From different traditions, research in the field of sociology of cultural taste and consumption has argued that contemporary societies are symbolically stratified through cultural engagement. These theoretical frameworks differ mainly in their explanations of the mechanisms that…
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Contrary to later Muslim tradition, the first Muslims initially looked favorably upon assimilating Jewish and Christian religious and cultural practices. As Muslim collective religious identity conjoined with political power, Muslims changed their religious policy from imitation…
In this dissertation, I argue that mobility, both social and geographical, is a useful way of thinking about social distinction in a context that has been continually produced as unstable. The variability that has been described in terms of instability and unpredictability poses…