caa a22 4500 445886919 CHVBK 20180317145602.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11133-010-9178-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11133-010-9178-5 Sherman Rachel Department of Sociology, The New School, 6 E. 16th St, Room 916, 10003, New York, NY, USA aut The Production of Distinctions: Class, Gender, and Taste Work in the Lifestyle Management Industry [Elektronische Daten] [Rachel Sherman] Drawing on participant observation and interviews, this paper analyzes the paid labor of lifestyle production. In particular, I look at jobs in the lifestyle management industry that involve making consumption-related aesthetic choices with and for clients. This is taste work, and workers are taste brokers, who mediate between clients and markets, between clients and other people, and between clients and their own desires. Taste brokers shape not only clients' consumption decisions but also their class performances and dispositions. I argue that taste brokers also reproduce legitimate social differences in three ways: by fostering distinctions between "good” and "bad” taste; by reinforcing the association between particular tastes and particular class positions; and by casting women as both better at and responsible for making aesthetic decisions. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2010 Class nationallicence Dispositions nationallicence Taste nationallicence Lifestyle management nationallicence Gender nationallicence Qualitative Sociology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 34/1(2011-03-01), 201-219 0162-0436 34:1<201 2011 34 11133 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-010-9178-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-010-9178-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sherman Rachel Department of Sociology, The New School, 6 E. 16th St, Room 916, 10003, New York, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Qualitative Sociology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 34/1(2011-03-01), 201-219 0162-0436 34:1<201 2011 34 11133 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer