Does family background link to cultural lifestyles beyond two generations? To address this question, we analyze three-generation data from Denmark with information on cultural consumption in the grandchild generation and information on economic, cultural, and social capital in the parent and grandparent generation. We report three key findings. First, we identify four cultural lifestyles in the grandchild generation (omnivore, middlebrow, popular, and inactive). Second, grandparents’ cultural capital is directly and positively associated with the likelihood that grandchildren exhibit the omnivorous lifestyle. Third, grandparents’ economic, cultural, and social capital also operate indirectly by being positively associated with parents’ cultural capital, which in turn is associated with the likelihood that grandchildren exhibit the omnivorous cultural lifestyle. Our results suggest that family background extends beyond two generations and that ancestors’ cultural capital has dynastic properties.

家庭背景是否与超过两代人的文化生活方式有关？为了解决这个问题，我们分析了丹麦的三代数据，包括孙辈文化消费的信息以及父母和祖父母一代的经济、文化和社会资本信息。我们报告了三个主要发现。首先，我们确定了孙辈的四种文化生活方式（杂食、中庸、流行和不活跃）。其次，祖父母的文化资本与孙子女表现出杂食性生活方式的可能性直接且正相关。第三，祖父母的经济、文化和社会资本也间接运作与父母的文化资本呈正相关，而后者又与孙辈表现出杂食性文化生活方式的可能性相关。我们的研究结果表明，家庭背景超越了两代人，祖先的文化资本具有王朝属性。