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 system , one cannot impute the strong correla- tion , observed between competence in music or painting ( and the practice it presupposes and makes possible ) and academic capital , solely to the operation of the educational ...
... education institutions are organized in accordance with two opposing principles of hierarchy . The hierarchy dominant within the educational system , i.e. , the one which ranks institutions by specifically aca- demic criteria , and ...
... 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 ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste | 9 |
Notes | 15 |
Copyright | |
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