Culture, Class, Distinction (Paperback)

Introduction  Part 1: Situating the Analysis 1. Culture after Distinction 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Bourdieu’s Three Axioms 1.3 Contestations over Bourdieu in French Sociology 1.4 Bourdieu in the Sociology of Stratification and Education 1.5 Bourdieu in Cultural Sociology 1.6 Bourdieu and Cultural and Media Studies 1.7 Conclusion 2. Researching Cultural Capital: Questions of Theory and Method 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Habitus and the Dispersal of Practices 2.3 Disaggregating Cultural Capital 2.4 Field Theory and the Relational Organisation of the Social 2.5 Methodological overtures 2.6 Conclusion  Part 2: Mapping Tastes, Practices and Individuals 3. Mapping British Cultural Taste and Participation 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Using Multiple Correspondence Analysis 3.3 The Space of Lifestyles: a Cultural Map of Britain in 2003 3.4 Social Groups and the Space of Lifestyles 3.5 The Class Structure of Britain 3.6 Conclusion 4. Individuals in Cultural Maps 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Individuals in the Space of Lifestyles 4.3 Snobbery and Diversity in Accounts of Taste 4.4 Conclusion  Part 3: Cultural Fields and the Organisation of Cultural Capital 5. Tensions of the Musical Field 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Music as a Contested Cultural Field 5.3 Contours of Musical Taste 5.4 The Intensities of Musical Taste 5.5 Music and Performance 5.6 Conclusion 6. Popular and Rare: Exploring the Field of Reading 6.1 Introduction 6.2 The functions of Reading 6.3 Book Cultures 6.4 Newspapers and Magazines: the uses of everyday reading 6.5 Conclusion 7. A Sociological Canvas of Visual Art 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Contrasting Paintings 7.3 Consuming Visual Art 7.4 Appreciating Visual Art 7.5 Conclusion 8. Contrasting Dynamics of Distinction: The Media Field 8.1 Introduction 8.2 The Different Class Registers of Television and Cinema 8.3 Television and New Practices of Distinction 8.4 Film and the Differential Value of ‘Aesthetics’ and ‘the Real’ 8.5 Conclusion 9. Cultural Capital and the Body 9.1 Introduction 9.2 The Concept of Embodied Capital 9.3 Sport and physical exercise 9.4 Bodily Adornment and Care 9.5 Eating 9.6 Conclusion  Resume: Cultural Fields: Tensions and Dynamics  Part 4: The Social Dimensions of Distinction 10. Cultural Formations of the Middle Classes 10.1 Introduction 10.2 The Debate on the Middle Classes 10.3 The British Middle Classes 10.4 Unravelling Omnivorousness 10.5 Middle-class Identification 10.6 Conclusion 11. Culture and the Working Class 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Taking account of Culture 11.3 The British Working Class Today 11.4 Detachment 11.5 Local Games of Distinction: divisions within the working class 11.6 Class Hostility? 11.7 Conclusion 12. Gender and Cultural Capital 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Gender and Household Relations 12.3 Cultural Fields and the Gendering of Individuals 12.4 Contested Gender Identities 12.5 Conclusion 13. Nation, Ethnicity and Globalisation 13.1 Introduction 13.2 Home and Away 13.3 Nation, Ethnicity and Globalisation 13.4 The Culture Scapes of England, America and Europe 13.5 Conclusion 14. Conclusion  Methodological Appendices Appendix 1 Focus Groups Appendix 2 The Survey and Its Analysis Appendix 3 Household Interviews Appendix 4 Elite Interviews