ABSTRACT
The multidimensionality is, however, something which has often been fudged in recent research on class lifestyles in the UK, even among those purporting to test or update Bourdieu's proposition that there is a patent homology between the social space and the symbolic space. This chapter utilizes CCSE data to build a revised map of the space of lifestyles in twenty-first-century Britain and map the degree of homology with the social space. To build a model of the symbolic space one must conduct a fresh MCA using selected variables. An avenue for padding out the structure of the British symbolic space and its homology with the social space is through close examination of tastes for a selection of cultural products and producers. The chapter considers a couple of cultural practices which have increased in significance since the research on which Distinction was based was carried out. One of these is 'body modification', i.e. piercings, tattoos and tanning oneself on a sunbed.
