抄録
In Japan, there is extreme pressure on students about their academic careers. For high school students, this pressure is particularly acute. Students involved in extra-curricular sport activities (Student athletes) are also under the same pressure. But, they do not devote themselves totally to the preparation for the college enterance examination. They manage to make their high school lives more comfortable. The sport sociologists in Japan have overlooked the culture of student athlete from the viewpoint of their daily life. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the effectiveness of P. Bourdieu's theory of cultural capital for studying culture of high school student athletes in this "Gakureki" society (credential society). In the educational sociology, it is well known that Bourdieu's theory of cultural capital is available to discuss student subculture and school culture based on many studies about school culture and student subculture in high school. According to Bourdieu, the "educational career" is a cultural capital of which distance from necessity is short and "extra-curricular sport activities" are cultural capital of whith distance from necessity is long in the credential society. Conclusions are: (1) an aspect of "the acquisition of culture" against educational credentialism and school culture is available to explain Student athletes' culture. (2) The examination of "extra-curricular sport activities" enable us to rethink the credential society and school culture.
