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Šafr, Jiří

Životní styl a sociální třídy: vytváření symbolické kulturní hranice diferenciací vkusu a spotřeby

Šafr, Jiří. 2008. Životní styl a sociální třídy: vytváření symbolické kulturní hranice diferenciací vkusu a spotřeby. Praha: Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i. 165 s. ISBN 978-80-7330-154-5.

Šafr, Jiří. 2008. Lifestyle and Social Class in the Czech Republic: The Formation of Symbolic Cultural Boundaries by Differentiated Taste and Consumption. Praha: Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i.

The study pursues differentiation of lifestyle, cultural capital (taste, consumption) and social stratification. Analyses of MML 2004 data examine: class homology hypothesis, social background of cultural omnivorousness and hypothesis of homology bolstering after 1989. Most of six pursued lifestyle spheres is structured by education and income, partly also hierarchically tied to household social class (ABCDE scheme). Other factors have also effect: gender, age, living in a big city. Boundary of cultural differentiation passes among upper/middle A, B, C and lower D, E classes.