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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... distinction ' as differ- ence made absolute . 52 Objectively and subjectively aesthetic stances adopted in matters like cosmetics , clothing or home decoration are opportunities to experience or assert one's position in social space ...
... distinction would wither away if the field of production of cultural goods , itself governed by the dialectic of pretension and distinction , did not endlessly supply new goods or new ways of using the same goods . The Correspondence ...
... distinction which is a misrecog- nized form of social difference can be read as a universal expression of the ... distinctions worked out in the other Critiques and to express ' the thinking of Immanuel Kant ' in accordance with the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste | 9 |
Notes | 15 |
Copyright | |
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