Are contemporary higher-status tastes inclusive, exclusive, or both? Recent work suggests
that the answer likely is both. And yet, little is known concerning how configurations of such …

In Southern Africa, marriage used to be widespread and common. However, over the past
decades marriage rates have declined significantly. Julia Pauli explores the meaning of …

Drawing from a qualitative study with 105 families across Canada, this paper focuses on 16
households in which one or more adults experienced significant social class trajectories in …

This paper uses a Bourdieusian theoretical framework to explore how thirty-nine Canadian
families shop for food. Based on two qualitative interviews with at least two members of each …

The article puts forward the semiofoodscape as a concept for the study of the
interrelationship between food and language. We illustrate the theoretical and analytical …

This article asks why middle-class Israeli seculars have recently begun to engage with
Jewish religiosity. We use the case of the Jewish New Age (JNA) as an example of the …

This article explores the culinary taste repertoires of middle-class people in Turkey who can
be defined as omnivores due to their routine engagement with 'lowbrow'food spaces. We …

Etymologically related, the concepts of terroir and territoriality display divergent cultural
histories. While one designates the palatable characteristics of place as a branded story of …

This article studies the preferences of middle-class residents for old or new neighborhoods
in two Israeli cities, and describes the ways local social space mediates the translation of the …

Purpose The paper examines the increase in annual income of the new middle-class (The
NMC) of Delhi-NCR and its impact on their investment habits, consumption habits and …