Capital, consumption, communication, and citizenship: The social positioning of taste and civic culture in the United States

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 611, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 31-50

  Friedland, Lewis ^a   Shah, Dhavan V ^a   Lee, Nam Jin ^a   Rademacher, Mark A ^a   Atkinson, Lucy ^a   Hove, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bourdieu; Correspondence analysis; Cultural capital; High culture; Middlebrow; Omnivore; Political participation; Popular culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247588093     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716206298694     Document Type: Article

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