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In this paper we test the notion fundamental to Bourdieu's theories on distinction that people use cultural preferences to identify similar others to establish social ties with, and to avoid people with dissimilar tastes. We study social network formation among adolescents using a set of data on 1409 secondary school students (age 14-17) in the Netherlands (Ganzeboom et al. 2005-2006). In this data set students named their best friends in their classroom and were also asked to report on their cultural preferences, highbrow and popular, both their own and those of their parents. The results indicate that students are more likely to choose each other as friends when they have similar tastes in culture. Both highbrow and popular culture turn out to affect the formation of ties among adolescents and the two are about equally important. The effect of similarity in cultural taste is partly due to similarity in parents' education and parents' cultural participation, but adolescents' own similarity in highbrow and popular culture lead to friendship formation as well. A remarkable finding is that on top of adolescents' own cultural tastes, similarity in parents' education and culture increase the likelihood of social ties among adolescents.
- 出版日期2011
