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.
@contents:Selected Contents: Introduction Part 1: Situating the Analysis 1. Culture after Distinction 2. Researching Cultural Capital: Questions of Theory and Method Part 2: Mapping Tastes, Practices and Individuals 3. Mapping British Cultural Taste and Participation 4. Individuals in Cultural Maps Part 3: 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 Resumé: Cultural Fields: Tensions and Dynamics Part 4: 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 Methodological Appendices
