Culture, class, distinction / Tony Bennett, Mike Savage, Elizabeth Silva, Alan Warde, Modesto Gayo-Cal and David Wright

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Series: Culture, economy and the socialPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009Edition: 1st edDescription: xviii, 311 p., [8] p. de làmISBN:

9780415422420

Summary: The book draws on the research conducted for a major ESRC-funded project on Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion (CCSE) to offer the first systematic assessment of how far Pierre Bourdieu’s (1984) account of the role played by cultural capital in processes of social differentiation can be applied to Britain. The book examines the cultural dimensions of class on the basis of a survey administered to a national sample. It also engages with the ‘cultural turn’ that now accounts for so much of the focus of new work in class analysis and of the importance of gender and ethnicity in relation to class processes. In doing so, it takes account of the wide-ranging perspectives from which Bourdieu’s work has been extended and/or critically engaged with, including those of feminist scholarship, American sociological research, debates within cultural studies, the French literature on the sociology of individuals, and work on the relations between ethnicity and cultural capital. (Font: Introducció)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 00076	1	Available		1900146485

Introduction -- Part I. Situating the analysis: 1. Culture after distinction ; 2. Reserching cultural capital: questions of theory and method -- Part II. Mapping tastes, practices and individuals: 3. Mapping British cultural taste and participation ; 4. Individuals in cultural maps -- Part III. Cultural fields and the organisation of cultural capital: 5. Tensions of the musical field ; 6. Popular and rare: exploring the field of reading ; 7. A sociological canvas of visual art ; 8. Contrasting dynamics of distinction : the media field ; 9. Cultural capital and the body ; Resumé of part III : tensions and dynamics -- Part IV. The social dimensions of distinction: 10. Cultural formations of the middle classes ; 11. Culture and the working class ; 12. Gender and cultural capital ; 13. Nation, ethnicity and globalisation ; 14. Conclusion ; Methodological appendices: 1. Focus groups ; 2. the survey and its analysis ; 3. Household interviews ; 4. Elite interviews -- Cast of characters -- Notes -- References -- Index

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