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Bourdieu Pierre - Distinction A Social Critique Of The Judgement Of Taste - Paperback
Bourdieu Pierre - Distinction A Social Critique Of The Judgement Of Taste - Paperback
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Description: 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.
Title: Distinction A Social Critique Of The Judgement Of Taste
Author(s): Bourdieu Pierre
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415567886
Pages: 610 Pages
Publication Date: 3/12/2010
Series: Routledge Classics
Category: Social Classes
Description: 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.
Title: Distinction A Social Critique Of The Judgement Of Taste
Author(s): Bourdieu Pierre
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415567886
Pages: 610 Pages
Publication Date: 3/12/2010
Series: Routledge Classics
Category: Social Classes
