ABSTRACT
This chapter integrates the Pierre Bourdieu's concepts into parent alinvolvement in children's higher education choices. Bourdieu's concepts of capital and habitus have been utilised to examine how the different volumes of cultural, social and economic capital that various social groups possess influence their abilities to promote their children's cultural capital and manage their children's educational success. The chapter is to unpack the ways in which middle-class familial cultural capital impacts on children's educational attainment and their higher education choices. It also discusses the relationship between cultural capital and social stratification. The chapter reveals that the different volumes of social capital available to an individual or family can play a crucial role in their ability to mobilise their children's cultural capital. Many middle-class parents, particularly those who were 'insiders' within the sphere of education, were able to improve the probability of their children's entry to a top university.
