ABSTRACT
Many recent thinkers have linked cultural production to the notion of a field, but by far the most rigorous and systematic of these is the late Pierre Bourdieu. His massive book Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste2 is a work which attempts to connect – both empirically and theoretically – the notion of standards of taste with specific class positions. This Marxist orientation also informs Bourdieu’s more recent writing and, in particular, his influential book The Field of Cultural Production.3 It is in this work that the field/cultural production linkage receives its most persuasive presentation.
