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Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion

Project publications

Books

Bennett, T.; Savage, M.; Silva, E.; Warde, A.; Gayo-Cal, M. and Wright, D. (2009) Culture, Class, Distinction, London: Routledge. Paperback edition 2010.

Silva, E. and Warde, A. (eds) (2010) Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy: Settling accounts and developing alternatives. London: Routledge

Reports

Media Culture. The Social Organisation of Media Practices in Contemporary Britain. A report for the British Film Institute. Prepared by Tony Bennett, Mike Savage, Elizabeth Silva, Alan Warde, Modesto Gayo-Cal and David Wright

Working Papers

Silva, E.B and Edwards, R. (2004) Operationalizing Bourdieu on Capitals: A Discussion on 'The Construction of the Object' , ESRC methods programme, Working Paper 7.

Bennett, T., Savage, M. Silva, E. Warde, A., Gayo-Cal, M., Wright, D. (2005) Cultural capital and the cultural Field in contemporary Britain, CRESC Working Paper 3.

Savage, M., Gayo-Cal, M., Warde, A., Tampubolon, G. (2005) Cultural capital in the UK: a preliminary report using correspondence analysis, CRESC Working Paper 4.

Warde, A. and Wright, D. (2006) Understanding Cultural Omnivorousness or the myth of the omnivore, paper presented at the European Sociological Association Conference, Torun, Poland, September 2006.

Bennett, T. (2005) 'Cultural Participation and Social Division', paper presented to the IPPR workshop on Arts, Heritage and Civic Renewal.

Project methodology documents

Thomson, K. (2004) Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion: Survey Technical Report, London: National Centre for Social Research.

Silva, E.B. (2005) Household Study: Technical Report, CCSE document.

Journal Articles

Bennett, T. (2007) ‘Habitus clivé: aesthetics and politics in the work of Pierre Bourdieu’, New Literary History, 38 (1), 201-228

Gayo, M., Teitelboim, B., Méndez, M.L. (2009): “Patrones culturales de uso del tiempo libre en Chile. Un intento de evaluación de la teoría bourdieuana”, revista Universum (Universidad de Talca, Chile), año 24, no 2: pp.42-72.

LeRoux, B., Rouanet, H., Savage, M. and Warde, A. (2008) ‘Class and Cultural Division in the UK’, Sociology , 42, 6, pp 1049-1071.

Li Y, Savage M & Warde A, Social mobility and social capital in contemporary Britain, British Journal of Sociology, (2008), 59(3), 391-411.

Majima, S. & Warde, A. ‘Elite consumption in Britain, 1961-2004: results of a preliminary investigation’, in Savage, M. and Williams, .K (eds.) ‘Remembering Elites’, Sociological Review Monograph Series (2008) 210-39.

Savage, M., Wright, D, Gayo-Cal, M., ’Cosmopolitan nationalism and the cultural reach of the white British’, Nations and Nationalism ( 2010)

Savage, M., ‘The politics of elective belonging’, Housing, Theory and Society, (focus article, with five comments and a ‘response’, July, 2010, 26,1, 115-16.

Silva, E.B. and Wright, D. (2005) 'The judgement of taste and social position in focus group research', Sociologia l Ricerca Sociale, n. 76-77 (special edition on focus group methodology).

Silva, E.B. (2006) 'Homologies of social space and elective affinities: researching cultural capital' in Sociology, 40(6): 1171-1189. (Text to download as submitted. Not copy edited)

Silva, E. ( 2008) ‘Cultural capital and visual art in the contemporary UK’, Special Issue on ‘The consequences of instrumental museum and gallery policy’, Cultural Trends 17 (4): 267-287.

Silva, E.B. and Wright, D. (2008) ‘Researching Cultural Capital: Complexities in mixing methods’ in Methodological Innovations, vol 2, issue 3, published 13/12.2007).

Silva, E., Warde, A. and Wright, D. (2009) ‘Using mixed methods for analyzing culture: The Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion Project’, Cultural Sociology, 3(2): 299-316.

