Capital

Economic Capital

• financial physical and material resources - used to obtain a good education, health and leisure.
• Recent social policy supports parents to generate economic capital

Human Capital

• skills and knowledge usually associated with education and work.
• Parents can improve children's human capital by supporting their education

Social capital

• Level of connectivity and reciprocity can bring benefits at many ecological levels
• - Bonding social capital - helps create sense of belonging - eg autism working together as a family built resilience
• - Bridging social capital - mutual sharing of experiences and support - eg Disabled - parents network
• - Linking social capital - connections outside the community - eg disabled project workers
• Advantage of social capital within interagency working - it embraces multi-layered formal and informal networks
• Bourdieu - social capital transmitted from one generation to another therefore reproduction of class inequalities

Cultural Capital

• knowing HOW to use assets to achieve goals
• Bourdeiu - cultural capital is a form of legitimate knowledge - without it parents can be disadvantages
• Habitus - a way of behaving that is learned through socialisations and experience and happens without much thought
• Field - social arena within which struggles or manoeuvres take place over specific resources and access to them. To gain advantage within the field you need legitimate knowledge.
• When habitus is consistent with field one can enjoy social advantage
• Grenfell and James - can be used to enhance education (by knowing catchment area and moving house - leading to further inequalities
• Bourdieu challenges neoliberal ideas of strivers vs scroungers - capital is accessible to some parents and not others so parent capacity needs to be understood in social, economic and political context