The view of cultural stratification that places a discriminating and exclusive elite on the top
and an undiscriminating mass on the bottom is questioned. Using a log-multiplicative model …

A framework is proposed to analyze the relationships between social structure, patterns of
artistic consumption and production, and the ways in which artistic genres are classified …

Bourdieu's theory of cultural reproduction has been highly influential within the sociology of
education. This paper will provide a critical introduction to Bourdieu's theory regarding the …

Using data from the Surveys of Public Participation in the Arts conducted in 1982, 1985, and
1992, we analyze the relationship between cultural careers and educational careers …

In this article we use recent survey data to test three arguments on the relationship between
social stratification and cultural consumption: ie what we label as the homology …

This paper examines inequalities in attainment in vocabulary and mathematics at age 16 for
a nationally representative cohort of people born in Britain in 1970 (the 1970 British Cohort …

The authors draw on Pierre Bourdieu's theory of cultural reproduction to develop a formal
model of the pathways through which cultural capital acts to enhance children's educational …

Using survey data on Blacks and Non-Hispanic Whites in 1982 and 1985, the authors
examine the link between racial inequality in schooling and differences in cultural capital …

This article argues that existing studies on cultural capital and educational success fail to
distinguish the different channels through which cultural capital promotes educational …

Recent international research describes a diminishing interest in leisure reading for almost
all western countries. In this article, we have investigated trends in leisure reading of the …