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The Role of Embodied Taste in Reproducing Class Distinctions

Quick fact

Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu found that a person's taste in food, art, and music is strongly correlated with their social class—even when income is controlled for—showing that taste functions as a marker that legitimizes upper-class lifestyles and devalues working-class ones.

Why this is interesting

Why do you prefer the foods and music you do? Could your preferences be quietly reinforcing the class structure?