Encuentros generacionales y desencuentros de clase social entre jóvenes lectores de literatura en Bogotá

Abstract

This article analyzes the agreements and disagreements between the ways that young high school students in Bogota read literary texts. On the one hand, I examine and qualify Pierre Bourdieu’s approaches to differences in social class, lifestyles and literary consumption practices, and how these differences classify and divide subjects according to their economic and symbolic capitals. On the other hand, based on fieldwork, conversations, and follow up, I highlight the agreements whereby senior high school students in Bogota distance themselves from the structural dynamics of the social class that separates them in the first place. I also underline the way they approach each other by affinities derived from belonging to the same generation, by sharing consumption patterns and by the practice of reading literature.