Influence of Family’s Cultural Capital on Forming Students’ Understanding of Factors of Life Success

Abstract

The article investigates all definitions of "life success" concept in humanitarian studies. In the article the youth's idea about the actualization factors of this definition corresponding to the real phenomenon is introduced. The concept of cultural capital has also been studied in P. Bourdieu's interpretation. It has been defined that the cultural capital has impact on the formation of the "life success" concept for Polish and Ukrainian students. It was proved, that parents' education as a component of cultural fund of student`s family has a great influence on the formation of  "life success" concept .Also it was emphasized, that such strategy of life success as infantilism is much more inherent to Ukrainian students, while Polish students are mainly concentrated on subjective strategy.