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In this paper, we aim to use Bourdieusian concepts to understand the rise of conservative/Islamic taste in the context of Turkey's recent political transformations. To do so, we first focus on the historical roots of the strong connection between politics and consumptionin Turkey by addressing the impacts of recent transformation of political conservatism on conservative taste. Second, we describe the current form of the conservative middlebrow taste as the choice of elegant and religiously proper through the content analysis of three conservative fashion magazines. Lastly, drawing on a field research conducted in Ankara, we present concrete examples of how conservative taste is embodied and used to perform class distinction within and beyond the conservative fractions. ; En este artículo, nuestro objetivo es utilizar los conceptos de Bourdieu para comprender la emergencia de un gusto conservador / islámico en el contexto de las recientes transformaciones políticas de Turquía. Para hacerlo, primero nos centraremos en las raíces históricas del fenómeno, la fuerte conexión entre la política y el consumo en Turquía, con el fin de abordar los impactos de la reciente transformación del conservadurismo político en el gusto conservador. En segundo lugar, describimos la forma actual del gusto conservador convencional como la elección de un estilo elegante y religioso, a través del análisis de contenido de tres revistas de moda conservadoras. Por último, recurriendo a una investigación de campo realizada en Ankara, presentamos ejemplos concretos de cómo se incorpora el gusto conservador y se utiliza para realizar la distinción de clase dentro y más allá de las fracciones conservadoras de la sociedad.

En este artículo, nuestro objetivo es utilizar los conceptos de Bourdieu para comprender la emergencia de un gusto conservador / islámico en el contexto de las recientes transformaciones políticas de Turquía. Para hacerlo, primero nos centraremos en las raíces históricas del fenómeno, la fuerte conexión entre la política y el consumo en Turquía, con el fin de abordar los impactos de la reciente transformación del conservadurismo político en el gusto con-servador. En segundo lugar, describimos la forma actual del gusto conservador conven-cional como la elección de un estilo elegante y religioso, a través del análisis de contenido de tres revistas de moda conservadoras. Por último, recurriendo a una investigación de campo realizada en Ankara, presentamos ejemplos concretos de cómo se incorpora el gusto con-servador y se utiliza para realizar la distinción de clase dentro y más allá de las fracciones conservadoras de la sociedad. = In this paper, we aim to use Bourdieusian concepts to understand the rise of conservative/Islamic taste in the context of Turkey's recent political transformations. To do so, we first focus on the historical roots of the strong connection between politics and consumption in Turkey by addressing the impacts of recent transformation of political conservatism on conservative taste. Second, we describe the current form of the conservative middlebrow taste as the choice of elegant and religiously proper through the content analysis of three conservative fashion magazines. Lastly, drawing on a field research conducted in Ankara, we present concrete examples of how conservative taste is embodied and used to perform class distinction within and beyond the conservative fractions.

Key debates of contemporary cultural sociology – the rise of the 'cultural omnivore', the fate of classical 'highbrow' culture, the popularization, commercialization and globalization of culture – deal with temporal changes. Yet, systematic research about these processes is scarce due to the lack of suitable longitudinal data. This book explores these questions through the lens of a crucial institution of cultural mediation – the culture sections in quality European newspapers – from 1960 to 2010. Starting from the framework of cultural stratification and employing systematic content analysis both quantitative and qualitative of more than 13,000 newspaper articles, Enter Culture, Exit Arts? presents a synthetic yet empirically rich and detailed account of cultural transformation in Europe over the last five decades. It shows how classifications and hierarchies of culture have changed in course of the process towards increased cultural heterogeneity. Furthermore, it conceptualizes the key trends of rising popular culture and declining highbrow arts as two simultaneous processes: the one of legitimization of popular culture and the other of popularization of traditional legitimate culture, both important for the loosening of the boundary between 'highbrow' and 'popular'. Through careful comparative analysis and illustrative snapshots into the specific socio-historical contexts in which the newspapers and their representations of culture are embedded – in Finland, France, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the UK – the book reveals the key patterns and diversity of European variations in the transformation of cultural hierarchies since the 1960s. The book is a collective endeavour of a large-scale international research project active between 2013 and 2018.