Cultural omnivores or culturally homeless? Exploring the shifting cultural identities of the upwardly mobile
Cultural omnivores or culturally homeless? Exploring the shifting cultural identities of the upwardly mobile
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10.1016/j.poetic.2012.07.001
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2012-10-01
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2.5
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Friedman, Sam
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作者：
Friedman, Sam
文化杂食者的概念在文化社会学中的影响越来越大。它的支持者认为，它已成为一个荣誉的徽章，在一个人的文化偏好兼收并蓄，而不是被视为“势利小人”。甚至有人认为，杂食性提供了一个新的社会和文化资本的来源，提高了一个人的能力，与不同群体的沟通和培养更大的政治宽容。在喜剧消费者中，！只在一个向上移动的社会群体中发现杂食性。然而，这些受访者的生活史表明，杂食性更多的是生活轨迹的副产品，其中低俗的喜剧口味是在童年时期建立的，但高雅的口味增加了文化资本的增长。然而，值得注意的是，这种品味的结合带来的负面影响大于正面影响，使移动的受访者对自己的文化身份感到不确定。虽然他们缺乏“自然”的信心来传达作为体现文化资本的合法品味，但他们也敏锐地意识到，他们的低俗品味被认为是美学上的低劣。简而言之，这些喜剧消费者在文化上无家可归，一只脚陷入了两种不同的品味文化。(C)2012爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
The concept of the cultural omnivore has become increasingly influential in cultural sociology. Its proponents argue that it has become a badge of honour to be eclectic in one's cultural preferences and not be seen as a "snob". It is even argued that omnivorousness provides a new source of social and cultural capital, enhancing one's ability to communicate with diverse groups and nurturing greater political tolerance.Drawing on a large-scale survey of British comedy taste and 24 follow-up interviews, this paper challenges existing representations of the omnivore. Among comedy consumers,! find omnivorousness only within one social group the upwardly mobile. However, the life histories of these respondents reveal that omnivorousness is more a by-product of life trajectories whereby lowbrow comedy taste is established during childhood but highbrow tastes are added as cultural capital grows. Significantly, though, this combination of tastes has more negative than positive implications, leaving mobile respondents uncertain of their cultural identities. While they lack the "natural" confidence to communicate legitimate tastes as embodied cultural capital, they are also acutely aware that their lowbrow tastes are considered aesthetically inferior. In short, these comedy consumers are culturally homeless, caught with one foot in two different taste cultures. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.