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.
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