Study the relationship between cultural capital and social status of teachers (Case study: High school teachers in Khalkhal)

Abstract: The research study the relationship between cultural capital with social status of high school teachers in Khalkhal city. For this purpose, Bourdieu viewpoint in cultural capital has been used. Bourdieu believes that cultural capital has three forms including Visualized, realized, and characterized. Key research questions are: How cultural capital affect the social status of teachers in Khalkhal? How affects each dimension of cultural capital on the social status of teachers? The research method was correlation and done with survey technique by questionnaire tool. The research statistical population includes all teachers working in high schools of Khalkhal city (120 person), that due to the low number of statistical population, the sample size was selected 120 (total number). The results show that cultural capital in comparison with the social status of teachers are in desirable level and they in various aspects of cultural capital, especially visualized dimension that includes personal skills and capabilities to gain better scores. By studying the research hypothesis it can be said that there is a positive correlation between cultural capital and feeling social status. Also, three dimensions of cultural capital have significant positive impact on feeling social status, with the difference that the correlation of visualized dimension is greater than others. The results of multiple regression analysis show that 0.7 of social status changes is due to three dimensions of cultural capital.

Cultural capital, Social status, Dimensions of cultural capital