Classes share tastes without acting as coordinated groups

Evidence

Members of each class adhere to similar conventions and oppose rivals’ alternatives. That doesn’t mean, however, that classes work as coordinated advocacy groups. Max Weber warns, “A class itself is not a community.” Individual members of classes pursue the same goals for themselves, not necessarily for the group. Taste arises within a class because individuals with the same status assets agree on shared values that emphasize the importance of those assets. — W. David Marx, Status and Culture, 313

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Class-identical status assets produce shared signaling strategies that become taste worlds — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 310; Mingling across classes in shared pursuits dissolves prejudice between groups — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 51; Spontaneity marks subaltern classes that lack class-for-itself consciousness — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 803 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Spontaneity marks subaltern classes that lack class-for-itself consciousness #corroborates (0.82) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 803
• Social class fuses both serial and group structures simultaneously #expands (0.81) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 558
• Smallholders form a class through mere numerical aggregation, not collective organization #expands (0.80)
• Fashion is abandoned by a class once it diffuses to other classes #qualifies (0.79) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 618
• Taste manifests only through social activity filtered by status value #qualifies (0.78) — W. David Marx, Status and Culture, 245
• Parties are not passive expressions of classes but act back upon them #complicates (0.76) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 871
• Mingling across classes in shared pursuits dissolves prejudice between groups #complicates (0.75) — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 51
• Workers define class by shared conversational and consumption resources, not formal rank #expands (0.74) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2239
• Classroom excitement arises from collective recognition, not professorial charisma #exemplifies (0.73) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 25
• Social cohesion rests partly on libidinal ties between classes #qualifies (0.72)