Abstract
Omar Lizardo, Sara Skiles Sociological Science, February 11, 2016 DOI 10.15195/v3.a5 Abstract In this article, we aim to contribute to recent work in the sociology of taste on the role of cultural dislikes as resources for symbolic exclusion and identity construction.
Highlights
In this article, we aim to contribute to recent work in the sociology of taste on the role of cultural dislikes as resources for symbolic exclusion and identity construction
The basic idea is that rejection of certain cultural forms—what Bryson (1996:886) has referred to as “symbolic exclusion”—is a proxy for rejecting the persons that are perceived to be the audiences of those forms
When comparing the truncated distributions, the null hypothesis of no difference cannot be rejected at conventional levels of statistical significance (|z|= 1.68; p = 0.09), suggesting that except for the zero category the distributions of dislikes do come from comparable populations
Summary
We aim to contribute to recent work in the sociology of taste on the role of cultural dislikes as resources for symbolic exclusion and identity construction. The basic idea is that rejection of certain cultural forms—what Bryson (1996:886) has referred to as “symbolic exclusion”—is a proxy for rejecting the persons that are perceived to be the audiences of those forms (social exclusion). Both symbolic and social exclusion are, in their turn, intimately tied to identity-construction projects (Bryson 1997). The main empirical prediction is that symbolic exclusion should flow from the top to the bottom of the status ladder, with the privileged drawing boundaries in relation to the culture preferred by nonelites
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