Distinction : a social critique of the judgement of taste / Pierre Bourdieu ; translated by Richard Nice, with a new introduction by Tony Bennett.

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Bourdieu, Pierre

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Routledge classicsPublication details: Routledge, 2012. Oxon:Description: xxx, 607 pISBN:

9780415567886

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DDC classification:

306.0944 BOU-D

Contents:

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.

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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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

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