Cultural Domains and Class Structure: Assessing Homologies and Cultural Legitimacy

Abstract

It is well known that the figures representing the French social space in Distinction (Bourdieu 1979) are based on several partial analyses. This means that one of Pierre Bourdieu's central hypotheses-the structural homology between social and cultural spaces as wholes-was not empirically tested by way of correspondence analysis (although Bourdieu did perform such an analysis for the bourgeoisie and petite bourgeoisie). Furthermore, many of the sociological discussions of cultural practices which have appeared since the publishing of Distinction use data describing a single taste domain, often music. This is beginning to change, as large-scale surveys have been conducted for Australia (

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“…The longer the distances between codes along a dimension, the more significant their difference and the more they are associated with reputational or historical variance. Deviance measures should be at least 0.5 to be considered ‘notable or moderately large’ (Le Roux and Rouanet, 2010: 59); measures of 1 and over are ‘large’ (Robette and Roueff, 2019: 119). When the logic of ANOVA is applied to the scattering of individuals along each of the axes for each category of a code (see Table A1 and Graph A1 in Appendix, with Ent1 as an example), η² (eta-square) is obtained.…”