Cultivating differences : symbolic boundaries and the making of inequality

Met lit. opg. - Met reg. Essays about culture, class, gender and boundaries. They cover four topic areas: the institutionalization of cultural categories, from morality to popular culture; the exclusionary effects of high culture, from musical tastes to the role of art museums; the role of ethnicity and gender in shaping symbolic boundaries; the role of democracy in creating inclusion and exclusion. Subjects of the essays amongst others are the extension of the High culture model to theater, opera and dance 1900-1940. The audience for abstract arts: class, culture and power. Women and the production of status cultures.