Bourdieu, Pierre <br/><br/>
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. .
<br/><br/>Part 1: A social critique of the judgement of taste. The aristocracy of culture --<br/>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 --<br/>Part 3: Class tastes and life-styles. The sense of distinction ; Cultural goodwill ; The choice of the necessary ; Culture and politics --<br/>Conclusion: Classes and classifications. 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415567886 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Aesthetics, French<br/> Middle class -- France.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.0944  / BOU-D