Consumer Culture, Taste Preferences, and Social Network Formation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12912410 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kyle Puetz (0000-0002-7530-0206, University of Arizona, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 438-449 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-9020 • E-ISSN: 1751-9020 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/soc4.12265 |
| OpenAlex | W1531078482 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 74 |
One of the most important and consistent findings in the social networks literature is that individuals are socially connected to people who resemble themselves. This finding extends to preferences for consumer culture. Whereas network theorists previously had presumed that social networks generated this outcome through a process of social influence, this traditional conception of the relationship between culture and social networks has been challenged by new theoretical perspectives and novel methodological techniques that enable researchers to empirically test the causal direction of the relationship. In this article, I first discuss how theorists have adjudicated between competing explanations of the relationship of taste preferences and social network structure. Second, I discuss how sociologists have theorized that tastes contribute to variation in network structure. Third, I examine survey and ethnographic research that discusses interactional mechanisms by which people actively mobilize culture to form social relationships. Fourth and finally, I discuss research that explores how consumer culture constitutes the meaning of social relationships and how relationship category affects theorizing of network formation
Epistemology · Ethnography · Meaning (existential · Social network (sociolinguistics · Sociology · Taste · Variation (astronomy · Anthropology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology · Wine Industry and Tourism
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Inequality in social capital
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The psychology of interpersonal relations.
Money, Morals, and Manners
Music Scenes
Relational Sociology, Culture, and Agency
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Social Capital
The Sociology of Economic Life
Systems of articulation, logics of change
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The Duality of Persons and Groups
Decay functions
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A decade of network change
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Morals Versus Art
Classification in Art
Changing Highbrow Taste
Cultural Reception and Production
Distinction, boundaries or bridges
How Cultural Tastes Shape Personal Networks
Culture and Competition
Hiring as Cultural Matching
The return of the natives
The arts as cultural capital among elites
The strength of weak culture
Musical boundaries
An Invitation of Reflexive Sociology
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The Gift
Authentic Identities
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Birds of a Feather
Cultural Holes
The Meaning Structure of Social Networks
Mapping Shared Understandings Using Relational Class Analysis
Subtle Signals of Inconspicuous Consumption
Escaping the Gift Economy
Motivation and Justification
Building Solidarity through Generalized Exchange
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Brand Community
Culture, Class, and Connections
Network Analysis, Culture, and the Problem of Agency
Rule Enforcement Without Visible Means
The Focused Organization of Social Ties
Rethinking Subculture
The Strength of Weak Ties
Variety in cultural choice and the activation of social ties
The cultural environment
Of yarmulkes and categories
Social class and arts consumption
The narrative constitution of identity
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |