The Homology Thesis: Distinction Revisited

Coulangeon, Philippe; Lemel, Yannick

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“…The second dimension of Bourdieu's social space comprises relative composition of economic and cultural capital whereas the second dimension in Canadian social space is defined by possession of advanced learning credentials (or no educational credentials) versus economically practical credentials. These results can be contrasted with those of Coulangeon and Lemel (2009) and Le Roux et al (2008) who found little evidence that cultural practices in modern France and the United Kingdom are influenced by relative composition of economic and cultural capitals.…”

Section: Structuring Principles Of Canadian Social Spacecontrasting

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“…My first research question pertains to the structure of Canadian social space, in particular to the forms of capital that provide the distances between people and practices within the space. Total composition of economic capital in the form of wealth and institutionalized cultural capital in the form of educational credentials appear to structure the primary dimension of social space, the dimension along which social classes are presumably arrayed, in France of the 1960-70s (Bourdieu 1984), France of 2003 (Coulangeon and Lemel 2009) and the United Kingdom of 2003 (Le Roux et al 2008). Relative composition of wealth and educational credentials also contributes to structuring the French social space of the 1960-70s but not the modern spaces of France and the UK.…”

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Culture and class in Canada

Veenstra

2009

Can. J. Soc.

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I apply Pierre Bourdieu’s conception of relationally-defined social spaces of capitals and classes that delimit highbrow and lowbrow cultural forms to Canadian society. I use categorical principal components analysis techniques and a nationally representative survey dataset from 1998 containing measures of economic capital, cultural capital and a wide range of cultural practices to construct a visual representation of Canadian social space which is directly inspired by the social space for 1960s France crafted by Bourdieu in Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (Bourdieu 1984). After identifying nascent class groupings and potentially highbrow and lowbrow cultural practices in my depiction of social space, I speculate on precisely how such cultural practices might factor into class dynamics in Canada, in particular examining the role played by “cultural omnivorism” in identifying and reinforcing class distinctions.

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Section: Structuring Principles Of Canadian Social Spacecontrasting

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Culture and class in Canada

Veenstra

2009

Can. J. Soc.

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“…Our model also indicates at a field-level there exists a structural homology between the celebrity in structured reality television and the types of celebrity 'products' that are desired by consumers, producers and the media, which derives from the collective understanding of attributes, social relations and norms. Structural homology assumes that social class structure is linked to aesthetic preference, and therefore that people's tastes are channeled by their position in the class structure (Coulangeon & Lemel, 2009). Skeggs and Wood (2009) concur that all representations are at some level always about class, and posit that everyday stories and 'ordinary people' on television, in particular, are representative of the structures of classbased social relationships.…”

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Puppets of necessity? Celebritisation in structured reality television

Thompson

Stringfellow

Maclean

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Journal of Marketing Management

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This conceptual paper uses field theory, and a production of culture perspective to explore the celebritisation process in structured reality television. This relatively new genre, typified by The Only Way Is Essex, blends fiction with fact, and constitutes a new, playful and interactive iteration of the broader category of reality television. We identify three culturally productive models that create new celebrity discourses and establish a theoretical underpinning for the role of structured reality in the celebritisation process; tournaments of value, spectacle and transformative performances. Whilst not exclusive to structured reality television, these models are particularly effective at explaining how celebrities are interactively understood in an increasingly mediatised marketplace. We contribute a model which proposes that celebritisation in structured reality is a homologising process through which celebrity meaning is legitimised. Summary statement of contributionWe highlight how structured reality programming resembles the culturally productive forces associated with tournament rituals, transformative performances and theories of spectacle that help marketing scholars unpack the cultural codes deployed in the celebritisation process. In doing so, we contribute to existing marketing scholarship by arguing that the celebritisation process acts as both an empirical context and a conceptual frame that highlights the relationship between cultural meanings, aesthetic practices and marketplace forms.

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“…Central to Bourdieu's theory are the notions of habitus and capital . Habitus is defined as a system of internalized dispositions that structures behaviors, beliefs, thoughts, and lifestyles that correspond to one's position in society (Bourdieu ; Coulangeon and Lemel ). The habitus serves a double function: it produces practices and behaviors associated with one's social standing as well as judgments and classifications of the lifestyles of others (Lizardo ).…”

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The Stratification of Attendance at Cultural Activities in Canada

Vanzella‐Yang

2018

Canadian Review of Sociology

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Scholars have debated the relative applicability of homology and omnivorousness, two theories of cultural stratification, for explaining links between socioeconomic position and cultural repertoires. However, the discussion has mostly focused on musical tastes rather than attendance at cultural activities. Using data from the 2010 Canadian General Social Survey on Time Use, I examine how measures of socioeconomic position predict attendance at 12 different kinds of cultural activities. I apply three analytical techniques to this data set: (1) binary logistic regressions to investigate the socioeconomic bases of attendance at each cultural activity; (2) ordered logistic regression to assess the nature of the relationship between socioeconomic position and omnivorous attendance; and (3) latent class analysis to identify clusters of attendance and the socioeconomic bases thereof. Controlling for demographic factors, I find that education and income are positively associated with attendance at each activity and with omnivorous cultural engagement. The latent class model reveals four distinct groups: highbrow omnivores, selective omnivores, univores, and inactive people. Education and income predict membership in the omnivorous groups, with stronger effects for highbrow omnivores. I confirm that omnivorousness is associated with cultural and economic elites, but also reveal different gradations of omnivorousness, thus suggesting that the two theoretical frameworks are to a degree entangled with one another.

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The Homology Thesis: Distinction Revisited

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Culture and class in Canada

Culture and class in Canada

Puppets of necessity? Celebritisation in structured reality television

The Stratification of Attendance at Cultural Activities in Canada

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