A pioneering book that takes us beyond economic debate to show how inequality is
returning us to a past dominated by empires, dynastic elites, and ethnic divisions. The …

The aim of this paper is to address the dynamics of contemporary cultural capital by
interrogating what counts for young people as valuable cultural resources. Considerable …

In this article, we address whether and how contemporary social classes are marked by
distinct lifestyles. We assess the model of the social space, a novel approach to class …

In this article we demonstrate how upper-middle-class respondents in Norway and the UK
draw strong symbolic boundaries based on cultural taste and lifestyle. However, we also find …

Die hier von Steffen Rudolph vorgelegte soziologische Untersuchung beschäftigt sich mit
der Bedeutung sozioökonomischer und-demografischer Ungleichheiten für die …

Guided by a social inequality perspective that combines Bourdieu's conception of socially
shaped tastes and lifestyles with Peterson's notion of omnivorous consumption, this paper …

Scholarship on elites, including on their consumption, tends to focus primarily on social
closure and the pursuit of social advantage. Research has therefore not investigated the …

In this article, we address the classical debate about the relationship between the economic
and cultural aspects of social stratification, typically cast in terms of Weber's distinction …

In this article we analyse class cultures by mapping out differences in 'original taste'; that is,
respondents' classed preferences for food and drink. By employing Multiple …

Key debates of contemporary cultural sociology–the rise of the 'cultural omnivore', the fate of
classical 'highbrow'culture, the popularization, commercialization and globalization of …