Richard A. Peterson

TL;DR: This article found that high-status persons are far from being snobs and are eclectic, even omnivorous, in their tastes, which suggests a qualitative shift in the basis for marking elite status-from snobbish exclusion to omnivouring appropriation.

TL;DR: This article used a log-multiplicative model to simultaneously stratify occupational groups and music preferences, and found that those in the upper occupational groups are more apt to like symphonic music and to engage in elite arts activities, while those in lowest occupational groups tend to like few activities and to strongly like one single non-elite form of music.

TL;DR: The production of culture perspective focuses on how the symbolic elements of culture are shaped by the systems within which they are created, distributed, evaluated, taught, and preserved as mentioned in this paper, and has been used in a wide range of research.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the structure of the music industry and the sorts of music produced over 26 years and found that a relatively long period of gradually increasing concentration is followed by a short burst of competition and diversity with changes in market structure preceding changes in music.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the role of comparative research on omnivorousness taste from its serendipitous discovery and its evolving conceptualization to questions about its passing, and point to six sources of erroneous findings that are due to artifacts introduced by the methodology.