Cultivating differences : symbolic boundaries and the making of inequality / edited by Michèle Lamont and Marcel Fournier

Preface / Herbert J. Gans -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction / Michèle Lamont, Marcel Fournier -- Part One: The Institutionalization of Cultural Categories: 2. Cultural boundaries and structural change: the extension of the high culture model to theater, opera, and the dance, 1900-1940 / Paul DiMaggio ; 3. High culture versus popular culture revisited: a reconceptualization of recorded cultures / Diana Crane ; 4. Nature's body and the metaphors of food / Joseph R. Gusfield ; 5. Constructing a shifting moral boundary: literature and obscenity in nineteenth-century America / Nicola Beisel -- Part Two. High culture and exclusion: 6. The audience for abstract art: class, culture, and power / David Halle ; 7. How musical tastes mark occupational status groups / Richard A. Peterson, Albert Simkus ; 8. Barrier or Leveler? The case of the art museum / Vera L. Zolberg -- Part Three. Resources for Boundary Work: The case of gender and ethnicity: 9. Women and the production of status cultures / Randall Collins ; 10. Tinkerbells and Pinups: The construction and reconstruction of gender boundaries at work / Cynthia Fuchs Epstein ; 11. The capital (s) of cultures: A nonholistic approach to status situations, class, gender, and ethnicity / John R. Hall -- Part Four: Exclusion and the polity: 12. Citizen and enemy as symbolic classification: On the Polarizing discourse of civil society / Jeffrey C. Alexander ; 13. Democracy versus sociology: boundaries and their political consequences / Alan Wolf -- Contributors -- Index