1) In Distinction, Pierre Bourdieu argued, “Like every sort of taste, [consumer taste] unites and separates. Being the product of conditionings associated with a particular class of conditions of existence, it unites all those who are the product of similar conditions while distinguishing them from all others.”

Craft an argument evaluating Bourdieu’s statement in the context of our course readings. Did consumer culture serve to unite or separate individuals and groups in early and antebellum America