The paper aims to determine how cultural taste and social tolerance coincide and which symbolic boundaries they relate to. The empirical analyses scrutinise three taste orientations – omnivorousness, univorousness and ‘categorical tolerance’ (Lizardo & Skiles 2016) – to answer the following questions using two nationally representative surveys on cultural taste in Finland: (1) How did the cultural taste orientations change between 2007 and 2018 when considering musical like, dislike and ambivalence? (2) How do socio-political attitudes associate with cultural taste orientations and socio-economic factors, and can we observe change in these dynamics between 2007 and 2018? A longitudinal research design is used to explore whether there are changes in taste that tap to symbolic exclusion, inclusion or ambivalence. The results show that the omnivores and the univores are on many accounts situated on the opposite ends of the liberal-conservative axis. Their views deviate from each other, although the polarization in this sense has diminished in a decade. In addition to their wide-ranging taste and advantageous social position, we found the omnivores’ social attitudes to be very liberal, postmaterialist and more tolerant than the average. The absence of ambivalence among the univores suggests very rigid symbolic boundary-drawing by them. The social indistinctiveness of the categorical tolerants was quite visible, and it indeed increased over time. However, the categorical tolerants’ responses, particularly in 2018, were in most part inflated by their inability to neither agree nor disagree with the socio-political statements. Through a systematic analysis of various taste orientations over time, the study contributes to the understanding of cultural taste and symbolic boundaries by way of providing a gauge of the social, political and moral ambience in the society. The findings suggest growing tolerance in general, and decreasing polarization between the extreme taste orientations, omnivorism and univorism. However, the increased symbolic inclusion and ambivalence (of the categorical tolerants especially) are perhaps engendered by the features of modern social (media) reality, whose ubiquitous presence potentially affects how willingly people make judgements, whether social or cultural, and how much of personal values and tastes are communicated publicly in general.

该论文旨在确定文化品味和社会宽容如何重合，以及它们与哪些象征性界限相关。实证分析仔细研究了三种口味取向——杂食性、单食性和“分类耐受性”（Lizardo & Skiles 2016）——通过对芬兰文化品味的两项具有全国代表性的调查来回答以下问题：（1）文化品味取向在2007 年和 2018 年当考虑音乐喜欢、不喜欢和矛盾心理时？(2) 社会政治态度如何与文化品味取向和社会经济因素相关联，我们能否观察到 2007 年至 2018 年间这些动态的变化？纵向研究设计用于探索口味的变化是否与象征性排斥、包容或矛盾心理有关。结果表明，杂食动物和单食动物在许多方面都位于自由保守轴的两端。他们的观点相互偏离，尽管在这种意义上的两极分化在十年内有所减弱。除了他们广泛的品味和优越的社会地位外，我们发现杂食动物的社会态度非常自由、后物质主义，并且比一般人更宽容。单食动物之间不存在矛盾心理表明它们非常严格的象征性边界绘制。分类宽容者的社会模糊性非常明显，而且确实随着时间的推移而增加。然而，绝对宽容者的回应，尤其是在 2018 年，在很大程度上是因为他们既不能同意也不反对社会政治陈述而夸大其词。通过随着时间的推移对各种品味取向进行系统分析，该研究通过提供社会、政治和道德氛围的衡量标准，有助于理解文化品味和象征界限。研究结果表明，总体上的耐受性正在增加，极端口味取向、杂食性和单一性之间的两极分化正在减少。然而，增加的象征性包容和矛盾心理（尤其是分类宽容者）可能是由现代社会（媒体）现实的特征引起的，其无处不在的存在可能会影响人们做出判断的意愿，无论是社会的还是文化的，以及多少个人的价值观和品味通常是公开交流的。该研究通过衡量社会中的社会、政治和道德氛围，有助于理解文化品味和象征界限。研究结果表明，总体上的耐受性正在增加，极端口味取向、杂食性和单一性之间的两极分化正在减少。然而，增加的象征性包容和矛盾心理（尤其是分类宽容者）可能是由现代社会（媒体）现实的特征引起的，其无处不在的存在可能会影响人们做出判断的意愿，无论是社会的还是文化的，以及多少个人的价值观和品味通常是公开交流的。该研究通过衡量社会中的社会、政治和道德氛围，有助于理解文化品味和象征界限。研究结果表明，总体上的耐受性正在增加，极端口味取向、杂食性和单一性之间的两极分化正在减少。然而，增加的象征性包容和矛盾心理（尤其是分类宽容者）可能是由现代社会（媒体）现实的特征引起的，其无处不在的存在可能会影响人们做出判断的意愿，无论是社会的还是文化的，以及多少个人的价值观和品味通常是公开交流的。并减少极端口味取向、杂食主义和单一主义之间的两极分化。然而，增加的象征性包容和矛盾心理（尤其是分类宽容者）可能是由现代社会（媒体）现实的特征引起的，其无处不在的存在可能会影响人们做出判断的意愿，无论是社会的还是文化的，以及多少个人的价值观和品味通常是公开交流的。并减少极端口味取向、杂食主义和单一主义之间的两极分化。然而，增加的象征性包容和矛盾心理（尤其是分类宽容者）可能是由现代社会（媒体）现实的特征引起的，其无处不在的存在可能会影响人们做出判断的意愿，无论是社会的还是文化的，以及多少个人的价值观和品味通常是公开交流的。