SZLACHECTWO NIE ZOBOWIĄZUJE ZMIANY WE WZORACH KONSUMPCJI KULTUROWEJ
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2009
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Wydział Prawa i Administracji UAM
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NOBILITY DOES NOT OBLIGATE: CHANGES IN THE CULTURAL CONSUMPTION MODELS
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The paper is an attempt to examine the concepts that associate cultural tastes with different
social backgrounds. In Pierre Bourdieu’s theory, preferences concerning cultural consumption are
coordinated by a habitus that is inherent to each social class. This, in turn, leads to the homogeneity of
cultural choices, which is a primary condition for a distinctive lifestyle. In consequence, different
lifestyles participate in a hierarchy that resembles the social hierarchy. Hence the conclusion that the
most legitimate cultural choices (made within a highbrow culture) remain in the competence of
privileged groups, possessing sufficient cultural and economic capital to undertake them. Recent
research into the culture consumption include the revision of such a view. Richard Peterson and
others point out to the phenomenon of cultural omnivorousness. As he discovers, people of higher
social status, contrary to the elite-mass model, do not show aversion to activities associated with
popular culture. The main aim of this paper is to present the results of the latest research concerning
this new trend in cultural consumption, to identify its causes, and to propose its possible
interpretations.
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Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny 71, 2009, z. 1, s. 195-219
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0035-9629