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Bourdieu's Cultural Capital in Relation to Food Choices: A Systematic Review of Cultural Capital Indicators and an Empirical Proof of Concept.
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- Understanding educational inequalities in sports participation through structurally based resources and individual agency - a sequential mediation analysis.International journal for equity in health · 2024Article
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- A Bourdieusian Latent Class Analysis of Cultural, Arts, Heritage and Sports Activities in the UK RepresentativeSociology · 2023Article
- Testing conditionality with Bourdieu's capital theory: How economic, social, and embodied cultural capital are associated with diet and physical activity in the Netherlands.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- Food neophobia and its association with dietary choices and willingness to eat insects.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
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- Socioeconomic position links circulatory microbiota differences with biological age.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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- How does cultural capital keep you thin? Exploring unique aspects of cultural class that link social advantage to lower body mass index.Sociology of health & illness · 2020Article
- How does bridging social capital relate to health-behavior, overweight and obesity among low and high educated groups? A cross-sectional analysis of GLOBE-2014.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Are socio-economic inequalities in diet and physical activity a matter of social distinction? A cross-sectional study.International journal of public health · 2019Article
- Return on capital? Determinants of counter-migration among early career Israeli STEM researchers.PloS one · 2019Article
- Does cultural capital contribute to educational inequalities in food consumption in the Netherlands? A cross-sectional analysis of the GLOBE-2011 survey.International journal for equity in health · 2018Article
- Towards the measurement of food literacy with respect to healthy eating: the development and validation of the self perceived food literacy scale among an adult sample in the Netherlands.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2018Article
- Does social distinction contribute to socioeconomic inequalities in diet: the case of 'superfoods' consumption.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectiveUnhealthy food choices follow a socioeconomic gradient that may partly be explained by one's 'cultural capital', as defined by Bourdieu. We aim 1) to carry out a systematic review to identify existing quantitative measures of cultural capital, 2) to develop a questionnaire to measure cultural capital for food choices, and 3) to empirically test associations of socioeconomic position with cultural capital and food choices, and of cultural capital with food choices.
designWe systematically searched large databases for the key-word 'cultural capital' in title or abstract. Indicators of objectivised cultural capital and family institutionalised cultural capital, as identified by the review, were translated to food choice relevant indicators. For incorporated cultural capital, we used existing questionnaires that measured the concepts underlying the variety of indicators as identified by the review, i.e. participation, skills, knowledge, values. The questionnaire was empirically tested in a postal survey completed by 2,953 adults participating in the GLOBE cohort study, The Netherlands, in 2011.
resultsThe review yielded 113 studies that fulfilled our inclusion criteria. Several indicators of family institutionalised (e.g. parents' education completed) and objectivised cultural capital (e.g. possession of books, art) were consistently used. Incorporated cultural capital was measured with a large variety of indicators (e.g. cultural participation, skills). Based on this, we developed a questionnaire to measure cultural capital in relation to food choices. An empirical test of the questionnaire showed acceptable overall internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha of .654; 56 items), and positive associations between socioeconomic position and cultural capital, and between cultural capital and healthy food choices.
conclusionsCultural capital may be a promising determinant for (socioeconomic inequalities in) food choices.
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