Magne P Flemmen
Biographic Data
| ID | 251459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Magne P Flemmen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Magne P |
| FAMILY NAME | Flemmen |
| SIGNATURE | FLEMMEN M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2273-3913 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 558 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Green Against Greed: Negating Economic Capital Through Ecological Distinction
Pro-environmental attitudes are more prevalent among the affluent and educated, both across and within societies. However, the underpinnings of this pattern remain debated. Some scholars view environmental engagement as a politics of prosperity, emerging among groups whose material needs are sufficiently met to prioritize non-material concerns. Others interpret ecological commitment as a form of symbolic distinction, reinforcing social hierarchie…
Distinctions in the making: A theoretical discussion of youth and cultural capital
The aim of this paper is to address the dynamics of contemporary cultural capital by interrogating what counts for young people as valuable cultural resources. Considerable support is given in later scholarship for Bourdieu’s model of the social space, as the overall volume of economic and cultural capital combined is regularly found to be the most important axis of opposition, just as in Bourdieu’s work Distinction . Yet, while Bourdieu found th…
Intersections of class, lifestyle and politics. New observations from Norway
Although social class was once central to political sociology, it has become increasingly less so; many analysts now believe that one’s class position is less important in determining political attitudes and political party preferences. Simultaneously, more attention has been paid to what might be called the culturalization of politics, as epitomized by the US culture wars and stereotypes like the “latte-drinking liberal.” Here, political attitud…
Om hva klasse er, og hvordan det virker
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Life Narratives and Personal Identity: The End of Linear Social Mobility
This paper uses visualisations of life trajectories drawn from the 1958 National Child Development Survey to show how this generation refused linear narratives of mobility in favour of jags and turning points. We argue that these visualisations demonstrate the limitations of conventional class-based interpretations of social mobility. . We show how these jags represent moments of switching between public and private lives, demonstrating the inter…
Class and status: Reply to Comments
Omnivorousness and openness: Comments to Tak Wing Chan
The discreet charm of the children of the bourgeoisie: Economic Capital and Its Symbolic Expressions at an Elite Business School
We address a largely neglected issue in contemporary research on cultural class divisions: economic capital and its associated lifestyles and symbolic expressions. Using qualitative interviews, we explore how adolescents from wealthy elite backgrounds, namely students at Oslo Commerce School (OCS), traditionally one of the most prestigious upper-secondary schools in Norway, demarcate themselves symbolically from others. They draw symbolic boundar…
A struggle on two fronts: Boundary Drawing in the Lower Region of the Social Space and the Symbolic Market for 'Down-to-Earthness
In this article we use qualitative interviews to examine how Norwegians possessing low volumes of cultural and economic capital demarcate themselves symbolically from the lifestyles of those above and below them in social space. In downward boundary drawing, a range of types of people are regarded as inferior because of perceived moral and aesthetic deficiencies. In upward boundary drawing, anti-elitist sentiments are strong: people practising re…
Class and status: On the misconstrual of the conceptual distinction and a neo-Bourdieusian alternative
In this article, we address the classical debate about the relationship between the economic and cultural aspects of social stratification, typically cast in terms of Weber's distinction between class and status. We discuss in particular Chan and Goldthorpe's influential, yet largely unchallenged, attempt to reinstate a strict version of the class-status distinction, mounted as an attack on 'Bourdieusian' accounts. We argue that this is unconvinc…
From Class Politics to Classed Politics
Questions of political conflict have always been central to class analysis; changing political fault lines were a key argument in the debates about the 'death of class'. The ensuing 'cultural turn' in class analysis has shown how class continues to shape lives and experience, though often in new ways. In this article, we bring this mode of analysis to the political domain by unpacking how a multidimensional concept of class - based on the ideas o…
Social space and cultural class divisions: The Forms of Capital and Contemporary Lifestyle Differentiation
In this article, we address whether and how contemporary social classes are marked by distinct lifestyles. We assess the model of the social space, a novel approach to class analysis pioneered by Bourdieu's Distinction. Although pivotal in Bourdieu's work, this model is too often overlooked in later research, making its contemporary relevance difficult to assess. We redress this by using the social space as a framework through which to study the …
Revenge of the nerds: Cultural capital and the politics of lifestyle among adolescent elites
Social class, symbolic domination, and Angst: The example of the Norwegian social space
Today, 'fear' in its diverse facets is a topic growing in relevance in the media discourse. However, apart from analyses of individual psychic pathologies or general macro-sociological diagnoses, it has been largely neglected in (empirical) social sciences. The increasingly influential works of Bourdieu are no exception here, even though the concept of habitus inherently transcends positive interests such as lifestyle preferences, as analyzed in …
Class, Culture and Culinary Tastes: Cultural Distinctions and Social Class Divisions in Contemporary Norway
In this article we analyse class cultures by mapping out differences in 'original taste'; that is, respondents' classed preferences for food and drink. By employing Multiple Correspondence Analysis, we produce a relational model of tastes. Using three indicators of social class - occupational class, income and education - we find clear class divisions. The upper and middle classes exhibit diverse and what are typically regarded as 'healthy' taste…
Social Closure
Social closure was a concept coined by Max Weber to refer to monopolization of privileges. It was further developed by Frank Parkin and Raymond Murphy into a full‐fledged theory of class and stratification.
