A case study on the formation of cultural capital

Abstract

In the case of China, creativity as a new type of cultural capital was the product of Chinese society’s acceptance of the western influence on the concept of culture. The motivating power of its formation was closely related to the construction of new identities of social groups. The equalization effect and distinction effect of creativity show the groups’ different opinions from internal and external perspectives; the proposition of equality in culture should be understood as a true but local role. In addition, case studies about creativity present another kind of formation of cultural capital contents and another way of accessing cultural capital: all kinds of social forces jointly participate in the construction of cultural capital in the process of interaction, identifying the capital value and occupying the capital through diverse interpretations.