Maya Borrizee

I am a PhD researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). I hold a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences and a master’s degree in Communication Studies, and I previously contributed as an intern to the FWO-SBO research project Primary Prejudice. My research interests lie in cultural sociology, with a particular focus on the transmission and acquisition of taste. My doctoral project examines how children ‘acquire’ fashion taste in relation to one of their key agents of socialisation: their parents. Ultimately, it asks: if the shoe fits the parents’ class, does the child wear it?