Class and politics in twenty-first century Norway: A homology of positions and position-taking
This article draws on Pierre Bourdieu's rethinking of social class to investigate the connection between class and politics in contemporary society. We introduce a new class scheme that incorporates an often neglected hallmark of Bourdieu's approach, namely the distinction between class fractions based on the preponderance of economic or cultural capital possessed. By relating our two-dimensional concept of class to a two-dimensional political sp…
The politics of nationalism and white racism in the UK
This paper considers the contemporary significance of white racism and its association with nationalist sentiment amongst a cohort late middle aged white Britons, using survey responses and qualitative interviews from the 1958 National Child Development Study. We have shown that although overt racism is very limited, a substantial minority of white Britons display ambivalent feelings which have the potential to be mobilised in racist directions. …
The Decline and Persistence of the Old Boy: Private Schools and Elite Recruitment 1897 to 2016
We draw on 120 years of biographical data ( N = 120,764) contained within Who's Who-a unique catalogue of the British elite-to explore the changing relationship between elite schools and elite recruitment. We find that the propulsive power of Britain's public schools has diminished significantly over time. This is driven in part by the wane of military and religious elites, and the rise of women in the labor force. However, the most dramatic decl…
Forms of Capital and Modes of Closure in Upper Class Reproduction
We investigate the recruitment into the upper class, analysing the impact of different forms of capital and modes of closure. Unlike many Bourdieu-influenced approaches to class, we systematically investigate divisions by composition of capital: the relative weight of economic to cultural capital. We find capital-specific barriers to mobility: access to the upper class fractions is not only differentiated by one's parents' volume of capital or th…
Response: Not So Fast: A Comment on Atkinson and Deeming's ‘Class and Cuisine in Contemporary Britain: The Social Space, the Space of Food and their Homology’
In a recent paper in The Sociological Review, Atkinson and Deeming argue that tastes in food are homologous to the social space, exactly as it was in Bourdieu's Distinction. This would involve differences in food tastes not only along the class hierarchy, but also a clear-cut divide by the relative weight of cultural and economic capital. However, Atkinson and Deeming base their claims on insufficient data analysis: They misinterpret their own co…
The Politics of the Service Class
Claims of the demise of class were in part fuelled by problems facing a class analysis of contemporary politics. Central to this was the emergence of the ‘new middle class’. Debates revolved around whether it would constitute a source of radicalism or conservatism. John Goldthorpe's concept of the service class has proven to be the most enduring contribution to these debates. The service class, Goldthorpe held, would constitute an essentially con…
Putting Bourdieu to work for class analysis: Reflections on Some Recent Contributions
Recent developments in class analysis, particularly associated with so-called 'cultural class analysis'; have seen the works of Pierre Bourdieu take centre stage. Apart from the general influence of 'habitus' and 'cultural capital', some scholars have tried to reconstruct class analysis with concepts drawn from Bourdieu. This involves a theoretical reorientation, away from the conventional concerns of class analysis with property and market relat…
The Structure of the Upper Class: A Social Space Approach
This article seeks to identify the internal divisions within the 'upper class' of Norway, defined as comprising different types of property owners, top executives and business managers. Bourdieu's concepts of social space and forms of capital are applied to construct a social space of the Norwegian economic upper class by subjecting 12 indicators of capital to Multiple Correspondence Analysis. Central issues in the sociology of elites and upper c…
Om demokratipessimisme og sosiologiens rolle
Social space and cultural class divisions: The Forms of Capital and Contemporary Lifestyle Differentiation
In this article, we address whether and how contemporary social classes are marked by distinct lifestyles. We assess the model of the social space, a novel approach to class analysis pioneered by Bourdieu's Distinction. Although pivotal in Bourdieu's work, this model is too often overlooked in later research, making its contemporary relevance difficult to assess. We redress this by using the social space as a framework through which to study the …
The Decline and Persistence of the Old Boy: Private Schools and Elite Recruitment 1897 to 2016
