Study Of Relationship Between Cultural Capital And Identity Formation Among Boy Preuniversity Students Of Bookan City.

This study offers empirical measures for the concepts of cultural capital and social identity, analyzes the relationship between various dimensions of cultural capital and how one defines himself and examines the correlation between cultural capital and salience of various social Identities. The study consists of a survey research conducted among 250 preuniversity students of Bookan city. Based on the theory offered by Pierre Bourdieu cultural capital has three dimensions: subjective, objective and institutional. Social Identity includes ethnical identity, national identity, religious identity and universal identity. There isn’t a positive correlation between cultural capital and the salience of the identities. Yet, the highest degrees of correlation are with ethnic and individual and national and religious identities, while the lowest is with global Identity. Also, the correlation between the various types of social identity and institutional and subjective dimensions of cultural capital is to some extent different from that with the objective dimension. Also, There is a meaningful relationship between the subjective dimension of cultural capital and tribal and national identities; while there is no meaningful relationship between the subjective dimension of cultural capital and the international and religions identities. And there is no meaningful relationship between the international dimension of cultural capital and the international, religions, national and tribal identities.