investigating the effect of cultural capital on cultural consumption of citizens of tehran on leisure time (with an emphasis on reading book)

on the one hand considering the importance of leisure time and on the other hand the importance of reading book as an indicator of cultural consumption, this study investigates the relationship between cultural capital and cultural consumption of tehran’s citizens. this research is descriptive-correlative in nature and surveying in methodology. the statistical population of this study included all 15-65 years old citizens of tehran and the sample size has been calculated as 384 people based on the cochran formula. bourdieu’s cultural capital questionnaire and realized study measurement questionnaire have been used for data acquisition. findings of the research show that there is a significant direct and strong relationship between all aspects of cultural capital and the rate of book reading of individuals such that objective cultural capital (0.48) had the most influential effect on the individuals’ rate of book reading and then, embodied cultural capital and institutionalized cultural capital affected people’s reading book rate at the same level (0.44).