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bcretired · **on:** Sep 15, 2018

Samuel, who is 12, lives with both of his parents, who work in local fast food restaurants. Their neighbors are mostly unemployed or work in low level, non-union jobs in the automobile industry. His parents did not graduate from high school and don't know much about college or how to apply to college. Which of the following is Samuel likely experiencing?

a. a non-shared environment
b. low cultural capital

c. a cohort effect

d. canalization

Question 2

Cultural capital refers to

a. knowledge that helps a child get ahead.

b. money that a family earns.

c. the city that is the cultural center of a region.

d. knowledge of facts that might be considered trivia.