Distinction A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste - Routledge Classics

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.

ISBN:	9780415567886
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Published date:	12 Mar 2010
DEWEY:	305.550944
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	607
Weight:	806g
Height:	214mm
Width:	138mm
Spine width:	30mm

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