Cultural vs Economic Capital: Symbolic Boundaries within the Middle Class.
This article concerns an insufficiently studied link in cultural class analysis, namely that between class-structured lifestyle differences and social closure. It employs a modified version of Michele Lamont's promising, yet under-theorised approach to the study of symbolic boundaries -- the concept...
| Publicado en: | Sociology Vol. 51; no. 2; pp. 357 - 374 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Apr2017
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