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Ii Human Capital Development and the Frontiers of Research in the Sociology of Education 1 Human Capital Development and the Frontiers of Research in the Sociology of Education1 Introduction The sociological literature on educational achievement and attainment has contributed substantially to our current understanding of human capital development. [...] Instead, the revised models of the 1970s and 1980s suggested that, while the expectations of parents, teachers, and peers have direct effects on the educational and occupational attainment process, other variables, such as the structure of opportunities in the education system and the labour market, also play an important role. [...] Human Capital Development and the Frontiers of Research in the Sociology of Education 5 Bourdieu's most celebrated theoretical mechanism is based on the concept of cultural capital - the possession of cultural knowledge that signifies membership in the dominant social classes. [...] must be understood as an anticipation, based upon the unconscious estimation of the objective probabilities of success possessed by the whole category, of the sanctions objectively reserved by the school for those classes or sections of a class deprived of cultural capital." In relation to the status attainment model, and in particular the Wisconsin model described earlier, the claim here is that. [...] Human Capital Development and the Frontiers of Research in the Sociology of Education 11 Now, recall that the Catholic school research began in 1983, before Coleman is commonly thought to have developed the term "social capital" for his 1988 piece "Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital." This is simply a misreading of the literature, as Coleman had already been heavily engaged in debatin.