Pratiques culturelles et hiérarchies sociales.

Bernard Lahire, La culture des individus. Dissonances culturelles et distinction de soi, 2004.

The question of the relations between social and cultural hierarchies is at once fundamental and difficult to tackle. The empirical acknowledgment of statistic correlations between social positions (indicated through educational level or professional status) and cultural practices (the consumption of diverse cultural products) can indeed be interpreted in many ways. One can suppose, for instance, that the social position influences the cultural choices, directly or through different “variables” such as resources (material and informational), more or [...]