Herederos de capital cultural: mecanismos de reproducción de clase en familias de profesionales en Buenos Aires.

This article describes the social class trajectories of the families of professionals and executives in Buenos Aires. The author did biographical interviews with men and women born between 1965 and 1975 into families in which one or both parents were university-graduate professionals and held high-level posts in organizations. He analyzes the evolution of both family and individual possession of different kinds of capital (economic, cultural, social, symbolic), as well as the ways in which resources were transmitted and appropriated for the reproduction or change in class position. He found diversity in the appropriation of family cultural capital: often class was reproduced by people aiming for different goals from those of their family of origin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]