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A distinctive feature of modern Western society is the great social and cultural importance attributed to the individual. The cultural emphasis on the person not only extends to the individual's rights (and obligations) vis-a-vis other social entities and society at large, but it also includes conceptions of the nature, the essential qualities and properties of the human being. This latter aspect...
This study uses data on musical dislikes to provide evidence for Peterson's (1992) theory of low-status cultural exclusiveness. Following his description of cultural univores, I hypothesize that respondents with low levels of education will be more likely than other respondents to have group-based musical dislikes. Sixteen music genres evidenced greater group-based taste distinctions for those with...
This essay critically examines the North American sociological literature that has developed in response to Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction, his tour-de-force study of consumer taste and social reproduction. I argue that theoretical and empirical challenges often misread Bourdieu, recasting the theory as a variant of Lloyd Warner's social class theory. I use this evaluation to reformulate the theory...
Following Bourdieu (1984), DiMaggio (1982, 1987, 1991) and Lamont (1992), the symbolic boundaries used by members of the upper middle class are examined through a content analysis of personal advertisements appearing in the first four months of 1992 in the New York Review of Books. The analysis finds support for Lamont's conclusions regarding the importance of economic and cultural resources in creating...
At any given point in time the markers of high status appear natural and self-evident, ancient and everlasting. In the following brief historical reading, this article suggests the temporal frailty of such everlasting status markers. It is not just that fashions change, which they surely do, but beyond such ephemeral changes, the whole intellectual basis on which status markers are established...
This paper examines attitudes towards eighteen music genres using data from the 1993 General Social Survey. It assesses the role of education, network complexity, and geographic mobility for predicting the breadth of musical preferences individuals claim to possess. Respondent's level of education plays a significant role, especially for the respondent's liking of elite music. The role of education,...
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