Silva, E.B. and Wright, D. (2009) ‘Display, desire and distinction in housing’, Cultural Sociology, 3(1): 31-50.

Warde, A., Wright, D. and Gayo-Cal, M. (2007) 'Understanding cultural omnivorousness: or, the myth of the cultural omnivore' in Cultural Sociology 1 (2): 143-164

Warde, A and Gayo-Cal M, ‘The anatomy of cultural omnivorousness; the case of Britain’, Poetics, (2009), 37 (April), 119-145.

Warde, A. ‘Introduction’, special edition, ‘Cultural Consumption, Classification and Power’, Journal of Cultural Economy , 1(3), (2008), 141-3.

Warde, A. ‘Dimensions of a social theory of taste’, Journal of Cultural Economy, 1(3), (2008).

Warde, A., Wright, D. and Gayo-Cal, M., ‘The omnivorousness orientation in the UK’, Poetics, (2008), 36(2) 148-165.

Warde, A. ‘Does taste still serve power?’, Sociologica: Italian Online Sociological Review, 3, (2008) 1-26.

Warde A ‘Does taste still serve power?: a response to the comments’, Sociologica: Italian Online Sociological Review , 3, (2008) 1-6.

Warde, A., Wright, D. and Gayo-Cal, M. ‘The meaning of cultural omnivorousness, or the myth of the cultural omnivore’, Cultural Sociology, (2007), 1(2), 143-64.

Warde, A. and Bennett, T. (2008) ‘A culture in common: The cultural consumption of the UK managerial elite’ in K.Williams and M. Savage (eds) Rethinking Elites, Sociological Review Monograph.

Chapters in books

Savage, M., Silva, E. and Warde, A. (2010) ‘Dis-identification and class identity’ in Silva, E. and Warde, A. (eds) Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy. Settling accounts and developing alternatives. London: Routledge. pp. 60-74.

Savage, M. (forthcoming 2010) ‘The lost urban sociology of Pierre Bourdieu’, in Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson (ed), Companion to the City, Oxford, Blackwells.

Silva, E. and Warde, A. (2010) ‘Introduction: The Importance of Bourdieu’ in Silva, E.B. and Warde, A. (eds) Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy. London: Routledge, pp.1-13

Silva, E. and Warde, A. (2010) ‘Epilogue: Bourdieu’s Legacy?’ in Silva, E.B. and Warde, A. (eds) Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy. London: Routledge, pp.157-160.

Warde, A. and Savage, M. (2009), ‘Il capitale culturale e l’analisi sociologica della cultura: una reinterpretazione’, in M Santoro (ed), Cultura in Italia : La Cultura come Capitale : consumi, produzioni, politiche, identita, Bologna, Societa Editrice il Mulino, 2009, 27-50.

Project-specific journal editions

Articles from Cultural Trends vol. 15 issue 2/3, June/September 2006, a special issue, Culture, Taste and Social Divisions in Contemporary Britain, edited by Tony Bennett and Elizabeth Silva.

Bennett, T. and Silva, E.B. (2006) 'Cultural Capital and Inequality: Policy Issues and Contexts', Cultural Trends, Vol. 15 (2/3): pp. 87-106.

Warde, A. (2006) 'Cultural Capital and the Place of Sport', Cultural Trends, Vol. 15 (2/3): pp.107-122.

Wright, D. (2006) 'Cultural Capital and the Literary Field', Cultural Trends, Vol. 15 (2/3):pp. 123-140.

Silva, E.B. (2006) 'Distinction Through Visual Art', Cultural Trends, Vol. 15 (2/3): pp. 141-158.

Savage, M. (2006) 'The Musical Field', Cultural Trends, Vol. 15 (2/3): pp 159-174.

Gayo-Cal, M. (2006) 'Leisure and Participation in Britain', Cultural Trends, Vol. 15 (2/3): pp 175-192.

Bennett, T. (2006) 'Distinction on the Box: Cultural Capital and the Social Space of Television', Cultural Trends, Vol. 15 (2/3): pp.193-212.

