In most Western societies, the place of leisure and cultural activities has increased considerably since the late 1960s. However, this general development masks deep social inequalities in access to culture. Marked by the rise of the audiovisual sector, the decline in writing and a certain fall in the domestic sphere, the mapping of cultural lifestyle styles is disrupted by the rise of an outbreak of tastes and practices which disrupts the division of symbolic boundaries between social groups, but which does not necessarily mean erasing cultural hierarchies. Does the variety of preferences and practices not become the quintessence of “distinctness”?