Urban Distinctions

Class, Culture and Sociability in the City of Porto

Bibliographic Data

ID3189754
AuthorsB Pereira (0000-0002-6887-165X, Universidade do Porto, corresponding author), Virgílio Borges Pereira (0000-0003-0145-0858, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Via Panorâmica s/número, 4150‐569 Porto Portugal)
Year2018
Volume42
Issue1
Pages126-137
Publication date2018-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-2427.12532
OpenAlexW2790265224
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited30

This essay employs Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice and the methodology of Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) to extend the mapping of the dynamic relations between class and culture presented in Bourdieu'sDistinctionto encompass urban space, drawing on data from a multi-method research project on the city of Porto, Portugal. We present a detailed analysis of the formation and structure of local social space and show its relevance for the study of the (re)production of urban lifestyles. Differences in the volume and composition of the capital of city residents are identified and shown to underpin the relations between social positions, dispositions and position takings in various realms of cultural consumption. Meaningful configurations of 'lifestyle modalities' have clear roots in the city's social space, which in Portugal, as in France, can be interpreted in terms ofdistinction,pretensionandnecessity

Cultural capital · Economic geography · Epistemology · Geography · Linguistics · Political science · Social class · Social science · Sociology · Urban culture · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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