Culture, Class, Distinction

Tony Bennett, Michael Savage, Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva, Alan Warde, Modesto Gayo, David Wright

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Abstract

Culture, Class, Distinction is major contribution to international debates regarding the role of cultural capital in relation to modern forms of inequality. Drawing on a national study of the organisation of cultural practices in contemporary Britain, the authors review Bourdieu's classic study of the relationships between culture and class in the light of subsequent debates. In doing so they re-appraise the relationships between class, gender and ethnicity, music, film, television, literary, and arts consumption, the organisation of sporting and culinary practices, and practices of bodily and self maintenance. As the most comprehensive account to date of the varied interpretations of cultural capital that have been developed in the wake of Bourdieu's work, Culture, Class, Distinction offers the first systematic assessment of the relationships between cultural practice and the social divisions of class, gender and ethnicity in contemporary Britain.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationU.K.
PublisherRoutledge
Number of pages311
ISBN (Print)9780415560771
Publication statusPublished - 2009

Bibliographical note

© 2009, 2010 Tony Bennett, Mike Savage, Elizabeth Silva, Alan Warde, Modesto Gayo-Cal and David Wright

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