We draw on 120 years of biographical data ( N = 120,764) contained within Who's Who-a unique catalogue of the British elite-to explore the changing relationship between elite schools and elite recruitment. We find that the propulsive power of Britain's public schools has diminished significantly over time. This is driven in part by the wane of military and religious elites, and the rise of women in the labor force. However, the most dramatic decl…
A struggle on two fronts: Boundary Drawing in the Lower Region of the Social Space and the Symbolic Market for 'Down-to-Earthness
In this article we use qualitative interviews to examine how Norwegians possessing low volumes of cultural and economic capital demarcate themselves symbolically from the lifestyles of those above and below them in social space. In downward boundary drawing, a range of types of people are regarded as inferior because of perceived moral and aesthetic deficiencies. In upward boundary drawing, anti-elitist sentiments are strong: people practising re…
Class and status: On the misconstrual of the conceptual distinction and a neo-Bourdieusian alternative
In this article, we address the classical debate about the relationship between the economic and cultural aspects of social stratification, typically cast in terms of Weber's distinction between class and status. We discuss in particular Chan and Goldthorpe's influential, yet largely unchallenged, attempt to reinstate a strict version of the class-status distinction, mounted as an attack on 'Bourdieusian' accounts. We argue that this is unconvinc…
Putting Bourdieu to work for class analysis: Reflections on Some Recent Contributions
Recent developments in class analysis, particularly associated with so-called 'cultural class analysis'; have seen the works of Pierre Bourdieu take centre stage. Apart from the general influence of 'habitus' and 'cultural capital', some scholars have tried to reconstruct class analysis with concepts drawn from Bourdieu. This involves a theoretical reorientation, away from the conventional concerns of class analysis with property and market relat…
Forms of Capital and Modes of Closure in Upper Class Reproduction
We investigate the recruitment into the upper class, analysing the impact of different forms of capital and modes of closure. Unlike many Bourdieu-influenced approaches to class, we systematically investigate divisions by composition of capital: the relative weight of economic to cultural capital. We find capital-specific barriers to mobility: access to the upper class fractions is not only differentiated by one's parents' volume of capital or th…
The politics of nationalism and white racism in the UK
This paper considers the contemporary significance of white racism and its association with nationalist sentiment amongst a cohort late middle aged white Britons, using survey responses and qualitative interviews from the 1958 National Child Development Study. We have shown that although overt racism is very limited, a substantial minority of white Britons display ambivalent feelings which have the potential to be mobilised in racist directions. …
Revenge of the nerds: Cultural capital and the politics of lifestyle among adolescent elites
The Structure of the Upper Class: A Social Space Approach
This article seeks to identify the internal divisions within the 'upper class' of Norway, defined as comprising different types of property owners, top executives and business managers. Bourdieu's concepts of social space and forms of capital are applied to construct a social space of the Norwegian economic upper class by subjecting 12 indicators of capital to Multiple Correspondence Analysis. Central issues in the sociology of elites and upper c…
Class and politics in twenty-first century Norway: A homology of positions and position-taking
This article draws on Pierre Bourdieu's rethinking of social class to investigate the connection between class and politics in contemporary society. We introduce a new class scheme that incorporates an often neglected hallmark of Bourdieu's approach, namely the distinction between class fractions based on the preponderance of economic or cultural capital possessed. By relating our two-dimensional concept of class to a two-dimensional political sp…
The discreet charm of the children of the bourgeoisie: Economic Capital and Its Symbolic Expressions at an Elite Business School
We address a largely neglected issue in contemporary research on cultural class divisions: economic capital and its associated lifestyles and symbolic expressions. Using qualitative interviews, we explore how adolescents from wealthy elite backgrounds, namely students at Oslo Commerce School (OCS), traditionally one of the most prestigious upper-secondary schools in Norway, demarcate themselves symbolically from others. They draw symbolic boundar…
Class, Culture and Culinary Tastes: Cultural Distinctions and Social Class Divisions in Contemporary Norway
