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cultural capital
[ kuhl-cher-uhl kap-i-tl ]
noun
- Sociology. the skills, education, norms, and behaviors acquired by members of a social group that can give them economic and other advantages:
The accumulation of cultural capital is one route to upward mobility.
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Origin of cultural capital1
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Example Sentences
Because even the robber barons were not that bad; at least they endowed some libraries and foundations and fellowships and had some idea of wanting to pretend to some sort of cultural capital.
“A museum, in order to do it right, it will need some sustainable resources, so let’s take this rich cultural capital we have and begin to put it on display,†says Richardson, adding that the restoration project is part of a larger plan known as Elevate 28 to beautify and highlight historic landmarks in Long Beach in time for the 2028 Summer Olympics, which Los Angeles is hosting.
How many Democrats have anything like his cultural capital?
Earlier this month, Welch released a memecoin called HAWK, the latest celebrity-sponsored cryptocurrency with absolutely no point except to help turn cultural capital into real capital.
Bonnet TikTok spent as much time as these stars trying to rehabilitate the glamour of the Democratic Party, roasting it and every celebrity who would dare, under current economic conditions, try to gaslight constituents into legitimizing the sitting vice president with clout and cultural capital, as she presided over the very global dysfunction that has us seeking comfort from one another’s bonnet sermons.
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