A class’s core asset type shapes its taste in material goods

Evidence

Individuals signal with the assets they have and believe to be the most valuable, and this forms the sensibility behind their tastes. New Money signals through sheer wealth, which turns into an extravagant sensibility based on conspicuous consumption. Old Money signals through quieter codes that emphasize cultural capital. When these classes choose certain material goods that match those tastes, the resulting artifacts and conventions become the culture of that group. — W. David Marx, Status and Culture, 315

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains how economic vs cultural capital produce divergent taste sensibilities.
• XREF: connects to: Class position determines how commodities are perceived and categorized. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 380; Class-identical status assets produce shared signaling strategies that become taste worlds — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 310

Broader Connections

• Class-identical status assets produce shared signaling strategies that become taste worlds #expands (0.88) — W. David Marx, Status and Culture, 310
• Class position determines how commodities are perceived and categorized. #expands (0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 380