Intergenerational Mobility and Elite Dominance Under Cultural Capital Solidification: An Analysis from the Perspective of Education

Abstract

Taking the proposition “children from wealthy families are more likely to succeed” as the core, this paper, based on Bourdieu’s cultural capital theory and combined with experiences from developed countries/regions such as Spain and China, analyzes the mechanism by which intergenerational transmission of cultural capital in the educational field affects social mobility. It reveals how the solidification of cultural capital exacerbates elite dominance and proposes paths to optimize educational equity.