Cultural Capital of the Members of Peripheral Region in Emerging Information Society. On the Example of Test Results of Subcarpathian Middle School Students

Abstract

In modern societies knowledge is becoming the basic asset. Modern businesses need well educated employees. Education - according to research of P. Bourdieu - is related to the resources of the family home, i.e. the cultural capital of parents. This capital is an important determinant of the endogenous formation of the knowledge society. This could indicate a chance for development for the peripheral local communities. However, it may also be connected with the problem of marginalization. Peculiarly in relation to the young members of the community of this type, as potential beneficiaries of modernity, or the people most at risk of exclusion. Two main research problems were taken into account in the article: (1) how cultural capital of parents is diversifying young people in the realities of "peripheral subcarpathian province? ( 2 ) the extent to which youth cultural capital allows it to adapt to the current challenges of the knowledge society.