Class, status and lifestyle: on omnivores, distinction, and the measurement of social position

Citation

Lambert PS (2019) Class, status and lifestyle: on omnivores, distinction, and the measurement of social position. Commentary on: Chan T. W. 2019 “Understanding cultural omnivores: social and political attitudes” British Journal of Sociology DOI: 10.1111/1467-9221.12613; Flemmen M. P. Jarness V. and Rosenlund L. 2019 “Class and status: on the misconstrual of the conceptual distinction and a neo‐Bourdieusian alternative” British Journal of Sociology DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.12508. The British Journal of Sociology, 70 (3), pp. 887-891. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12652

Abstract
First paragraph: Methods maketh the man? Even within the relatively specialized domain of the multivariate analysis of larger‐scale social survey data on patterns of lifestyle and social inequalities, the papers by Chan and by Flemmen et al. demonstrate work from very different analytical orientations. Is it possible that the differences in their broader descriptive and theoretical conclusions flow to a large degree from their divergent methodological strategies?

Journal
The British Journal of Sociology: Volume 70, Issue 3