How does cultural hierarchy relate to social hierarchy? Do the more advantaged consume high' culture, while the less advantaged consume popular culture? Or has cultural consumption in contemporary societies become individualised to such a degree that there is no longer any social basis for cultural consumption? Leading scholars from the UK, the USA, Chile, France, Hungary and the Netherlands systematically examine the social stratification of arts and culture. They evaluate the class-culture homology argument' of Pierre Bourdieu and Herbert Gans; the individualisation arguments' of Anthony...
How does cultural hierarchy relate to social hierarchy? Do the more advantaged consume high' culture, while the less advantaged consume popular cultur...