In this article we analyse class cultures by mapping out differences in 'original taste'; that is, respondents' classed preferences for food and drink. By employing Multiple Correspondence Analysis, we produce a relational model of tastes. Using three indicators of social class - occupational class, income and education - we find clear class divisions. The upper and middle classes exhibit diverse and what are typically regarded as 'healthy' taste…
Social class, symbolic domination, and Angst: The example of the Norwegian social space
Today, 'fear' in its diverse facets is a topic growing in relevance in the media discourse. However, apart from analyses of individual psychic pathologies or general macro-sociological diagnoses, it has been largely neglected in (empirical) social sciences. The increasingly influential works of Bourdieu are no exception here, even though the concept of habitus inherently transcends positive interests such as lifestyle preferences, as analyzed in …
From Class Politics to Classed Politics
Questions of political conflict have always been central to class analysis; changing political fault lines were a key argument in the debates about the 'death of class'. The ensuing 'cultural turn' in class analysis has shown how class continues to shape lives and experience, though often in new ways. In this article, we bring this mode of analysis to the political domain by unpacking how a multidimensional concept of class - based on the ideas o…
Distinctions in the making: A theoretical discussion of youth and cultural capital
The aim of this paper is to address the dynamics of contemporary cultural capital by interrogating what counts for young people as valuable cultural resources. Considerable support is given in later scholarship for Bourdieu’s model of the social space, as the overall volume of economic and cultural capital combined is regularly found to be the most important axis of opposition, just as in Bourdieu’s work Distinction . Yet, while Bourdieu found th…
The Politics of the Service Class
Claims of the demise of class were in part fuelled by problems facing a class analysis of contemporary politics. Central to this was the emergence of the ‘new middle class’. Debates revolved around whether it would constitute a source of radicalism or conservatism. John Goldthorpe's concept of the service class has proven to be the most enduring contribution to these debates. The service class, Goldthorpe held, would constitute an essentially con…
Life Narratives and Personal Identity: The End of Linear Social Mobility
This paper uses visualisations of life trajectories drawn from the 1958 National Child Development Survey to show how this generation refused linear narratives of mobility in favour of jags and turning points. We argue that these visualisations demonstrate the limitations of conventional class-based interpretations of social mobility. . We show how these jags represent moments of switching between public and private lives, demonstrating the inter…
Intersections of class, lifestyle and politics. New observations from Norway
Although social class was once central to political sociology, it has become increasingly less so; many analysts now believe that one’s class position is less important in determining political attitudes and political party preferences. Simultaneously, more attention has been paid to what might be called the culturalization of politics, as epitomized by the US culture wars and stereotypes like the “latte-drinking liberal.” Here, political attitud…
Den økonomiske overklassens sosiale lukning
DEN ØKONOMISKE OVERKLASSENS SOSIALE LUKNING Magne Flemmen Denne artikkelen tar for seg spørsmålet om sosial lukning av den økonomiske overklassen i Norge. Klasselukning betegner en tilstand preget av markert sosial ulikhet i sannsynligheten for å oppnå en bestemt klasseposisjon, altså en viss intergenerasjonell stabilitet. Forskningsspørsmålet er i hvilken grad klassebakgrunn påvirker ens sjanse for å være i den økonomiske overklassen – forstått …
Omnivorousness and openness: Comments to Tak Wing Chan
Class and status: Reply to Comments
Green Against Greed: Negating Economic Capital Through Ecological Distinction
Pro-environmental attitudes are more prevalent among the affluent and educated, both across and within societies. However, the underpinnings of this pattern remain debated. Some scholars view environmental engagement as a politics of prosperity, emerging among groups whose material needs are sufficiently met to prioritize non-material concerns. Others interpret ecological commitment as a form of symbolic distinction, reinforcing social hierarchie…
Den økonomiske overklassens sosiale lukning
DEN ØKONOMISKE OVERKLASSENS SOSIALE LUKNING Magne Flemmen Denne artikkelen tar for seg spørsmålet om sosial lukning av den økonomiske overklassen i Norge. Klasselukning betegner en tilstand preget av markert sosial ulikhet i sannsynligheten for å oppnå en bestemt klasseposisjon, altså en viss intergenerasjonell stabilitet. Forskningsspørsmålet er i hvilken grad klassebakgrunn påvirker ens sjanse for å være i den økonomiske overklassen – forstått …
Om demokratipessimisme og sosiologiens rolle
The Structure of the Upper Class: A Social Space Approach
