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The sociology of culture focused on the role that culture plays in the consolidation of the hierarchical structure of social strata in a given society. To answer the question why social stratification is maintained through cultural distinction, Bourdieu and his colleagues tried to make visible the...

The sociology of culture focused on the role that culture plays in the consolidation of the hierarchical structure of social strata in a given society. To answer the question why social stratification is maintained through cultural distinction, Bourdieu and his colleagues tried to make visible the mechanism through which the cultural preference that distinguishes one social group from others, is reproduced. With regard to cultural capital in the digital age, this study deals with the question, whether the use of internet attenuates the uneven distribution of cultural capital. This question is related with the debate about the ‘democratization of culture’ and/or ‘cultural democracy.’ On the one hand, democratization means the gratuitous offer of culture, that is, the culture-friendly environment in which budget constraints converge to zero and neither social nor physical barriers exist for all people to fully enjoy culture. On the other hand, it means the challenge of the ‘small’ culture to the hegemony of ‘the established’ or ‘the legitimized.’ With the advent of the digital age, most digital optimists have foreseen the democratization of culture based on the conversion of cultural products into digitized contents. This paper tries to determine whether the Internet contributes to the development of the democratization of culture as the optimists suggest; or on the contrary, whether it leads to the fractioning of social groups according to taste Data analysis using Korean General Social Survey(KGSS) shows that the embodied cultural capital online broadly influences cultural activities online, and it seems to be premature to conclude that the Internet may solve the problem of cultural inequality.

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