DistinctionNo judgment of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the modern world. France’s leading sociologist focuses here on the French bourgeoisie, its tastes and preferences. Distinction is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind. |
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... educational capital who have also inherited strong cultural capital , and so enjoy a dual title to cultural nobility , the self- assurance of legitimate membership and the ease given by familiarity ( point B in figure 3 ) , are opposed ...
Pierre Bourdieu. moves towards the most legitimate areas , the statistical differences related to educational capital become increasingly important , whereas the more one moves towards the least legitimate areas , which might seem to be ...
... educational capital held at a given moment expresses , among other things , the economic and social level of the family of origin . ( This results from a long process which is no way a mechanical relationship , since initial cultural ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste | 9 |
Notes | 15 |
Copyright | |
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