The Study of Relationship between Culutural Capital and Social Identity among Students of Tabriz University

This study offers empirical measures for the concepts of Cultural Capital and Social Identity, analyzes the relationship between various dimensions of cultural capital and how one defines himself, and examines the correlation between cultural capital and the salience of various social identities. The study consists of a survey research conducted among 391 students in Tabriz university.Based on the theory of Pierre Bourdieu cultural capital has three dimensions: subjective, objective and institutional.Social identity consists, ethnic, national, religious, global identity and individual identity. Research results indicate a positive correlation between cultural capital and the salience of the identities.Yet, the highest degrees of correlation are with ethnic, individual, national and religious identities, while the lowest is with global identity. Also, the correlation between the various types of social identity and institutional and subjective dimension of cultural capital is to some extent different from that of the objective dimension.