According to Pierre Bourdieu, cultural capital, through communication, is for

For Pierre Bourdieu, cultural capital, working through communication, is for socio-cultural benefit, converting knowledge, taste and manners into social standing and advantage.

The skills, credentials and cultural know-how a person carries let them navigate society and win position, so the payoff is social and cultural rather than narrowly material.

Naming political benefit narrows a broad social resource to the arena of parties and government.

Calling it military benefit misapplies the idea to armed strength, which cultural capital does not concern.

Treating it as trade benefit reduces it to commerce, missing that its currency is prestige and belonging, not goods.

Bourdieu placed cultural capital alongside economic and social capital as forms that shape one's place in the social order.