Cultural capital and health across the life course: An exploration of potential pathways

Background
• In order to create habits, we need two necessary components:
• Access to the necessary resources: to play football you need a ball.
• A system of values and tastes that sets what is deemed as preferable over other actions: Why play football and not basketball?
• General answer on the literature:
• Learned effectiveness paradigm: Formal education plays a major part in the knowledge regarding health risks and benefits of certain lifestyles and in promoting cognitive and non-cognitive skill formation (Braveman, 2006).