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(2013): Samuel R. Wells's How to behave. The classic pocket manual of good manners & model behavior. Avon, Mass.: Adams Media
Abstract: A modern guide to the timeless rules of good behavior In the years since its publication in the late nineteenth century, How to Behave has taught thousands of men and women how to build a strong, noble character and demonstrate model behavior in any situation. Now, in this updated edition of Samuel R. Wells's classic work, you, too, can manifest the traits and manners characteristic of a simpler era. At the heart of Wells's timeless tips, you'll find that a true lady or gentleman must always have a sincere regard for others, good taste, and an excellent sense of self-command.
2005
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(2005): Social Stratification of Musical Tastes. Questioning the Cultural Legitimacy Model. In: Revue française de sociologie 46 (5), S. 123-154. DOI: 10.3917/rfs.465.0123
Abstract: In sociological study of artistic tastes, the behavior of the upper classes is usually characterized by a penchant for "highbrow" arts and simultaneous rejection of popular arts and the products of mass culture. However, the trends brought to light by analysis of cultural practices survey data do not entirely confirm this representation. What distinguishes upper class behavior is in fact not so much familiarity with "legitimate" culture, as is often claimed, but diversity of stated preferences, in contrast to members of lower-status classes, whose preferences appear more exclusive. A contrast can therefore be established between the traditional model of cultural legitimacy and a model in terms of eclecticism. This article seeks to assess the import of the latter model on the basis of data on preferences in music from a 1997 survey of French cultural practices. First, French practices in this area unequivocally confirm the relevance of the eclecticism model, though that model appears more an extension of the cultural legitimacy model than a refutation of it. Second, the preference typology constructed through analysis of the data, and distribution of individuals by social factors among five music-listener profiles defined on the basis of that typology, forefront the importance of generation differences and uneven distribution of cultural capital and musical competence.
Keywords: Bekanntheitsgrad, Disziplin, familiarity, Geschmack (kulturell), Kunst, Musikologie, Soziologie -
(2005): Can Taste Illumine Class?. Cultural Knowledge Forms of Inequality. In: The Canadian Journal of Sociology 30 (3), S. 247-279. DOI: 10.1353/cjs.2005.0057
Abstract: In Distinction (1984), Pierre Bourdieu sought to identify social classes in 1960/70s France by assessing relationships between various forms of capital and cultural tastes and practices. In like manner, this article describes relationships between a variety of cultural tastes and capitals in modern-day Canada. Utilizing data from a questionnaire survey of adults in British Columbia, it assesses distinct and inter-related predictors of familiarity with (high-brow) culture and cultural omnivorism. In particular, the analysis explores contributions to zero-order and multivariate models made by (i) neo-Marxist distinctions based upon real economic ownership, various kinds of control in the workplace and degree of manual labour, (ii) economic capital and educational capital, the most efficient structuring principles of distinction in modern societies according to Bourdieu, and (iii) gender and ethnicity, two forms of power relatively under-explored in Bourdieu's empirical work that may also serve to structure cultural distinctions and intersect with class in Canada.
1999
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(1999): CONSUMPTION AND THE PROBLEM OF VARIETY. CULTURAL OMNIVOROUSNESS, SOCIAL DISTINCTION AND DINING OUT. In: Sociology 33 (1), S. 105-127. DOI: 10.1017/S0038038599000061
Abstract: In the light of the work of Pierre Bourdieu, this paper begins by reviewing an argument that Western populations no longer recognise any fixed cultural hierarchy and that, instead, individuals seek knowledge of an increasingly wide variety of aesthetically equivalent cultural genres. Contrasting versions of this argument are isolated. Data concerning the frequency of use of different commercial sources of meals and the social characteristics of customers using different types of restaurant in England are examined. An attempt is made to infer the social and symbolic significance of variety of experience and, in particular, of familiarity with diverse ethnic cuisines. The findings are interpreted in terms of the complex role of consumption in personal assurance, communicative competence and social distinction. It is maintained that the pursuit of variety of consumer experience is a feature of particular social groups and that some specific component practices express social distinction.
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