A Cultural Map of the United Kingdom, 2003 Modesto Gayo-Cal, Mike Savage & Alan Warde This paper employs Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) to map cultural partici- pation and taste in the UK. It constructs what Bourdieu calls a space of lifestyles from evidence collected in a national random sample survey of the British population in 2003. MCA constructs the space relationally on the basis of similarities and differences in responses to questions about a large number of cultural items in several sub-fields including music, reading, TV and recreational activity. These items are mapped along two axes and their clustering indicates affinities between tastes and practices across sub-fields. The cultural patterns are described. We then superimpose socio-demographic variables, including class, educational qualifications and age, the distribution of which indicates tendencies for certain categories of person to have shared tastes. The analysis reveals meaningful, socially differentiated patterns of taste. The space of lifestyles proves to be structured primarily by the total volume of capital (resources) held by respon- dents and by age. Strong oppositions are revealed. An older, educated middle class shares ‘legitimate’ established cultural preferences. The repertoire of a younger middle class group contains more contemporary and ‘popular’ items. Less well-educated, working class groups are characterised often primarily by lack of cultural participation, but also, especially among the young, by an aversion to ‘legitimate’ culture. Keywords: Bourdieu, Cultural capital, Multiple correspondence analysis, Space of lifestyles Introduction Other articles in this special issue have shown how individual cultural fields are diff- erentiated in various ways, and that we need to be careful in applying simple ideas about how ‘popular’ can be distinguished from ‘high’ culture, and so forth. In this article we consider how far we can detect similarities across the cultural fields, so that we can assess whether lifestyles are organized in systematic ways. It is a central claim of Bourdieu (1984) that there are ‘homologies’ between cultural taste and participation Cultural Trends Vol. 15, No. 2/3, June/September 2006, pp. 213–237 Correspondence to: Mike Savage, CRESC, The University of Manchester, 178 Waterloo Place, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. Email: Modesto.gayo-cal@manchester.ac.uk ISSN 0954-8963 (print)/ISSN 1469-3690 (online) # 2006 Taylor & Francis DOI: 10.1080/09548960600713122