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Distinction

A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

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David Turner
@dturneresq · RSA Fellow
"In the course of everyday life people constantly choose between what they find aesthetically pleasing and what they consider tacky, merely trendy, or ugly. Bourdieu bases his study on surveys that took into account the multitude of social factors that play a part in a Frenchperson’s choice of clothing, furniture, leisure activities, dinner menus for guests,… See more
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David Turner
@dturneresq · RSA Fellow
"No judgement 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. France’s leading sociologist focusses 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 mi… See more
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David Turner
@dturneresq · RSA Fellow
Plus it's got cool (and totally incomprehensible charts in it!! 😍😍👌👍