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The Growing Integration of Bourgeois and Bohemian Culture

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In this chapter, I start by discussing the growing tendency of the middle class to embrace bohemian culture, and imitate lifestyles launched by bohemian artists. I then discuss two influential works that proclaimed that bohemian culture has become thoroughly integrated with bourgeois culture, David Brooks Bobo’s in Paradise, and Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class, and explain why I decided to draw on the later work rathar than the former.

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    Scott (2006) has asserted that none of which has proven to completely satisfactory.

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    Brint (2001) has estimated that knowledge workers comprise 35% of the US workforce.

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    Gouldner maintained that the new class is intellectually rigid, and possesses a low level of playfulness, imagination, and passion. Most scholarship on those who Gouldner referred to as the new class, however, has maintained that those who Gouldner called the new class tend to be relatively flexible and creative.

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    Brooks initially thought that people would rebel against the Bobo elite, but instead found that people are copying it. He considers himself to be a Bobo, but not as rich as most of the Bobo’s he described within his book.

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Moss, G. (2017). The Growing Integration of Bourgeois and Bohemian Culture. In: Artistic Enclaves in the Post-Industrial City. SpringerBriefs in Sociology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55264-4_5

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