Culture Anthropology Article 2022

Running head: CULTURE ANTHROPOLOGY
CULTURE ANTHROPOLOGY
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CULTURE ANTHROPOLOGY
Cultural Capital refers to social assets of a person, which comprises of education,
intellect, the standard of living, good dressing sense and much more. A person having higher
educational degree, intellects and all the attributes mentioned is supposed to be socially stable
according to the perspective of society. There are many social paradigms that build social
relation, according to the social capital a person possess, which mainly consists of material and
symbolic goods, and society considers them worthy to be achieved. According to forbes.com
(2020), cultural capital also comprises of a person tastes, manners, skills and credentials, apart
from the materialistic belongings the society considers to be capital
According to DiMaggio, (2019), recently our society is having a tug of war between
skills and cultural capital, as materialistic achievement is mostly considered to be a social capital,
whereas real skilled people are not considered. The main issues related to cultural capital
nowadays, that are being observed in our society, is that it gives way to much social inequality,
as cultural capital is a type of asset which does not increase economic stability but it is rather the
asset exchanges to earn money, and stabilize yourself economically by getting employed. In this
case, poor people are unable to acquire enough degree, skills and education, which creates a
barrier for them to earn social capital, as they are unemployed. Even though many people have
the skills, but they are unable to earn social capital. This is considered a stereotype, which my
society is facing, and many countries are struggling due to the issues of poverty. Especially in
Unites States, poverty and economic stability is very poor, as many students have to work from a
tender age to support their family and does not have time to enhance their educational
qualification to increase their social capital. Although many places like United States are rich in
economy, but there are people who are economically weak and society does not considers them