Cultural Capitol and Social Mobility: English as a culture capitol for higher mobility.

Does cultural capitol contribute oneself to attain a higher social mobility? In this presentation, I will focus on analyzing how education and social capitol are intertwined, reproducing social mobility and inequality. Social Mobility and Education researches has been traditionally used years of education as a education measure, however, this does not allow us to closely look at the specific agent that largely effect individuals to gain higher education opportunity or class. By tracking the education opportunity given differently from primary to university level education, such as attending public, private, foreign schools, private academies, or having private tutors, this research is going to see how different quality of education affect individuals to enter the universities in the higher hiarcky, or get first jobs. For example, English speaking ability has become the cultural capitol in Korea (SetByol CHOI, 2006). Following this research, my research is going to test whether the foreign language speaking ability, as cultural capitpl, is contributing oneself to attain higher social mobility. The data I will use is the time serious data from Korean Educational Development, birth cohort of 1976 to 1986. My tentive hypnoses is English education and education, class mobility, using path analysis.