Revisiting the Measures of Cultural Capital

This article has tried to investigate the concept of cultural capital. Hence, the question is that how the concept of cultural capital in internal and external researches has been measured? And what proportion of different variables has reported with cultural capital concept? In this paper relying on internal and external researches, first, the concept of cultural capital and its dimensions have been investigated according to Bourdieu's works and then the operational aspects of the concept of cultural capital have been examined in contemporary researches , finally the application of this concept is studied in Iranian society. Review of external researches has shown that at each period cultural capital is measured according to circumstance of any society, this concept is revised by investigators. While the internal research, the concept of cultural capital in the same form classified into Bourdieu and has been used without revision. In fact, review researches show that in external research has been considered to cultural context of cultural capital. However, the internal research has been neglected of local knowledge and culture. Cultural knowledge of that information that anyone might have expected from them, and usually varies from one country to another. Furthermore, since we live in the age of information technology, it is proposed that in measuring of cultural capital, digital technologies such as social networking should be considered.