According to Pierre Bourdieu,working-class parents are just as interested in their children's education as middle- and upper-class parents,but they lack the __________ to help their children experience social mobility.
A)social capital
B)cultural capital
C)tuition capital
D)educational capital
E)language capital

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Bourdieu's theory of cultural capital suggests that working-class parents may not have the same cultural resources, such as knowledge of arts, literature, and language, that are valued in the educational system. Therefore, they may lack the cultural capital to help their children experience social mobility. Social capital (A) refers to the networks and relationships that people have, tuition capital (C) and educational capital (D) are not commonly used terms in Bourdieu's theory, and language capital (E) could be a form of cultural capital but is not the best answer in this context.

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