Gayo-Cal, M., Savage, M, and Warde, A. (2006) 'A Cultural Map of the United Kingdom', Cultural Trends, Vol.15 (2/3): pp. 213-238.

Bennett, T. (2006) 'Cultural Capital and Inequality: Refining the Policy Calculus', Cultural Trends, Vol. 15 (2/3): 239-244.

Articles from Cultural Trends Issue: Volume 13, Number 2, June 2004. Special Issue: Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion.

Bennett, T. and Savage, M. (2004) 'Introduction: Cultural Capital and Cultural Policy', Cultural Trends 13(2): pp7-14.

Looseley, D. (2004) 'The Development of a Social Exclusion Agenda in French Cultural Policy', Cultural Trends, Vol 13(2), No. 50, pp. 15-27.

Hill, J. (2004) 'UK Film Policy, Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion', Cultural Trends 13(2): pp 29-4 Cultural Trends 13(2): pp29-40.

Levitas, R. (2004) 'Let's Hear it for Humpty: Social Exclusion, the Third Way and Cultural Capital',  Cultural Trends 13(2): pp 41-56.

Roberts, K. (2004) 'Leisure Inequalities, Class Divisions and Social Exclusion in Present-Day Britain', Cultural Trends 13(2): pp 57-72.

Reay, D. (2004) 'Education and Cultural Capital: The Implication of Changing Trends in Education Policies',  Cultural Trends 13(2): pp 73-86.

Modood. T. (2004) 'Capitals, Ethnic Identity and Educational Qualifications', Cultural Trends 13(2): pp-87-106.

A special issue of the British Journal of Sociology (vol. 56, number 1) bringing together a selection of the papers presented at the Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion symposium in January 2003 was published in 2005.

Savage, M, and Bennett, T. (2005) 'Editors' introduction: Cultural capital and social inequality.', The British Journal of Sociology 56 (1):pp 1-12.

Robbins, D. (2005) 'The origins, early development and status of Bourdieu's concept of 'cultural capital'.', The British Journal of Sociology 56 (1):pp 13-30.

Savage, M., Warde, A. and Devine, F. (2005) 'Capitals, assets, and resources: some critical issues.', The British Journal of Sociology 56 (1): pp 31-47.

Gunn, S. (2005) 'Translating Bourdieu: cultural capital and the English middle class in historical perspective.' The British Journal of Sociology 56 (1): pp 49-64.

McCrone, D. (2005) 'Cultural capital in an understated nation: the case of Scotland.' The British Journal of Sociology 56 (1): pp 65-82.

Silva, E. B. (2005) 'Gender, home and family in cultural capital theory.', The British Journal of Sociology 56 (1): pp 83-103.

Wright, D. (2005) 'Mediating production and consumption: cultural capital and 'cultural workers'. The British Journal of Sociology 56 (1):pp 105-121.

Prior, N. (2005) 'A question of perception: Bourdieu, art and the postmodern.', The British Journal of Sociology 56 (1): pp 123-139.

Bennett, T. (2005) 'The historical universal: the role of cultural value in the historical sociology of Pierre Bourdieu.', The British Journal of Sociology 56 (1): pp 141-164.

Associated Projects

“Cultural capital: production, configuration and effects”, funded by the Universidad Diego Portales (Santiago, Chile), 2007-2008, led by Modesto Gayo-Cal.

“Determinants of cultural inequalities. A study of taste and cultural participation in Chile”, funded by the Chilean Government, 2010-2012, led by Modesto Gayo-Cal.

“Cultural consumption, and social class, gender and age inequalities: a comparative research of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay”, funded by the Carolina Foundation (Fundación Carolina, Madrid, Spain), 2010-2011, led by Modesto Gayo-Cal.

“Cultural capital and tastes in the UK and Finland”, funded by The British Academy 2009-2011, led by David Wright.

Podcasts

British Council, Counterpoint - Culture and Class: a conversation between John Holden and Elizabeth Silva

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