Abstract Although the Artist's Contract, first developed in 1971, was not broadly adopted in
its early decades, renewed interest in it fifty years later has led to inventive related structures …

With the rise of digital capitalism, a novel occupational segment has emerged: so-called
'tech workers'. Members of this grouping render and encode the digital technologies that …

Research on cultural stratification often draws on Bourdieu's misrecognition model to
interpret socioeconomic gradients in cultural tastes and participation. In this model, an …

Theories in sociology argue that family background and individual experiences shape
cultural tastes and participation. Yet, we do not know the relative importance of each …

Teachers are the evaluators of academic merit. Identifying if their assessments are fair or
biased by student-ascribed status is critical for equal opportunity but empirically challenging …

How do organizational audience members value products and services? We examine here
consumers called “cosmopolitans”(individuals who think beyond a single geographical …

Recent work in the sociology of taste has begun to grapple with the relational properties of
traditional survey-based data using techniques inspired by network analysis. Despite …

Sociological literature on cultural practices seeking to understand the social differentiation of
taste pays limited attention to what people avoid consuming, despite its potential as a …

This chapter reviews theoretical and empirical work linking the study of social capital–
conceptualized as resources embedded in networks–and cultural capital–conceptualized as …

How does television taste function as cultural capital in contemporary China? This study
shows how Chinese youth engage with global television fiction to mark their positions in …