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100			_aBourdieu, Pierre _917060
245			_aDistinction: _ba social critique of the judgement of taste
260			_bRoutledge _aOxan _c2019
300			_axxx, 607 p.
365			_aINR _b995.00
520			_aNo 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. (https://www.routledge.com/Distinction-A-Social-Critique-of-the-Judgement-of-Taste/Bourdieu/p/book/9780415567886)
650			_a Social groups _98386
650			_aCulture _92760
650			_aMiddle class _917078
650			_a Judgment (Aesthetics, French) _917090
650			_aFrance -- Civilization -- 1945 _917080
700			_aNice, Richard [Translator] _917086
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