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Distinction : a social critique of the judgement of taste / Pierre Bourdieu ; translated by Richard Nice.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Routledge classicsPublication details: London : Routledge, 2010.Edition: [New ed.] / with a new introduction by Tony BennettDescription: xxx, 607 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780415567886 (pbk.) :
  • 9780415567886 (pbk.) :
Uniform titles:
  • Distinction. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.550944 BOU
LOC classification:
  • HT690
Contents:
Part I.A social critque of the judgement of taste -- 1.The aristocracy of culture; the titles of cultural nobility; cultural pedigree -- Part II.The economy of practices -- 2.The social space and its transformations -- Class condition and social conditioning; a three-dimensional space; Reconversion strategies -- 3.The habitus and the space of life-styles; The homology between the spaces; The universes of stylistic possibles -- 4.The dynamics of fields; The correspondence between goods production and taste production; Symbolic struggles -- Part III.Class tastes and life-styles -- 5.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 -- 6.Cultural goodwill; Knowledge and recognition; Education and the autodidact; Slope and thrust -- The variants of petit-bourgeois taste -- The declining petite-bourgeois taste; The executant petite bourgeoise; The new petite-bourgeoisie; From duty to the fun ethic -- 7.The choice of the necessary -- The taste for necessity and the principle of conformity; The effects of domination -- 9.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 -- Conclusions: Classes and classfications -- Embodied social structures; Knowledge without concepts; Advantageous attributions; The classification struggle; The reality of representation and the representation of reality -- Postscript: Towards a \'vulgar\' critique of \'pure\' critiques; Disgust at the \'facile\'; The \'taste of reflection\' and the \'taste of sense\' -- A denied social relationship; Parerga and paralipomena; The pleasure of the text -- 1.Some reflections on the method -- 2.Complementary sources -- 3.Statistical data -- 4.Associations: A parlour game.
Summary: In 'Distinction', Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world. Focusing on the French bourgeoisie - its tastes and preferences - 'Distinction' is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 305.550944 BOU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 217182

Previous ed. of this translation: London: Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1984.

Translated from the French.

Includes index.

Originally published: Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1984.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I.A social critque of the judgement of taste -- 1.The aristocracy of culture; the titles of cultural nobility; cultural pedigree -- Part II.The economy of practices -- 2.The social space and its transformations -- Class condition and social conditioning; a three-dimensional space; Reconversion strategies -- 3.The habitus and the space of life-styles; The homology between the spaces; The universes of stylistic possibles -- 4.The dynamics of fields; The correspondence between goods production and taste production; Symbolic struggles -- Part III.Class tastes and life-styles -- 5.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 -- 6.Cultural goodwill; Knowledge and recognition; Education and the autodidact; Slope and thrust -- The variants of petit-bourgeois taste -- The declining petite-bourgeois taste; The executant petite bourgeoise; The new petite-bourgeoisie; From duty to the fun ethic -- 7.The choice of the necessary -- The taste for necessity and the principle of conformity; The effects of domination -- 9.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 -- Conclusions: Classes and classfications -- Embodied social structures; Knowledge without concepts; Advantageous attributions; The classification struggle; The reality of representation and the representation of reality -- Postscript: Towards a \'vulgar\' critique of \'pure\' critiques; Disgust at the \'facile\'; The \'taste of reflection\' and the \'taste of sense\' -- A denied social relationship; Parerga and paralipomena; The pleasure of the text -- 1.Some reflections on the method -- 2.Complementary sources -- 3.Statistical data -- 4.Associations: A parlour game.

In 'Distinction', Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world. Focusing on the French bourgeoisie - its tastes and preferences - 'Distinction' is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind.

Translated from the French.

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