| Description |
xviii, 311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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CRESC |
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Culture, economy and the social.
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| Contents |
Pt. I. Situating the analysis -- 1. Culture after Distinction -- 2. Researching cultural capital: questions of theory and method -- Pt. II. Mapping tastes, practices and individuals -- 3. Mapping British cultural taste and participation -- 4. Individuals in cultural maps -- Pt. III. Cultural fields and the organisation of cultural capital -- 5. Tensions of the musical field -- 6. Popular and rare: exploring the field of reading -- 7. A sociological canvas of visual art -- 8. Contrasting dynamics of distinction: the media field -- 9. Cultural capital and the body -- Resume of Part III : Tensions and dynamics -- Pt. IV. The social dimensions of distinction -- 10. Cultural formations of the middle classes -- 11. Culture and the working class -- 12. Gender and cultural capital -- 13. Nation, ethnicity and globalisation -- 14. Conclusion |
| 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." |
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"It is essential reading for anyone interested in the relationships between culture and society."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-300) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002.
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Culture conflict -- Great Britain.
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Culture.
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Intellectual life.
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Social classes -- Great Britain.
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Social desirability -- Great Britain.
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Social desirability.
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Social psychology -- Great Britain.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056954
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| Author |
Bennett, Tony, 1947-
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| LC no. |
2008047995 |
| ISBN |
0203930576 (ebk.) |
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0415422426 (hbk.) |
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9780415422420 (hbk.) |
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