Relationship Between Cultural Capital and Body Management among Students of Tabriz University

Body is a phenomenon not only biological، but social and cultural and today as signs of personal and cultural identity، that can be socially built so its construction and function are a state of social and cultural beliefs. Researchers believe that the body and culture do not exist apart from each other، and the embodiment of body goes to people`s culture and society in which live. General understanding of the body in a culture is a fundamental issue within the culture and society. In this study، the relationship between body management and cultural capital by survey and case study has been investigated. in this descriptive- analytic study، questionnaires have been used. Sample size، contains 235 Tabriz University students which have been selected by using stratified sampling. findings show that the rate of body management among students is average، and there is a positive and significant relationship between body management and cultural capital. Regression analysis results show that among the independent variables two variables have been identified. 18/1 percent of variance in body management (dependent variable) to explain. Cultural capital is one of the factors that explain body management among students، and increasing the cultural capital of students. it will lead to improving student''s body management