Does your education and class distinction affect your tastes? I believe Bourdieu would say yes, and so would I.

Let's face it folks, I am not the sharpest tool in the shed, and when I read some novels or essays (like these highly interesting oh so amazing literary theory essays...) I need some help understanding them. Once I understand them fully, I can learn to appreciate and like them. I can develope a taste for them. This appreciation of mine I fear was made possible only by my educational background. Yeah that's right, if I had decided not to go to college I would not even have known that Marxist literary theory even existed! (Like I said, I'm not the brightest light bulb in the pack).

I think you have to be exposed to something before you can develop a taste for it, and I think a lot of that exposure comes through education. People who do not have access to higher eductation may not be familiar with the works of Flannery O'Connor let alone appreciate them.