This article seeks to identify the internal divisions within the 'upper class' of Norway, defined as comprising different types of property owners, top executives and business managers. Bourdieu's concepts of social space and forms of capital are applied to construct a social space of the Norwegian economic upper class by subjecting 12 indicators of capital to Multiple Correspondence Analysis. Central issues in the sociology of elites and upper c…
The Politics of the Service Class
Claims of the demise of class were in part fuelled by problems facing a class analysis of contemporary politics. Central to this was the emergence of the ‘new middle class’. Debates revolved around whether it would constitute a source of radicalism or conservatism. John Goldthorpe's concept of the service class has proven to be the most enduring contribution to these debates. The service class, Goldthorpe held, would constitute an essentially con…
Putting Bourdieu to work for class analysis: Reflections on Some Recent Contributions
Recent developments in class analysis, particularly associated with so-called 'cultural class analysis'; have seen the works of Pierre Bourdieu take centre stage. Apart from the general influence of 'habitus' and 'cultural capital', some scholars have tried to reconstruct class analysis with concepts drawn from Bourdieu. This involves a theoretical reorientation, away from the conventional concerns of class analysis with property and market relat…
Response: Not So Fast: A Comment on Atkinson and Deeming's ‘Class and Cuisine in Contemporary Britain: The Social Space, the Space of Food and their Homology’
In a recent paper in The Sociological Review, Atkinson and Deeming argue that tastes in food are homologous to the social space, exactly as it was in Bourdieu's Distinction. This would involve differences in food tastes not only along the class hierarchy, but also a clear-cut divide by the relative weight of cultural and economic capital. However, Atkinson and Deeming base their claims on insufficient data analysis: They misinterpret their own co…
Social Closure
Social closure was a concept coined by Max Weber to refer to monopolization of privileges. It was further developed by Frank Parkin and Raymond Murphy into a full‐fledged theory of class and stratification.
Class and politics in twenty-first century Norway: A homology of positions and position-taking
This article draws on Pierre Bourdieu's rethinking of social class to investigate the connection between class and politics in contemporary society. We introduce a new class scheme that incorporates an often neglected hallmark of Bourdieu's approach, namely the distinction between class fractions based on the preponderance of economic or cultural capital possessed. By relating our two-dimensional concept of class to a two-dimensional political sp…
The politics of nationalism and white racism in the UK
This paper considers the contemporary significance of white racism and its association with nationalist sentiment amongst a cohort late middle aged white Britons, using survey responses and qualitative interviews from the 1958 National Child Development Study. We have shown that although overt racism is very limited, a substantial minority of white Britons display ambivalent feelings which have the potential to be mobilised in racist directions. …
The Decline and Persistence of the Old Boy: Private Schools and Elite Recruitment 1897 to 2016
We draw on 120 years of biographical data ( N = 120,764) contained within Who's Who-a unique catalogue of the British elite-to explore the changing relationship between elite schools and elite recruitment. We find that the propulsive power of Britain's public schools has diminished significantly over time. This is driven in part by the wane of military and religious elites, and the rise of women in the labor force. However, the most dramatic decl…
Forms of Capital and Modes of Closure in Upper Class Reproduction
We investigate the recruitment into the upper class, analysing the impact of different forms of capital and modes of closure. Unlike many Bourdieu-influenced approaches to class, we systematically investigate divisions by composition of capital: the relative weight of economic to cultural capital. We find capital-specific barriers to mobility: access to the upper class fractions is not only differentiated by one's parents' volume of capital or th…
Social space and cultural class divisions: The Forms of Capital and Contemporary Lifestyle Differentiation
In this article, we address whether and how contemporary social classes are marked by distinct lifestyles. We assess the model of the social space, a novel approach to class analysis pioneered by Bourdieu's Distinction. Although pivotal in Bourdieu's work, this model is too often overlooked in later research, making its contemporary relevance difficult to assess. We redress this by using the social space as a framework through which to study the …
Revenge of the nerds: Cultural capital and the politics of lifestyle among adolescent elites
Social class, symbolic domination, and Angst: The example of the Norwegian social space
