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Distinction A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
by Bourdieu, Pierre, Nice, Richard
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- Comments: No judgment of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the modern world. Frances leading sociologist focuses here 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.In the course of everyday life people constantly choose between what they find aesthetically pleasing and what they consider tacky, merely...
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- ISBN-13: 9780674212770
- ISBN: 0674212770
- Publication Date: 1987
- Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
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Pierre Bourdieu is Professor of Sociology at the College de France, ParisBourdieu, Pierre is the author of 'Distinction A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste', published 1987 under ISBN 9780674212770 and ISBN 0674212770.
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