Research on the Influence of Cultural Capital on Human Sports Practice

Abstract

The concept of cultural capital originated from Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical hypothesis that explains the different academic achievements of children from different social classes. Different from the research paradigms of Karl Marx and Maximilian Weber who conducted social stratification research by analyzing people’s possession of tangible social resources, Bourdieu proposed that cultural capital is also of great significance in social stratification, and social classes use cultural capital to establish stratification and demonstrate the cultural taste and habitus of different classes. In the field of sports practice, families and schools are important fields for the generation and accumulation of cultural capital. When influencing people’s sports behaviors, cultural capital has the characteristics of concealment, stratification, symbolism, and inheritance. Sports culture capital has an important influence on people’s cultural taste and habitus in sports, specifically, on people’s participation, selection, and consumption of sports.