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The Association of Social Class and Lifestyles

Ivaylo Petev

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Despite the burgeoning research on lifestyles, we have surprisingly little evidence to answer one of the literature’s founding questions: Is the association between social class and lifestyles disappearing? I explore this inquiry with data from the past four decades. In analyzing the class-lifestyle association, I examine changes in the variability of lifestyles within and between social classes. Using data from the General Social Survey on informal social ties and formal membership ties to voluntary associations, I derive proxies for lifestyles and examine their relation to social class with latent class models. Results show that social classes’ contemporary sociability patterns are substantively similar to traditional descriptions from empirical studies on analogous data from as early as the mid-twentieth century. The association between social classes and sociability patterns shows no sign of having weakened over the past four decades. In fact, recent trends of civic disengagement and social isolation in contemporary U.S. society, which these data corroborate, reinforce class differences in sociability.

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Sociologie
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hal-04379136 , version 1 (08-01-2024)

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Ivaylo Petev. The Association of Social Class and Lifestyles. American Sociological Review, 2013, 78 (4), pp.633-661. ⟨10.1177/0003122413491963⟩. ⟨hal-04379136⟩
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