The effect of class, social and cultural capitals on artistic tastes (Case study: Shiraz,)

Taste is one of the main signs and elements of social identity that has been considered by many sociologists like Pierre Bourdieu as the most important one. Bourdieu is a sociologist who, inspired by Weber's French tradition of studies of stratification and pluralism, cites taste as an acquired mode of social distinction. Bourdieu saw differences in lifestyle and, consequently, differences in aesthetic tastes as manifestations of social class differences. Bourdieu saw differences in lifestyle and, consequently, differences in aesthetic tastes as manifestations of social class differences. He argued that culture always gets involved with social class, which reproduced class domination, and called class domination through cultural imposition a symbolic form of violence. The present article is a survey of the influence of class and cultural and social capital on artistic tastes based on Pierre Bourdieu approach. In the present study, which was conducted among the citizens of Shiraz in 1398, at first, using the available resources, the necessary criteria for compiling the questionnaire were explained and 363 questionnaires were distributed among the citizens of Shiraz, in which the most important findings can be summarized as follows: the effect of class on literary and musical taste, the effect of cultural capital on literary and cinematic taste, the effect of individual education on literary, musical and cinematic taste and finally the effect of field of study on literary, musical and cinematic tastes.