Pierre Bourdieu’s influence on the study of lifestyles in the United States has been profound, yet the vast majority of relevant research operates with methods and assumptions at odds with Bourdieu’s own. His specifically relational or geometric understanding of social structures, and lifestyles, has been overlooked, meaning that no one has yet done for the contemporary United States what Bourdieu did for France, that is, construct a model of the “space of lifestyles” and its homologies. This paper does precisely that, deploying Bourdieu’s own favored technique of multiple correspondence analysis on survey data from 2017 to 2018. It finds a remarkable continuity between 1970s France and the contemporary United States, specifically in the existence of axes relating to economic and cultural capital. The paper also explores the correspondence of sociodemographic factors with the space, and importantly, it unveils associated patterns of symbolic domination.

Pierre Bourdieu 对美国生活方式研究的影响是深远的，但绝大多数相关研究的方法和假设与 Bourdieu 自己的不一致。他对社会结构和生活方式的特殊关系或几何理解被忽视了，这意味着没有人为当代美国做过布迪厄为法国所做的那样，即构建“生活方式空间”的模型及其同源性。本文正是这样做的，对 2017 年至 2018 年的调查数据部署了布迪厄自己喜欢的多重对应分析技术。它发现 1970 年代法国和当代美国之间存在显着的连续性，特别是存在与经济和文化资本相关的轴。