The distinction of Pierre Bourdieu: a social critique of the judgment of taste, adopts a sociological position on cultural taste and its effects on class social. Bourdieu argues that taste is closely linked to social class and effectively acts as a class marker. It continues to assert how people learn culture and how certain cultures belong to certain social classes who have the cultural competence to understand it. By studying the education 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 based on French culture, it has little real value in today's popular culture and more especially on television. To truly understand taste and its effects on our society, Antonio Gramsci's theory of cultural hegemony is arguably more effective. Currently, society is filled with a great diversity of culture types and a great diversity of consumers of certain cultures. Television is no exception as audiences have moved from a strict division into classes determining who watches what, to a greater integration of classes that watch television shows. For example, the popular reality television show Duck Dynasty attracts the largest audience of any television show today. The show is able to cross social class boundaries to attract viewers from the working class to the upper classes. At the same time, the show promotes classical Christian ideals and therefore universalizes them. The universalization of certain ideas through negotiations, according to Gramsci, is a fundamental premise of hegemony that remains true in today's television. Additionally, Bourdieu's concept of how taste m...... middle of paper ......://dtl.unimelb.edu.au/. University of Melbourne, February 26, 2009. Web. November 25, 2013. Gitlin, Todd. “Prime Time Ideology: The Hegemonic Process in Television Entertainment.” Social Problems 23.3 (1979): 251-66. JSTOR. Internet. November 27, 2013. .Lears, TJJ “The Concept of Cultural Hegemony: Problems and Possibilities.” The American Historical Review 90.3 (1985): 567-93. JSTOR. Internet. November 25, 2013. Floor, John. Cultural Theory and Popular Culture An Introduction. 5th ed. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited, 2009. Print. Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and ideological state apparatuses (notes for 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.