The Production of Distinctions: Class, Gender, and Taste Work in the Lifestyle Management Industry

Qualitative Sociology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 201-219

  Sherman, Rachel ^a  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Class; Dispositions; Gender; Lifestyle management; Taste

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951948577     PISSN: 01620436     EISSN: 15737837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11133-010-9178-5     Document Type: Article

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