Abstract

In the context of the modern information age social demand for higher education is increasing because it opens up the possibility for human personal and career development. As a matter of professional individual, a leading cultural capital importance, since it is in its content and specificity can be played in higher education, responding with public expectations of students in the appointment of high school. In fact, the implementation of the functions of education and is sanctioned by the transfer of inherited cultural capital. Returning to the realities of the present, we must recognize that higher education fails to adequately fulfill this mission entrusted to it, sooner or later can lead to destabilization of the entire socio-cultural space. Therefore, it is philosophical exploration of this issue meet the needs of both students and the entire social community. Therefore, the purpose of writing this article is to attempt philosophical study of the phenomenon of cultural capital in reliance on P. Bourdieu’s concept and features of the mechanism of reproduction of cultural capital in modern higher education. Interesting in this context appears as peculiarities of cultural capital students. As a result, the study was able to reach the following conclusions: cultural capital acquired by the students through the mediation of learning in higher education, defines social status and professional fulfillment graduate. An obstacle to its full assimilation of the individual is to have a destructive phenomena and processes in higher education, which should be eliminated. Thus, the reform of the educational segment of cultural capital in higher education involves the following major tasks: the establishment of a scientific schools and educational systems that would approximate carrier of cultural capital to the practical side of future professional activity, the concentration of educational programs on the processes of self-development and student learning, expanding the relationship of educational processes and practical profession, modernization and expansion of social control quality educational segment of cultural capital.