Research on the tastes of higher status groups has long prioritized analysis of aesthetic preferences. However, recent work has brought more attention to the moral dimensions of tastes. In this paper, we investigate the intersection of morality and aesthetics in tastes. Drawing on survey data and focus groups, we investigate how aesthetic and moral concerns operate in the domain of food, and meat specifically. A latent class analysis identifies four orientations to food that differ in their emphasis on aesthetic versus moral concerns. We identify classes that we label pragmatism, aestheticism, moralism, and moral aestheticism . These orientations toward moral and aesthetic concerns in food are associated with economic capital, cultural capital, age, political ideology, race, and gender. Respondents with higher social status are most likely to hold the moral aestheticism orientation, which simultaneously upholds moral and aesthetic concerns. Analysis of focus group data brings the nature of each of these four orientations into sharper focus. Further survey analyses show these four orientations predict high status aesthetic preferences and moral orientations beyond food, and they also predict the holding of symbolic and social boundaries related to moral judgments in food. We argue that research on high status cultural consumption must conceptualize and measure moral consecration alongside aesthetic consecration in order to better understand the social stratification of tastes.

长期以来，对较高地位群体口味的研究一直优先分析审美偏好。然而，最近的工作引起了对品味的道德维度的更多关注。在本文中，我们研究了品味中道德与美学的交集。利用调查数据和焦点小组，我们调查了审美和道德问题在食品领域的运作方式，特别是肉类。潜在类别分析确定了四种食物取向，它们在强调审美和道德问题方面有所不同。我们确定了我们标记为实用主义、唯美主义、道德主义和道德唯美主义的类别。这些对食品道德和审美关注的取向与经济资本、文化资本、年龄、政治意识形态、种族和性别有关。社会地位较高的受访者最有可能持有道德审美取向，同时维护道德和审美关注。焦点小组数据的分析使这四个方向中的每一个的性质更加清晰。进一步的调查分析表明，这四种取向预测了超越食物的高地位审美偏好和道德取向，它们还预测了与食物道德判断相关的符号和社会边界的持有。我们认为，对高地位文化消费的研究必须将道德奉献与审美奉献一起概念化和衡量，以更好地理解品味的社会分层。焦点小组数据的分析使这四个方向中的每一个的性质更加清晰。进一步的调查分析表明，这四种取向预测了超越食物的高地位审美偏好和道德取向，它们还预测了与食物道德判断相关的符号和社会边界的持有。我们认为，对高地位文化消费的研究必须将道德奉献与审美奉献一起概念化和衡量，以更好地理解品味的社会分层。焦点小组数据的分析使这四个方向中的每一个的性质更加清晰。进一步的调查分析表明，这四种取向预测了超越食物的高地位审美偏好和道德取向，它们还预测了与食物道德判断相关的符号和社会边界的持有。我们认为，对高地位文化消费的研究必须将道德奉献与审美奉献一起概念化和衡量，以更好地理解品味的社会分层。