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Argues for analytical links where educational advantages explain differences in household IT uptake, while the skills and competencies required by IT function as cultural capital. 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Our argument is that there are important analytical connections between these two phenomena and that in some respects they can be seen as mutually constitutive. On the one hand, the educational advantages which are perceived to accrue to individuals and families ‘rich’ in traditional forms of cultural capital can be readily invoked to explain the variations in uptake of IT by households from different socio-economic backgrounds. On the other hand, the skills and competencies which IT use entails can, we suggest, be conceptualised as a form of cultural capital in their own right. Although these competencies play no part in Bourdieu’s original formulation, we argue that the concept is sufficiently flexible to incorporate these additional dimensions. In the first part of the paper we look at the conceptual foundations of cultural capital and at how the term might be extended to include the systems of knowledge accompanying IT usage. In the second part we develop these points by considering some of the research findings into households’ involvement with IT. Using data from the recently completed Australian Everyday Culture Project we examine the relationships between IT usage and cultural capital that are evident in a national sample of Australian households.  \nCultural capital  \nThe concept of cultural capital was developed in the early 1960s by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, together with a team of collaborators, as a way of performing two complementary tasks. The first was to explain the way in which advantages of birth or wealth are translated into social prestige by a displacement of these primary indicators of social power into partly autonomous systems of aesthetic and cultural values. The second was to elucidate the mechanisms by which patterns of social advantage are reproduced in and through the schooling system despite the fact that modern centralized state education systems were de-  \nsigned specifically to provide equality of opportunity forchildren of all classes. An alternative explanation would of course involve making the double assumption (a) that natural talent is the basis of social advantage, and (b) that talent or intelligence is genetically transmitted; but these assumptions hardly explain why it is, as Bourdieu and Passeron (1964: 12) put it, that-in the France of the time- a child of upper-class parents had eighty times the chance of entering tertiary education as the child of an agricultural labourer, forty times that of the child of a worker, and twice that of the child of middle-class parents.  \nThe notion of cultural capital is of course a metaphor, and has a close analogy with Becker’s (1964) concept of‘human capital’. In his most precise treatment of the concept Bourdieu (1986: 241-2) defines capital as ‘accumulated labour (in its materialized form or its “incorporated,” embodied form) which, when appropriated on a private, ie., exclusive basis by agents or groups of agents, enables them to appropriate social energy in the form of reified or living labour’; the distribution of capitals amongst individuals and classes determines ‘the chances of success for practices’. By ‘capital’Bourdieu does not, however, mean solely financial wealth; rather, he distinguishes between three forms in which the crystallization or reification of ‘social energy’ is manifested:  \n...as economic capital, which is immediately and directly convertible into money and may be institutionalized in the form of property rights; as cultural capital, which is convertible, on certain conditions, int","cbCais7h5xT6NDPc","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCais7h5xT6NDPc","pdf",271978,"English","# Introduction\n# Cultural capital\n## Cultural capital as metaphor and its forms\n## Habitus, schooling, and reproduced advantage\n## Relevance to IT usage","[{\"question\":\"What does the paper aim to explain about information technology (IT)?\",\"answer\":\"It examines how cultural capital helps explain the significance of IT in contemporary societies and the differences in household IT uptake across socio-economic backgrounds.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper connect IT skills to cultural capital?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that IT-related skills and competencies can be conceptualized as cultural capital, even though they were not part of Bourdieu’s original formulation.\"},{\"question\":\"What are the paper’s core components of cultural capital theory?\",\"answer\":\"It outlines cultural capital as developed by Bourdieu, discusses it as a metaphor related to other forms of capital, and explains how habitus and schooling reinforce differences in learning and knowledge.\"}]","A U S T R A L I A N U N I V E R S I T I E S ’ R E V I E W - Information technology as cultural capital | PDF",13]