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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... cial system and an educational system that have fobbed them off with worthless paper , can find no other way of restoring their personal and so- cial integrity than by a total refusal . It is as if they felt that what is at stake is no ...
... cial identities which left little room for social fantasy but were comfortable and reassuring even in the ... cially , produces a discourse which states little more than the site it comes from , because it sweeps aside what is essential ...
... cially about women , the object of a tyrannical jealousy which is the effect of insecurity ; on the other , not only the ostentation , big spending and generosity which are some of the conditions for the reproduction of so- cial capital ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste | 9 |
Notes | 15 |
Copyright | |
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