Symbolic Violence and the Social Space: Self-imposing the Mark of Disgrace?

A great amount of effort has gone into studying correspondences between contemporary class structures and the distribution lifestyles media practices therein. Structural overlaps these spaces imply existence a symbolic order, where dominant factions society constitute taste keepers endowed with power to stigmatize those below them in social hierarchy. Yet, research not come terms reach depth this order. This study combines Bourdieusian approach recent developments stigma notion felt stigma. Using multiple correspondence analysis on survey adult Swedish population (n = 2003) findings align previous that space is built around capital volume composition, connect structure. order not, however, internalized by people at lower positions. Instead, it invested culture arts – cultural middle-class who are most likely anticipate others would look down their preferences.