ABSTRACT
This chapter operationalises Pierre Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital by using a mixed method in order to examine whether there exists a close association between parents' cultural capital and children's academic performance at school. It presents both quantitative and qualitative data were collected to uncover the ways in which familial cultural capital affects children's educational attainment and higher education choices. The chapter provides a description of the results of ordinal logistic regression of students' self-estimation of their academic results and presents the influences of familial cultural capital. It offers a focused discussion of the ways in which middle-class parents make familial cultural capital work. The chapter also provides an analysis of how working-class mothers try as hard as they can to support their children's education in difficult circumstances. In terms of the influences of cultural capital on children's academic results, there is no substantial agreement in the literature.
