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I'm familiar with cultural omnivore thesis, but it doesn't explain class divergences in other areas. The lower classes in the US today diverge from the upper classes in areas such as divorce, crime, hours worked, obesity, and religiosity far more than they did prior to the 1960s. In their most fundamental life habits and values the two groups increasingly have less in common than ever before.
A quick glance using quancast.com reveals that the channels that I previously identified as being filed with trash (ABC, NBC, CBS) are primarily viewed by those in the lower income quartiles. I would love to see historical data so we can judge how the demographics have changed over time, but I have no idea where I can find such data.
Look, cultural stratification among classes using a low brow, middle brow and high brow model has been decreasing steadily for decades and omnivorous cultural consumption has emerged as the dominant models of cultural elites (i.e. I read girls manga but listen to Béla Tarr movies and so on and so forth). In other words your hunch is entirely false. On the other hand it is true that EVERYONE has diversified their cultural consumption when compared to an hypothetical average man of the street so you have less of a dominant model with a few programs watched by 90%
I'm familiar with cultural omnivore thesis, but it doesn't explain class divergences in other areas. The lower classes in the US today diverge from the upper classes in areas such as divorce, crime, hours worked, obesity, and religiosity far more than they did prior to the 1960s. In their most fundamental life habits and values the two groups increasingly have less in common than ever before.
A quick glance using quancast.com reveals that the channels that I previously identified as being filed with trash (ABC, NBC, CBS) are primarily viewed by those in the lower income quartiles. I would love to see historical data so we can judge how the demographics have changed over time, but I have no idea where I can find such data.