What Is Pierre Bourdieu Cultural Capital

Pierre Bourdieu theorized that each generation acquires cultural capital informally as they grow up in upper class households. For example, a person who dresses in the right suit for a job interview at a prestigious company would make a good impression and most likely get them the job. That person most likely learned how to dress from their parents and peers. Therefore, the cultural capital they learned from their parents landed them a profitable job, which will keep them in the upper class, the same class as their parents.
The opposite may also be true for lower class families. It is most likely that children from lower class families will not learn the appropriate cultural capital required to move from the lower class to the upper class.