Preparing for Power
Preparing for Power
Attending Sophia University is a path to my future goal. As I dream to become an entrepreneur, I choose to study at Sophia University, where I believe it to be an elite school. Sophia University is one of the well-known schools in entire Japan and I know many high school students hope to get into my university. Elite schools are providing sophisticated education and leading students to better jobs and better future. Not only the results tells that many students are offered good jobs but also the diploma of Sophia University is highly evaluated because graduates build trust from achieving honor in many ways attracts people. In terms of cultural capital, what effects and influences do all students get through the undergraduate program at Sophia University? Have cultural capital been transmitted to me throughout my university life? According to Cookson and Persell in Preparing for Power, cultural capital is the training period of becoming elite; acquire highly specialized manner and accumulating skills and status symbols that can be used in later life. ‘Cultural capital’ is defined as ‘a term refers to the symbol, ideas, tastes, and preferences that can be strategically used as resources in social action’. Cultural capital was seen as a ‘habitus’ an embodied socialized tendency or disposition to act, think or feel in a particular way. Middle-class parents are able to endow their children with cultural competences that will give them a greater likelihood of success at school and at university. Since working-class children do not have an access to such cultural resources, they are less successful in educational system and thus, education reproduces class inequalities. This creates the gap between middle-class and working -class that eventually creates the gap in next generation. In elite prep schools, they socialize their students to the ways of prestige, privilege, and power. By focusing on elite prep schools’ educational system and students’
Attending Sophia University is a path to my future goal. As I dream to become an entrepreneur, I choose to study at Sophia University, where I believe it to be an elite school. Sophia University is one of the well-known schools in entire Japan and I know many high school students hope to get into my university. Elite schools are providing sophisticated education and leading students to better jobs and better future. Not only the results tells that many students are offered good jobs but also the diploma of Sophia University is highly evaluated because graduates build trust from achieving honor in many ways attracts people. In terms of cultural capital, what effects and influences do all students get through the undergraduate program at Sophia University? Have cultural capital been transmitted to me throughout my university life? According to Cookson and Persell in Preparing for Power, cultural capital is the training period of becoming elite; acquire highly specialized manner and accumulating skills and status symbols that can be used in later life. ‘Cultural capital’ is defined as ‘a term refers to the symbol, ideas, tastes, and preferences that can be strategically used as resources in social action’. Cultural capital was seen as a ‘habitus’ an embodied socialized tendency or disposition to act, think or feel in a particular way. Middle-class parents are able to endow their children with cultural competences that will give them a greater likelihood of success at school and at university. Since working-class children do not have an access to such cultural resources, they are less successful in educational system and thus, education reproduces class inequalities. This creates the gap between middle-class and working -class that eventually creates the gap in next generation. In elite prep schools, they socialize their students to the ways of prestige, privilege, and power. By focusing on elite prep schools’ educational system and students’