Department of Psychology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Department of Psychology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Psych J. 2021 Feb;10(1):87-95. doi: 10.1002/pchj.387. Epub 2020 Aug 9.
Cultural capital is defined as the accumulation of knowledge, behaviors, and skills that a person can tap into to demonstrate one's cultural competence and social status (Bourdieu, 1986). Cultural capital has been well-understood in social sciences such as sociology and economics for the past decades. Little research has examined the psychological antecedences and consequences of cultural capital at the individual level. Our current work seeks to provide empirical evidence to support the claim that cultural capital (embodied, objective, and institutionalized) can be transformed into economic value. Using a 3 × 3 × 2 (Cultural Capital Conditions × Behavioral Agents × Frames) mixed experimental design, our data showed that under the gain frame rather than the loss frame, the property of people with cultural capital was judged higher than those pretending to have cultural capital, but without real knowledge. Interestingly, this pattern of results only holds true under the embodied cultural capital condition, but did not hold true under the objectified and institutionalized cultural capital conditions.
文化资本是指一个人可以利用的知识、行为和技能的积累，以展示其文化能力和社会地位（布迪厄，1986 年）。在过去几十年里，文化资本在社会学和经济学等社会科学领域已经得到了很好的理解。很少有研究考察个体层面上文化资本的心理前因和后果。我们目前的工作旨在提供实证证据，支持文化资本（具体的、客观的和制度化的）可以转化为经济价值的主张。我们使用了 3×3×2（文化资本条件×行为主体×框架）混合实验设计，数据显示，在收益框架下而不是损失框架下，具有文化资本的人的财产被判断高于那些假装具有文化资本但没有实际知识的人。有趣的是，这种结果模式仅在具体的文化资本条件下成立，而在客观的和制度化的文化资本条件下则不成立。
