Pierre Bourdieu's distinction: a social critique of the judgment of taste, takes a sociological position on cultural taste and its effect on social class. Bourdieu argues that taste is closely related to social class and indeed serves as a marker of class. He continues to make claims about how people learn culture and how certain culture belongs to certain social classes who have the cultural competence to understand it. By investigating the educational system, Bourdieu was able to draw conclusions about how taste should be understood and its influence on cultural consumption. Since Bourdieu's Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste, was published in 1984 and is based on French culture, it has little real merit on today's popular culture and more specifically on television. To truly understand taste and its effects on our society, Antonio Gramsci's theory of cultural hegemony is probably more effective. Currently, society is filled with a great diversity of types of culture and diversity of who consumes certain culture. Television is no exception as audiences have moved from a rigid class division determining who watches what, to a greater integration of classes who watch television programs. For example, the popular reality television show, Duck Dynasty, attracts the largest audience of any television program today. The show is able to cross social class boundaries to attract viewers from the working class to the upper class. At the same time, the show promotes classical Christian ideals and thus universalizes them. The universalization of certain ideas through negotiation, according to Gramsci, is a fundamental premise of hegemony that is also valid in today's television. Furthermore, Bourdieu's concept of how taste m...... center of paper ......://dtl.unimelb.edu.au/. University of Melbourne, 26 February 2009. Web. 25 November 2013. Gitlin, Todd. “Primetime Ideology: The Hegemonic Process in Television Entertainment.” Social Problems 23.3 (1979): 251-66. JSTOR. Network. November 27, 2013. Lears, T. J. J. “The Concept of Cultural Hegemony: Problems and Possibilities.” The American Historical Review 90.3 (1985): 567-93. JSTOR. Network. 2013.Piano, Giovanni. Cultural theory and popular culture An introduction. 5th ed. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited, 2009. Print.Althusser, Louis. "Ideology and state ideological apparatuses (notes for an investigation)." The Anthropology of the State: A Reader (2006): 86-111. Gurney, Deirdre and Scott Gurney, prod. Duck Dynasty. A&E. Manhattan, New York, March 21, 2012. Television.