Today, 'fear' in its diverse facets is a topic growing in relevance in the media discourse. However, apart from analyses of individual psychic pathologies or general macro-sociological diagnoses, it has been largely neglected in (empirical) social sciences. The increasingly influential works of Bourdieu are no exception here, even though the concept of habitus inherently transcends positive interests such as lifestyle preferences, as analyzed in …
Class, Culture and Culinary Tastes: Cultural Distinctions and Social Class Divisions in Contemporary Norway
In this article we analyse class cultures by mapping out differences in 'original taste'; that is, respondents' classed preferences for food and drink. By employing Multiple Correspondence Analysis, we produce a relational model of tastes. Using three indicators of social class - occupational class, income and education - we find clear class divisions. The upper and middle classes exhibit diverse and what are typically regarded as 'healthy' taste…
Life Narratives and Personal Identity: The End of Linear Social Mobility
This paper uses visualisations of life trajectories drawn from the 1958 National Child Development Survey to show how this generation refused linear narratives of mobility in favour of jags and turning points. We argue that these visualisations demonstrate the limitations of conventional class-based interpretations of social mobility. . We show how these jags represent moments of switching between public and private lives, demonstrating the inter…
Class and status: Reply to Comments
Omnivorousness and openness: Comments to Tak Wing Chan
The discreet charm of the children of the bourgeoisie: Economic Capital and Its Symbolic Expressions at an Elite Business School
We address a largely neglected issue in contemporary research on cultural class divisions: economic capital and its associated lifestyles and symbolic expressions. Using qualitative interviews, we explore how adolescents from wealthy elite backgrounds, namely students at Oslo Commerce School (OCS), traditionally one of the most prestigious upper-secondary schools in Norway, demarcate themselves symbolically from others. They draw symbolic boundar…
A struggle on two fronts: Boundary Drawing in the Lower Region of the Social Space and the Symbolic Market for 'Down-to-Earthness
In this article we use qualitative interviews to examine how Norwegians possessing low volumes of cultural and economic capital demarcate themselves symbolically from the lifestyles of those above and below them in social space. In downward boundary drawing, a range of types of people are regarded as inferior because of perceived moral and aesthetic deficiencies. In upward boundary drawing, anti-elitist sentiments are strong: people practising re…
Class and status: On the misconstrual of the conceptual distinction and a neo-Bourdieusian alternative
In this article, we address the classical debate about the relationship between the economic and cultural aspects of social stratification, typically cast in terms of Weber's distinction between class and status. We discuss in particular Chan and Goldthorpe's influential, yet largely unchallenged, attempt to reinstate a strict version of the class-status distinction, mounted as an attack on 'Bourdieusian' accounts. We argue that this is unconvinc…
From Class Politics to Classed Politics
Questions of political conflict have always been central to class analysis; changing political fault lines were a key argument in the debates about the 'death of class'. The ensuing 'cultural turn' in class analysis has shown how class continues to shape lives and experience, though often in new ways. In this article, we bring this mode of analysis to the political domain by unpacking how a multidimensional concept of class - based on the ideas o…
Om hva klasse er, og hvordan det virker
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Intersections of class, lifestyle and politics. New observations from Norway
Although social class was once central to political sociology, it has become increasingly less so; many analysts now believe that one’s class position is less important in determining political attitudes and political party preferences. Simultaneously, more attention has been paid to what might be called the culturalization of politics, as epitomized by the US culture wars and stereotypes like the “latte-drinking liberal.” Here, political attitud…
Distinctions in the making: A theoretical discussion of youth and cultural capital
The aim of this paper is to address the dynamics of contemporary cultural capital by interrogating what counts for young people as valuable cultural resources. Considerable support is given in later scholarship for Bourdieu’s model of the social space, as the overall volume of economic and cultural capital combined is regularly found to be the most important axis of opposition, just as in Bourdieu’s work Distinction . Yet, while Bourdieu found th…
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