Cultural Capitals and Cultural Spaces of families

The aim of the present paper on the one hand is recognition ofinterior culture in families through economical, social and culturalcapitals, and on the other hand, the effect of these capitals on thequality of the figure of interior cultural space in homes. The lengthyinterviews with 44 families, selected randomly from the northern andsouthern areas of Tehran, indicated that parents who are studied in thisqualitative research, have different cultural capitals. We can observemanifestation of these capitals in level of education, time of study and itskind, the time and type of T. V programs and other subsidiary culturalactivities. The effects of these capitals are observable in the figure ofinterior space of homes. Interior space is recognizable by the type ofdecoration (modern or traditional). In other words, the families havedifferent life styles. In according to other results of this research, firstly, 16% of the parents possess a high cultural capital, 41% middle and 43%possess low cultural capital, secondly, in each group, most of thefamilies have produced the cultural space according to their own culturalcapitals.