Correct Answer - Option 4 : Cultural capital
Classroom Communication: Communication plays a crucial role in the classroom teaching-learning process. Classroom communication is one of the most essential as well as inevitable tools for effective teaching. It is a two-way process and is incomplete and disorganized without feedback from the receiver to the sender (in this case from student to teacher).
- In the field of sociology, cultural capital comprises the social assets of a person that promote social mobility in a stratified society. Cultural capital functions as a social relation within an economy of practices, and includes the accumulated cultural knowledge that confers social status and power.
- As adults, cultural capital helps individuals network with other adults who have similar knowledge and experiences. In turn control access to high-paying professions and prestigious leadership roles, for example, in government.
- All the communicated knowledge through textbooks or teachers is considered as part of the cultural capital.
- Cultural capital in the schools should be woven such that it provides reference points and contexts that allow students to build schema.
- Cultural Capital can be classified into three forms - embodied, objectified and institutionalized.
- A students' dialect or accent can be accorded to the embodied form of cultural capital. The collection of luxury cars can be accorded to the objectified form of cultural capital whereas credentials and qualifications refer to an institutionalized form of cultural capital.
Hence we can conclude that the communicated knowledge is considered as cultural capital.
