ABSTRACT
Most often used in an economic sense to refer to ‘any assets that can be invested with a view to accumulation and profit’ (Roberts, 2009: 25), the term capital can be defined more broadly as anything that has an exchange value and which can be used to acquire something else. In the social sciences, it finds employment in the terms of social and cultural capital and, increasingly, variants of these including physical, sporting, identity and symbolic capital.
