Citation

Rosenlund L. Bull. Méthodol. Sociol. 2017; 135(1): 5-31.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Laboratoire d'informatique pour les sciences de l'homme)

DOI

10.1177/0759106317710847

PMID

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Abstract

This article applies the methodology of Pierre Bourdieu's major work, Distinction, to a community in South-Western Norway. It argues that the forces of social differentiation analyzed by Bourdieu operate on the national level and are also manifest on the community level. The two space constructs - the space of social positions and the space of lifestyles - are constructed by a multiple correspondence analysis of data from a survey of lifestyle. The characteristics of these results are then discussed in relation to another analysis, an ecological cluster analysis of demographic divisions within the physical space of the city. The analyses show that the same principles of social differentiation, volume and composition of capital, sway all three universes of class structure, of lifestyles and of physical space in the city.

Language: en