The Effect of Cultural Capital and Parental Habits on Gender Socialization of Children (Case Study of Kermanshah)

Today, the issue of cultural capital and gender socialization has been raised by many thinkers and theorists, and the current state of the world, the expansion of communication and industrialization have contributed to the importance of the issue. Pierre Bourdieu introduced cultural capital in 1973. According to him, by having this type of capital, people can impose their narrative of the social world on others. Due to the importance of cultural capital, in this article, the effect of cultural capital and parental habits on the gender socialization of children has been studied. The research approach is descriptive-causal and survey method and in terms of time, it is done cross-sectionally. The statistical population is children aged 16 to 25 years and parents aged 35 to 70 years in Kermanshah, based on which 385 parents and 385 children were selected as the sample size. Findings show that there is an acceptable and significant relationship between independent variables (cultural capital, habitual) and gender socialization of children. It should be noted that 61% of the changes in the gender sociability of children are predicted by independent variables.