| Summary: | Peterson's and Wuggenig's critical comments refer specifically to our paper 'Social stratification and cultural consumption: the visual arts in England' (Chan and Goldthorpe, 2007c). However, their criticisms could, at least in some of their more general aspects, be take to apply to all of the contributions to the special issue of <em>Poetics</em> in which our paper appeared, and of which we were Guest Editors. We would therefore wish this reply to be in turn understood as having a wider reference than to our paper alone, and we shall in fact have occasion to refer, if only briefly, to the work of several of our colleagues. We consider Peterson's and Wuggenig's commentaries together under the following three headings: data, analytical methods and interpretation, although as regards methods we are chiefly concerned with Wuggenig's position.
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