Cultural hierarchies

Adolescents’ music tastes in the streaming era: The case of Belgium

The sociological literature about music considers youth as a crucial period for the development of one’s music tastes and identity. Yet, scarce research has documented the taste profiles of adolescents and their composition in relation to identity …

The myth of trickle-down. How fashions do (not) spread in European fashion magazines, and what this tells us about power and status in the global fashion system

This chapter offers an empirical examination of this common account of how fashion works. Do fashion styles ‘trickle-down’? That is, do we see the diffusion of styles from high-status to lower-status actors within countries, and from central to more …