Class and Cultural Division in the UK

Using data drawn from the Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion study, we examine the relationship between social class membership and cultural participation and taste in the areas of music, reading, television and film, visual arts, leisure, and eating out Using Geometric Data Analysis, we examine...

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Published inSociology (Oxford) Vol. 42; no. 6; pp. 1049 - 1071
Main Authors Le Roux, Brigitte, Rouanet, Henry, Savage, Mike, Warde, Alan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.12.2008
Sage Publications
Cambridge University Press
Subjects
Art museums
Art Works
Challenging Class
Class
Classes, stratification, mobility
Cultural Capital
Cultural identity
Data analysis
Ellipses
Employment
Food
Leisure
Life styles
Lifestyles
Middle class
Music
Musical modes
Preferences
Roux
Social Class
Social classes
Social exclusion
Social organization. Social system. Social structure
Socioeconomic status
Sociology
Sociology of knowledge and sociology of culture
Sociology of leisure and mass culture
Statistical discrepancies
United Kingdom
Working class
United Kingdom
United Kingdom > UK
cultural capital
geometric data analysis
class
Cultural practice
Lifestyle
Cultural capital
Social Class
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Summary:Using data drawn from the Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion study, we examine the relationship between social class membership and cultural participation and taste in the areas of music, reading, television and film, visual arts, leisure, and eating out Using Geometric Data Analysis, we examine the nature of the two most important axes which distinguish the space of lifestyles'. By superimposing socio-demographic variables on this cultural map, we show that the first, most important, axis is indeed strongly associated with class. We inductively assess which kind of class boundaries can most effectively differentiate individuals within this 'space of lifestyles'. The most effective model distinguishes a relatively small professional class (24%) from an intermediate class of lower managerial workers, supervisors, the self-employed, senior technicians and white collar workers (32%) and a relatively large working class which includes lower supervisors and technicians (44%).
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ISSN:0038-0385
1469-8684
DOI:10.1177/0038038508096933