of both social and cultural capital to educational inequality, no research has examined how social capital might lead to increased cultural capital and habitus and thus improve academic achievement. In this research I use quasi-experimental longitudinal...

Cultural capital is influential in determining who continues on to and succeeds in higher education. However, scholars debate whether cultural capital serves to reproduce existing inequalities or provide a path to upward mobility. Most quantitative studies focus on point-in-time correlations...