Culture, Class, Distinction by Bennett, Tony -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Culture, economy and the social Contents Tables Figures Acknowledgements Note to the reader Introduction Part I 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 in cultural and media studies 1.7 Conclusion

2 Researching cultural capital

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 II 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 III 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

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

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 cultural capital 9.3 Sport and physical exercise 9.4 Bodily adornment and care 9.5 Eating and cuisine 9.6 Conclusion

Resumé of Part III

Part IV 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 The culture-scapes of England, America and Europe

English scale American scale European scale

13.4 Conclusion

14 Conclusion

Methodological appendices

APPENDIX 1: FOCUS GROUPS APPENDIX 2: THE SURVEY AND ITS ANALYSIS

The sample Questionnaire design Analytic procedures

Multiple correspondence analysis: a distinctive technique Analysis of survey data

APPENDIX 3: HOUSEHOLD INTERVIEWS

Interviews and observation notes

APPENDIX 4: ELITE INTERVIEWS

Cast of characters

Household interview participants

Survey respondents located on the cloud of individuals Survey respondents from minority ethnic boost sample Gay households from focus groups

Elite interviewees

Notes References Index

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