Distinction :
Bourdieu, Pierre
Distinction : a social critique of the judgement of taste / Pierre Bourdieu ; translated by Richard Nice, with a new introduction by Tony Bennett. - Oxon: Routledge, 2012. - xxx, 607 p. - Routledge classics. .
Part 1: A social critique of the judgement of taste. The aristocracy of culture --
Part 2: the economy of practices. The social space and its transformations ; The habitus and the space of life-styles ; The dynamics of the fields --
Part 3: Class tastes and life-styles. The sense of distinction ; Cultural goodwill ; The choice of the necessary ; Culture and politics --
Conclusion: Classes and classifications.
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
9780415567886
Aesthetics, French
Middle class -- France.
306.0944 / BOU-D
Distinction : a social critique of the judgement of taste / Pierre Bourdieu ; translated by Richard Nice, with a new introduction by Tony Bennett. - Oxon: Routledge, 2012. - xxx, 607 p. - Routledge classics. .
Part 1: A social critique of the judgement of taste. The aristocracy of culture --
Part 2: the economy of practices. The social space and its transformations ; The habitus and the space of life-styles ; The dynamics of the fields --
Part 3: Class tastes and life-styles. The sense of distinction ; Cultural goodwill ; The choice of the necessary ; Culture and politics --
Conclusion: Classes and classifications.
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
9780415567886
Aesthetics, French
Middle class -- France.
306.0944 / BOU-D