从文化资本到婚姻资本:理解农村青年阶层流动的一个视角

From Cultural Capital to Marital Capital:A Perspective of Understanding the Social Mobility of Rural Youth

教育作为一种增加文化资本的方式,历来与婚姻有着重要联系。提升教育水平、增加文化资本是农村青年改变自身命运、阻断代际贫困的重要途径,也是换取婚姻资本的重要方式。婚姻资本是指影响个人在婚姻选择中的所有社会资源,它是由文化资本、经济资本与社会资本衍生出的一种具有稳定性及可预见性的社会资源。不同形态的文化资本对婚姻资本产生不同的影响,文化资本对婚姻资本的助推力最终为农村青年带来阶层流动的收益。

As a way to increase cultural capital, education has always been connected with marriage. Improving the level of education and increasing cultural capital are important ways for rural youth to change their own destiny, cut off intergenerational poverty, and to exchange for marital capital. Marital capital refers to all social resources that affect an individual’s choice in marriage. It is a social resource with stability and predictability that derived from cultural capital, economic capital and social capital. The cultural capital of the same form has different influences on marriage capital. The cultural capital promotes marriage capital and finally brings benefits of social mobility to rural youth.