Table of Contents

1. Modern Culture as Mass Unity or Ranked Diversity 2. Reification of Consumer Products: A General History Illustrated by the American Automobile 3. Culture as Class Symbolization or Mass Reification? A Critique of Bourdieu’s Distinction 4. Three Ages of the Automobile: The Cultural Logics of the Car 5. Why Modern Architecture Emerged in Europe, Not America: The New Class and the Aesthetics of Technocracy 6. Bourdieu’s Theory of Cultural Change: Explication, Application, Critique 7. Bourdieu and Adorno: Converging Theories of Culture and Inequality

About the Author

David Gartman is Professor of Sociology at the University of South Alabama.