Keywords
intercultural capital
social class
national survey
education
foreign languages
reading practices
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Abstract
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—.
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