Introducing this joint effort to account empirically for taste, Peterson advances the concept “patterns of cultural choice,” and contrasts it with “lifestyle,”“subculture,”“culture class,”“taste culture,” and “status group.” He then introduces the eight research articles, which employ alternative strategies of isolating choice patterns.
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