omnivores - peterson & kern

Omnivore

A person, typically of high cultural capital,

• who engages with diverse forms of culture, both high and low

• blurring symbolic boundaries.

Snob

Someone who limits themselves to high cultural capital items,

• prefers exclusive and inaccessible cultural products

• believes their tastes are superior.

Univore

Individuals with low cultural capital who consume a limited range of culture

• often sticking to one genre

• are more honest about their consumption.

Rockism valaues

authenticity, artistry/innovation, personal expression, anti-corporate and masculinity

Poptimism values

Embraces accessibility, openness, fun, inclusivity, and diversity

what does omnivourness show

meaning of high status changes, not just the nouns and verbs that are associated with high status

poptism crituqies

reactionary, promoting celebrity worship, insincere, and lacking innovation.

rockism critques

critiqued for being snobbish, elitist, and exclusionary, nostalgic, seriousness

what does the differnce in rockism and poptism show

the dominant way we express status has changed

what is ominovurness a form of

dstinction, being culturally open is a habitus and distinction

• current version of snobbery ( implicit)

reasons why we see a shfit from snob to omnviore

1. Structural change

2. Value change

3. Art world change-

4. Status group politics

5. Generational politics

structural change and omnvivorness

increased education, globalization - elite tastes more accesiable

change in values and omnivorness

with global migration and social class mobility
- historical trend toward greater tolerance of holding difference values

art world change and omnviorness

more investment in experimentation and multiculturalism

status group politics

elites become more diverse ( racial and ethnic diversity), elites structurally changing

generational politics

no cohort replacement ( snobby tastes not replaced

• young people bring in their tastes and turn them into high-brow tastes as they age

according to Peterson and kern, Why is there more omnivorousness?

• due to cohort replacement and changes among highbrows of all ages

according to Peterson and kern, What is ominvorness replacing?

• REPLACING SNOBINESS AMONG HIGH BROWS

Findings about high brow tastes in relation to music

according to peterson and kern

• Both cohort replacement and period effects increase highbrows taste fro lowbrow music

• while only period effects increase their taste for middle brow