“…Lamont and Molnár (2002: 168) define symbolic boundaries as "conceptual distinctions made by social actors to categorize objects, people, practices, and even time and space." Building on DiMaggio (1987), sociologists of culture have been studying symbolic boundaries of a particular typethe "artistic classification" of films (Baumann, 2001), classical music (Dowd, Liddle, Lupo and Borden, 2002) and the arts in general (Janssen, Kuipers and Verboord, 2008). Previous studies have suggested that more heterogeneous societies are likely to produce more differentiated artistic classifications (Blau, Blau and Golden, 1985;DiMaggio, 1987).…”