Musical Distinctions in England – Understanding Cultural Homology and Omnivourism through a Methods Comparison

Abstract

Musical distinctions in

La distinction : addendum statistique

“…Comme l'ont noté Richard A. Peterson et Roger M. Kern (), Philippe Coulangeon (), Omar Lizardo et Sara Skiles (), Nicolas Robette et Olivier Roueff () ou encore Adrian Leguina (), le modèle de l'omnivorité (Peterson ; Peterson et Kern ; Peterson et Simkus ) actualise et prolonge plus qu'il ne contredit le modèle de l'homologie structurale élaboré par P. Bourdieu. Bien qu'il soit monnaie courante de les opposer (Atkinson ; Bryson ; Veenstra ), ces deux perspectives ne sont pas antithétiques.…”

Musical preferences and technologies: Contemporary material and symbolic distinctions criticized

“…In the case of Chile, these boundaries appear to be related to different digital divides, a reflection of a society where material differences are much more marked than in more advanced societies. Unfortunately, being this the next step, we were unable to use robust measures of broadness of taste to contrast our findings with theories of cultural omnivourism (Leguina, 2015) and dissonance (Lahire, 2008).…”

“…Indicators of musical taste and technologies, operationalized as methods of exchange (ranging from buy on streets to free Internet downloads) and technological formats and devices (from radio stations to portable digital reproducers) to listen to music, are analysed through a multiple factor analysis (MFA), an extension of multiple correspondence analysis (MCA). This is an update to the statistical method commonly preferred for this type of analysis (Leguina, 2015) which overcomes some of MCA pitfalls in cases where researchers are interested in comparing the contribution of different groups of variables (Escofier and Pages, 1994). Our analysis expects to provide an extra layer of information on the relationship between musical practices and social structures, elucidating how music consumption practices interact with cultural boundaries.…”

The Global Omnivore: Identifying Musical Taste Groups in Austria, England, Israel and Serbia

“…Through what was an innovative theoretical and empirical approach for his time, Pierre Bourdieu's homology thesis makes possible an understanding of how 1960s' French social classes can be hierarchically distinguished in terms of their cultural consumption. Put simply , homology hypothesis extracted from Bourdieu's seminal work La Distinction (Bourdieu 1984) has frequently being stated as: Social stratification axes are (highly) correlated with lifestyles and more specifically, higher (lower) social positions tend to prefer (reject) what are traditionally accepted as highbrow musical genres, while lower (higher) social positions prefer (reject) lowbrow (Leguina 2015).…”

“…The advantage of this approach is that we can test whether observed musical tastes and distastes indicators can be grouped in specific patterns or latent classes, and at the same time quantify the impact of a set of explanatory variables pertaining to the construction of classes, avoiding bias produced when classification and explanatory variables of groups are performed in separate steps (Vermunt and Magidson 2008). This statistical method has been shown to be adequate for understanding the association between culture and social structure, proving to be a refined tool based on a probabilistic framework from latent variable modelling (Tampubolon 2008a, Leguina 2015.…”