Are higher status cultural tastes in the modern United States better described as being
inclusive and broad or exclusive and narrow? We construct an original dataset in response …

Research on the tastes of higher status groups has long prioritized analysis of aesthetic
preferences. However, recent work has brought more attention to the moral dimensions of …

The paper aims to determine how cultural taste and social tolerance coincide and which
symbolic boundaries they relate to. The empirical analyses scrutinise three taste orientations …

How do contemporary artists conceptualize artistic meaning? Where do they locate it within
their work and how do they conceive of the aesthetic experience? And what is it that they …

This article examines how art students negotiate tensions that arise during aesthetic
socialization. Drawing on ethnographic data and thirty in-depth interviews with art students …

Although cultural hierarchy is a social construction–the result of ever changing distinction
practices by elites–the consequential division between 'high culture'and 'low culture'is often …

Music sociology has proven a fertile arena for the study and theorization of object–subject
interaction, with the work of scholars such as Tia DeNora and Antoine Hennion marking its …

In recent years art is often being criticised from a politically progressive perspective, such as
on sexism and racism. Such ethical critique collides with two dogmas of the artistic field: its …

Theorisations of cultural preferences frequently posit a nexus between familiarity and
pleasure. The pursuit and enjoyment of our tastes has been linked to the socialised …

One of the most defining features of audience research is its interdisciplinary character. This
chapter seeks to reflect upon what can be perceived as the key contributions of sociology to …