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[https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero](https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero)  \nCan Adolescents Acquire Cultural Capital Through Social Capital Access and Exposure? Experimental Evidence of the Impact of Ties to College-Educated Adults  \nS. Michael Gaddis  \nNWEA  \nJoseph Murphy  \nUCLA  \nScholars question whether cultural capital reproduces existing inequalities or leads to upward mobility. While families provide opportunities to increase cultural capital, schools value and reward cultural capital. Thus, adolescents need to obtain cultural capital through their families to be able to navigate the education system. However, most research does not provide causal evidence of cultural capital acquisition and lacks clarity about how disadvantaged adolescents might increase cultural capital. We hypothesize that adolescents may increase cultural capital through social capital access and exposure—their ties to and meeting frequency with other important adults knowledgeable about the education system. Using data from a randomized control trial on mentoring relationships, we find that high levels of social capital positively affect cultural capital, but only for otherwise disadvantaged adolescents with parents who have some college experience. Our findings suggest cultural capital may be a more limited engine of mobility if disadvantaged adolescents from less educated households cannot acquire or increase their cultural capital.  \nKeywords: cultural capital, disparities, educational inequality, experimental research, inequality, longitudinal studies, mentoring, social capital, social class, socioeconomic status, sociology  \nIntroduction  \nCultural capital has become one of the most studied concepts in the social sciences, spanning research on education, inequality, the family, organizations, race, and technology.1 Cultural capital consists of assets, cultural knowledge, and linguistic competencies, all deployed with confidence and seeming naturalness that help adolescents navigate the education system (Calarco, 2018; Holland, 2019; Lareau, 2015; Richards, 2022) . Teachers, administrators, and other institutional agents value and reward students who exhibit high levels of cultural capital. Scholars argue that cultural capital matters because it aids students in negotiating interactions with gatekeepers at every educational juncture: with their grade-school teachers (Calarco, 2011, 2014), in college admissions offices (Stevens, 2007), and with college professors (Jack, 2019) . Thus, cultural capital plays a vital role in adolescents’ and young adults’ educational achievement and attainment, where they go to college, and their later socioeconomic status (Gaddis, 2015; Lee & Kramer, 2013; Noble & Davies, 2009; Nora, 2004; Rivera, 2011, 2012) .  \nOver time, cultural capital research has splintered into multiple paths and led to disputes about interpreting and  \noperationalizing the concept and whether cultural capital contributes to socioeconomic reproduction or mobility (see Davies & Rizk, 2018; Hu & Yin, 2021; Lareau & Weininger, 2003) . We argue that the literature contains at least three other significant blind spots. First, existing research is often cross-sectional and presents point-in-time snapshots of adolescents’ cultural capital. This research is unable to capture even basic changes over time that might provide insight into whether adolescents might acquire or increase their amounts of cultural capital. Second, existing research is often correlational and presents simple, noncausal examinations of adolescents’cultural capital. Thus, scholars are unable to capture even plausibly causal details about what or who influences adolescents’ acquisition of cultural capital. Third, education schol","cbCaivCBhpYHdRLO","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivCBhpYHdRLO","pdf",584242,16,"English","# Introduction\n## Cultural capital and educational inequality\n## Blind spots in existing research\n## Social capital, exposure, and mentoring\n# Methods and hypotheses\n# Findings and implications","[{\"question\":\"What question does the study address about cultural capital?\",\"answer\":\"It tests whether adolescents can acquire cultural capital through access to and exposure to social capital, especially ties to college-educated adults.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the article argue that existing research is insufficient?\",\"answer\":\"It notes that much prior work is cross-sectional and correlational, limiting causal understanding and overlooking cultural capital acquisition from adults outside family and school networks.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the experimental evidence show about social capital’s impact?\",\"answer\":\"High levels of social capital increase cultural capital, but only for otherwise disadvantaged adolescents whose parents have some college experience.\"}]","Can Adolescents Acquire Cultural Capital Through Social Capital Access and Exposure? 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