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  Distinction (Routledge Classics) (Paperback) By (author) Pierre Bourdieu, Translated by Richard Nice

  

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  Short Description for DistinctionIlluminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. This book 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.
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  • Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
  • Published: 23 April 2010
  • Format: Paperback 640 pages
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  • Categories: Social Classes | Sociology | Social & Cultural Anthropology | Philosophy: Aesthetics | Social & Political Philosophy
  • ISBN 13: 9780415567886 ISBN 10: 0415567882
  • Sales rank: 11,927

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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.