Why Does Cultural Capital Brings Out the Advantages of Women’s Educational Achievement? : Quantitative analysis of cultural capital diff erences between SSH and STEM

ナゼ　ブンカ　シホン　ハ　ジョセイ　ノ　キョウイク　タッセイ　ニ　オケル　ユウリサ　ヲ　ヒキダスノカ　ブンカ　シホン　ノ　ブンリ　サ　ノ　ケイリョウ　ブンセキ

ワタナベ, ケンタロウ

Watanabe, Kentaro

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

文化資本

専攻分野

文系

理系

Gender

Cultural Capital

Field of Study

Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH)

Science

Technology

Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)

Articles

Empirical studies based on the theory of cultural reproduction in the fields of sociology of education and social stratification have confirmed that cultural capital leads to advantages in achieving education. However, domestic empirical studies have shown that cultural capital does not work in favor of just anyone’s educational achievement but signifi cantly in women’s education achievement. To examine this topic, I conducted a quantitative analysis of the difference between artistic cultural capital and reading cultural capital between Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Two main findings emerged. First, although there is no connection between artistic cultural capital and SSH, reading cultural capital is largely held in the SSH. Secondly, the large amount of reading cultural capital in the SSH consists of women’s reading cultural capital regardless of the field of study and men’s reading cultural capital accumulated in the SSH. Based on these findings, it is suggested that reading culture as a culture of SSH became a condition on the education system side, and it was possible for women whose gender track was SSH to achieve education with reading cultural capital.