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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... artistic perception directly con- tradicts the experience of the art - lovers closest to the legitimate defini- tion ; acquisition of legitimate culture by insensible familiarization within the family circle tends to favour an enchanted ...
... artistic field . The aesthetic mode of perception in the ' pure ' form which it has now assumed corresponds to a particular state of the mode of artistic production . An art which , like all Post- Impressionist painting , for example ...
... artistic production and its relationship to the field of the dominant class to un- derstand why avant - garde artistic production is bound to disappoint bourgeois expectations — unequally , and always in the short term.26 It is no ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste | 9 |
Notes | 15 |
Copyright | |
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