Cultural Consumption, Classification and Power
1st Edition
Published on 18. October 2013
104 pages
978-1-317-98222-7 (ISBN)
Description
When social scientists in the 1970s began to identify the positive and constructive role of cultural practices in the operation of power, Pierre Bourdieu advanced a highly influential and subsequently controversial account. Most notably in Distinction, he charted the connections between cultural taste and practice and social classification. This book seeks to evaluate, develop and transcend the ideas that Bourdieu explored in Distinction.. Taken together the papers compare and contrast different theoretical and conceptual approaches, bring empirical investigations to bear on relevant theoretical issues, drawing on different national experiences (France, UK, Canada, Central Africa), and attend to aspects of the relationship between culture and power with reference to gender and ethnicity as well as class. Thus the book contributes to the on-going international debates across the social sciences about Bourdieu's legacy and the current role of cultural practice in social reproduction.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-317-98222-7 (9781317982227)
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Person
Alan Warde is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. His interests include the sociology of culture and the sociology of consumption. Among his recent books are: Bennett T, Savage M, Silva E, Warde A, Gayo-Cal M and Wright D, Culture, Class, Distinction, (Routledge, 2009), and Silva E and Warde A (eds.) Cultural Analysis and the Legacy of Bourdieu: settling accounts and developing alternatives, (Routledge, 2010).
Content
1. Guest Editor's Introduction: Cultural consumption, classification and power Alan Warde
2. The Middle Classes and their Aristocratic Others: Culture as nature in classification struggles Steph Lawler
3. Revisiting Distinction: Bourdieu without class? Michele Ollivier
4. The Cultural Disillusionment of School Massification in France from 1981 to 2003 Philippe Coulangeon
5. Towards the Cultural Contextualization of Social Distinction Jean-Pascal Daloz
6. Dimensions of a Social Theory of Taste Alan Warde
2. The Middle Classes and their Aristocratic Others: Culture as nature in classification struggles Steph Lawler
3. Revisiting Distinction: Bourdieu without class? Michele Ollivier
4. The Cultural Disillusionment of School Massification in France from 1981 to 2003 Philippe Coulangeon
5. Towards the Cultural Contextualization of Social Distinction Jean-Pascal Daloz
6. Dimensions of a Social Theory of Taste Alan Warde
