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between these portrayals. We find that Duck Dynasty highlights the importance of cultural capital in determining social class and purposefully minimizes the economic position of the Robertson family. This process, we show, encourages high cultural capital audience members—many of whom lost financial capital during the recession—security in their position in the social strata. The cultural place of “redneck media” is to show the lower class as having a distinct habitus, through committing symbolic

laboratory. This past spring the Jolita Hylland Benson Chair in Elementary Education was established and fully funded by the Benson Family Foundation, and throughout the year, progress continued on funding fully the Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies. Another key to advancing our quality initiative is to continue to seek funding from non-traditional sources.  Already this year we have secured more than $2 million in federal and state support so that both the safety and quality of living in Hinderlie