Class, Culture and Culinary Tastes: Cultural Distinctions and Social Class Divisions in Contemporary Norway.
In this article we analyse class cultures by mapping out differences in ‘original taste’; that is, respondents’ classed preferences for food and drink. By employing Multiple Correspondence Analysis, we produce a relational model of tastes. Using three indicators of social class – occupational class,...
| Publicado en: | Sociology Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 128 - 150 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Feb2018
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