Abstract

POLLMANN, Andreas. Intercultural capital and socio-educational position: A statistical analysis of contemporary Germans’ foreign language reading practices. Cultura representaciones soc [online]. 2018, vol.13, n.25, pp.170-183. ISSN 2007-8110.  https://doi.org/10.28965/2018-25-06.

Based on data from the survey Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften 2016, the present article sets out to predict intercultural capital embodiment in terms of foreign language reading practices amongst a nationally representative sample of contemporary Germans aged 18 or older and who were holders of German nationality at birth. The corresponding binary logistic regression analysis reveals a particularly marked statistically significant impact of respondents’ perceived social class membership and their level of formal education. The statistically measured explanatory impact of the respective socio-educational variables powerfully illustrates the epistemological pertinence of a probabilistic and multifactorial approach to the study of the application of embodied intercultural capital -even in countries that might be considered wealthy and democratically consolidated, like the Federal Republic of Germany-.

Keywords : Germany; intercultural capital; social class; national survey; education; foreign languages; reading practices.

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