ABSTRACT

This article illustrates how cultural capital can improve student academic achievement and discusses how it can be developed among students. Good academic achievement is supported by the cultural capital owned by the students. This capital is important because it contains value, ethics and empowerment. Cultural capital in this article is the involvement and participation of students in extracurricular and cultural activities and a reading climate, all of which can preventively overcome the social climate and strengthen the social interaction of the less able students with the academic community. The research methodology used in the article is descriptive and qualitative. In this way, analysis of culture capital building is made by exploring students’ self potential in order to improve their academic achievement. Gender affects cultural capital and resulting enhancement of academic achievement. From the results of the calculations made, it can be concluded that female students are exposed to such capital from an early age, are used to discipline and more often spend their time involved in useful activities that add to their insight. They believe that extracurricular activities and student organizations can improve their academic performance, as well as allowing them to assess their friends who may be following negative currents of modernization, which may undermine their cultural capital and have an impact on any decline in their academic achievement. Another case, male students who recognize that the environment greatly affects the value of habituation that forms the cultural capital that affects their academic achievement.