Culture, class, and critical theory [electronic resource] : between Bourdieu and the Frankfurt school / David Gartman.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-174) and index.

1. Modern culture as mass unity or ranked diversity -- 2. Reification of consumer products : a general history illustrated by the American automobile -- 3. Culture as class symbolization or mass reification? : a critique of Bourdieu's Distinction -- 4. Three ages of the automobile : the cultural logics of the car -- 5. Why modern architecture emerged in Europe, not America : the new class and the aesthetics of technocracy -- 6. Bourdieu's theory of cultural change : explication, application, critique -- 7. Bourdieu and Adorno : converging theories of culture and inequality.

Also available in print edition.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.