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Distinction : a social critique of the judgment of taste
Distinction. English
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- Creator
- Pierre Bourdieu ; translated by Richard Nice
- Format
- Books
- Languages
- English, French
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [1984]
- ©1984
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 613 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780674212770, 0674212770, 9780674212800, 0674212800
- OCLC
- ocm10323218
- Translation of: La distinction : critique sociale du jugement.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The aristocracy of culture -- The social space and its transformations -- The sense of distinction -- Cultural goodwill -- The choice of the necessary -- Culture and politics -- Conclusion: classes and classifications -- Postscript: towards a 'vulgar' critique of 'pure' critiques -- Appendices: 1. Some reflections on the method -- 2. Complementary sources -- 3. Statistical data -- 4. Associations: a parlour game
- A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste -- The Aristocracy of Culture -- The Titles of Cultural Nobility -- Cultural Pedigree -- The Economy of Practices -- The Social Space and Its Transformations -- Class Condition and Social Conditioning -- A Three-Dimensional Space -- Reconversion Strategies -- The Habitus and the Space of Life-Styles -- The Homology between the Spaces -- The Universes of Stylistic Possibles -- The Dynamics of the Fields -- The Correspondence between Goods Production and Taste Production -- Symbolic Struggles -- Class Tastes and Life-Styles -- The Sense of Distinction -- The Modes of Appropriation of the Work of Art -- The Variants of the Dominant Taste -- The Mark of Time -- Temporal and Spiritual Powers -- Cultural Goodwill -- Knowledge and Recognition -- Education and the Autodidact -- Slope and Thrust -- The Variants of Petit-Bourgeois Taste -- The Declining Petite Bourgeoisie -- The Executant Petite Bourgeoisie -- The New Petite Bourgeoisie -- From Duty to the Fun Ethic -- The Choice of the Necessary -- The Taste for Necessity and the Principle of Conformity -- The Effects of Domination -- Culture and Politics -- Selective Democracy -- Status and Competence -- The Right to Speak -- Personal Opinion -- The Modes of Production of Opinion -- Dispossession and Misappropriation -- Moral Order and Political Order -- Class Habitus and Political Opinions -- Supply and Demand -- The Political Space -- The Specific Effect of Trajectory -- Political Language -- Conclusion: Classes and Classifications