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Author Bennett, Tony, 1947- author.

Title Culture, class, distinction / Tony Bennett, Mike Savage, Elizabeth Silva, Alan Warde, Modesto Gayo-Cal and David Wright
Published London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 311 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans
Series Culture, economy and the social
Culture, economy and the social.
Contents Introduction -- Culture after distinction -- Researching cultural capital : questions of theory and method -- Mapping British cultural taste and participation -- Individuals in cultural maps -- Tensions of the musical field -- Popular and rare : exploring the field of reading -- A sociological canvas of visual art -- Contrasting dynamics of distinction : the media field -- Cultural capital and the body -- Cultural formations of the middle classes -- Culture and the working class -- Gender and cultural capital -- Nation, ethnicity and globalisation -- Conclusion -- Methodological appendices
Summary "Culture, Class, Distinction is major contribution to international debates regarding the role of cultural capital in relation to modern forms of inequality. Drawing on a national study of the organisation of cultural practices in contemporary Britain, the authors review Bourdieu's classic study of the relationships between culture and class in the light of subsequent debates." "In doing so they re-appraise the relationships between class, gender and ethnicity, music, film, television, literary, and arts consumption, the organisation of sporting and culinary practices, and practices of bodily and self maintenance. As the most comprehensive account to date of the varied interpretations of cultural capital that have been developed in the wake of Bourdieu's work, Culture, Class, Distinction offers the first systematic assessment of the relationships between cultural practice and the social divisions of class, gender and ethnicity in contemporary Britain." "It is essential reading for anyone interested in the relationships between culture and society."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-300) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Social classes -- Great Britain.
Social psychology -- Great Britain
Social desirability.
Culture conflict -- Great Britain
Social Desirability
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes.
Culture conflict.
Social classes.
Social desirability.
Social psychology.
Great Britain.
Form Electronic book
Author Savage, Michael, 1959- author.
Silva, Elizabeth, author
Warde, Alan, author.
Gayo-Cal, Modesto, author
Wright, David, author
ISBN 9780203930571
0203930576
0415422426
9780415422420
9781134101054
1134101058