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Cultural Capital and Parental Involvement: A Comparison of Ctudents’ Music Participation between Beijing and Hong Kong

Cultural Capital and Parental Involvement: A Comparison of Ctudents’ Music Participation between Beijing and Hong Kong

Author(s):
Eric Kong Siu-hang
Publisher:
Springer Singapore
Publish Date:
2023
Details:

163 pages

ISBN print: 978-981-19-9031-1

ISBN electronic: 978-981-19-9032-8

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This book uses Pierre Bourdieu’s cultural capital model as a theoretical framework for exploring how students in Beijing and Hong Kong perceive parental influences—their parents’ cultural capital and support—on their participation in musical activities. By studying students’ perceptions of their parents’ cultural capital and support for their musical activities, this book revisits the applicability of Bourdieu’s cultural capital model in the contemporary Chinese context and reveals how inequality in terms of parental cultural capital governs parents’ support and influences the intergenerational transmission of cultural capital, which in turn contributes to inequality in terms of students’ cultural capital.