|
|
Product 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.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Routledge Classics)
- Language and Symbolic Power
- Selections from the Prison Notebooks
- Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
- The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
- The Logic of Practice
- The Field of Cultural Production
- The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
- Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
- An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology
*If this is not the "Distinction (Routledge Classics)" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link
.
Details were last updated on Dec 21, 2024 02:33 +08.
