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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

Name: Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
Brand: Routledge
SKU: 9780415567886
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Contributors:

Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Nice (Translator)

Publisher:

Routledge

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science, Philosophy

Book Subcategory:

Anthropology, Sociology, Social

Book Topic:

Cultural & Social

Edition Description:

UK Edition

Series:

Routledge Classics

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Release Date:

3/12/2010

ISBN 13:

9780415567886

Weight:

1.61 lbs

Size:

8.50 x 5.50 x 1.29 inches

Pages:

610

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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.

About the Author

Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) was one of France's leading sociologists. Champion of the anti-globalization movement, his work spanned a broad range of subjects, from ethnography to art, and education to television.

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