Alan Warde

Abstract: Over the past few decades there has been increasing examination of the role of social and cultural processes in the generation of social inequalities (Bennett et al., 2009; Le Roux et al., 2008; Li et al., 2008). The dominant view at the end of the twentieth century was that in contemporary postindustrial Western societies the effects of class on sociocultural practices and identities had faded. The grounds for such conclusions were various, including individualization, postindustrial occupational transition, the emergence of new forms of social engagement, and the reworking of cultural identities and transformation of the cultural landscape. Nevertheless, qualitative investigations continued to throw up evidence of powerful class differences in cultural practices (Skeggs, 1997; Charlesworth, 2000; Savage et al., 2001, 2005). These results were not, however, replicated in analysis of largescale survey data which, while tending to unearth the apparently benign phenomenon of cultural omnivorousness, found this to be strongly associated with education, not with class (Chan and Goldthorpe, 2007). There has also been much research in social capital, especially in the last two decades, showing considerable class effects (Hall, 1999; Li et al., 2003, 2005, 2008). But there has been little research linking class, social capital and cultural practice. In this analysis we seek to make a contribution to this by providing evidence of a close relationship between social and cultural capital, both underpinned by processes of social stratification as indicated by people’s social mobility trajectories. We begin by reflecting on recent developments in two competing approaches to class analysis: ‘the employment aggregate approach’ (Crompton, 1998), and ‘the cultural class analysis’ (Atkinson, 2010). We maintain that it is possible to advance a synthesis which offers a distinctive perspective to debate about classlessness, focusing on the relationship between patterns of social mobility and sociocultural practices. The second part of the chapter introduces our data, the Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion survey, and explains our methods and procedures. The third section examines the clustering of sociocultural practices in the UK, demonstrating the close associations between the two domains of practices and the clear divisions between those pursuing ‘legitimate culture’, ‘commercial culture’ and more domestic entertainment centred on watching television. This is a necessary preliminary step to the analysis undertaken in the next section to determine how sociocultural practices are associated with the cumulative social advantages and disadvantages embedded in people’s class mobility trajectories, as well as with parental cultural characteristics.

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TL;DR: In this article, a systematic comparison of articles about food and its preparation in popular British women's magazines in 1967-68 and 1991-92 was carried out, where the articles were subjected to a rudimentary content analysis and have been interpreted in terms of a series of four antinomies which are used to recommend recipes to readers.