A Social Critique of the Legitimate Taste in Drama Audiences of Tehran By the Perspective of Pierre Bourdieu Field Theory

Increasing in the number of theatre hall in past decade caused many fundamental changes in process of the productions and also consumption of theatre in Tehran. Such many Changes that have affected on various agents, as producer groups and hall holders to audiences. This research, using the theoretical concepts of Bourdieu's sociology tries to explore the causes and meanings of those changes. Manner and condition of interaction among habitus of private theatre audiences and theatre field, distinction of them with other fields’ agents, proportion of cultural capital and economical capital in their capital volume and their trajectory in social space have been analyzed to classify their action and choices. Therefore, based on Pierre Bourdieu's methodological framework and by analyzing the causal and semantic data of the experimental data collected in the theater by qualitative methods (semi-structured interview and observation) and quantitative (composite questionnaire) The differences between tastes of different groups of actors and their areas of application, and the effect of these differences on class relations and lifestyle were studied. The result was that the trajectory of the spectator in the field, and the modes and methods of gaining control over the habitus and capitals of the field, played a key role in shaping the taste of the audience of the theater of the legitimate field, also the taste of the new spectators has imposed its own system of perception and classification on the theater, and has been able to lead to eliminated distinction of the identity of the theatres.