Abstract
This study adopts Bourdieu’s relational analytical strategy to investigate the relation between lifestyle and social stratification in the Chinese urban population. Multiple correspondence analysis and clustering illuminate a typology of four lifestyles: (1) disengagement from consumer culture, (2) self-restrained consumption of highbrow products, (3) preference for intellectualized and ephemeral leisure activities, and (4) economically and culturally well-established consumer-buyers. A multinomial logistics regression validates the association of lifestyle with cultural and economic capital. Capital structure seems less influential in China than in Western European societies, while generation emerges as a unique differentiator under rapid social transformation.
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