Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste - Routledge Classics - Pierre Bourdieu - Books - Taylor & Francis Ltd - 9781138835078 - July 20, 2015
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste - Routledge Classics 1st edition

Pierre Bourdieu

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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste - Routledge Classics 1st edition

No judgement of taste is innocent - we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. First published in 1979, the book is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind.

In the course of everyday life we constantly choose between what we find aesthetically pleasing, and what we consider tacky, merely trendy, or ugly. Taste is not pure. Bourdieu demonstrates that our different aesthetic choices are all distinctions - that is, choices made in opposition to those made by other classes. This fascinating work argues that the social world functions simultaneously as a system of power relations and as a symbolic system in which minute distinctions of taste become the basis for social judgement.


640 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released July 20, 2015
ISBN13 9781138835078
Publishers Taylor & Francis Ltd
Pages 640
Dimensions 223 × 149 × 42 mm   ·   902 g
Language English  
Translator Nice, Richard

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