This paper provides a detailed review of Thompson, Bourdieu, and Gans. These three sociologists developed such cultural concepts as taste, habitus, and experience in discussing social class and social stratification s...This paper provides a detailed review of Thompson, Bourdieu, and Gans. These three sociologists developed such cultural concepts as taste, habitus, and experience in discussing social class and social stratification structures. These conceptualizations are complementary to a structural perspective on social class and social stratification that is prevailing in sociology today, and thus indicate the transition of cultural sociology toward maturity.展开更多
文摘This paper provides a detailed review of Thompson, Bourdieu, and Gans. These three sociologists developed such cultural concepts as taste, habitus, and experience in discussing social class and social stratification structures. These conceptualizations are complementary to a structural perspective on social class and social stratification that is prevailing in sociology today, and thus indicate the transition of cultural sociology toward maturity.
