Distinction : a social critique of the judgement of taste / Pierre Bourdieu ; translated by Richard Nice.

Translation of: La distinction : critique sociale du jugement.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface to the English-Language Edition -- Introduction -- Part I. A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste -- 1. The Aristocracy of Culture -- The Titles of Cultural Nobility -- Cultural Pedigree -- Part II. The Economy of Practices -- 2. The Social Space and Its Transformations -- Class Condition and Social Conditioning -- A Three-Dimensional Space -- Reconversion Strategies -- 3. The Habitus and the Space of Life-Styles -- The Homology between the Spaces -- The Universes of Stylistic Possibles -- 4. The Dynamics of the Fields -- The Correspondence between Goods Production and Taste Production -- Symbolic Struggles -- Part III. Class Tastes and Life-Styles -- 5. The Sense of Distinction -- The Modes of Appropriation of the Work of Art -- The Variants of the Dominant Taste -- The Mark of Time -- Temporal and Spiritual Powers -- 6. Cultural Goodwill -- Knowledge and Recognition -- Education and the Autodidact -- Slope and Thrust -- The Variants of Petit-Bourgeois Taste -- The Declining Petite Bourgeoisie -- The Executant Petite Bourgeoisie -- The New Petite Bourgeoisie -- From Duty to the Fun Ethic -- 7. The Choice of the Necessary -- The Taste for Necessity and the Principle of Conformity -- The Effects of Domination -- 8. Culture and Politics -- Selective Democracy -- Status and Competence -- The Right to Speak -- Personal Opinion -- The Modes of Production of Opinion -- Dispossession and Misappropriation -- Moral Order and Political Order -- Class Habitus and Political Opinions -- Supply and Demand -- The Political Space -- The Specific Effect of Trajectory -- Political Language -- Conclusion: Classes and Classifications -- Embodied Social Structures -- Knowledge without Concepts -- Advantageous Attributions -- The Classification Struggle -- The Reality of Representation and the Representation of Reality -- Postscript: Towards a 'Vulgar' Critique of 'Pure' Critiques -- Disgust at the 'Facile' -- The 'Taste of Reflection' and the 'Taste of Sense' -- A Denied Social Relationship -- Parerga and Paralipomena -- The Pleasure of the Text -- Appendices -- 1. Some Reflections on the Method -- 2. Complementary Sources -- 3. Statistical Data -- 4. Associations: A Parlour Game -- Notes -- Credits -- Index -- Tables -- 1. Class preferences for singers and music -- 2. Aesthetic disposition, by education capital -- 3. Aesthetic disposition, by class and education -- 4. Knowledge of composers and musical works, by education and class of origin -- 5. Furniture purchases in the dominant class, by education and social origin -- 6. Some indicators of economic capital in different fractions of the dominant class, 1966 -- 7. Some indicators of cultural practice in different fractions of the dominant class, 1966 -- 8. Types of books preferred by different fractions of the dominant class, 1966 -- 9. Social origin of members of the dominant class, by class fraction, 1970 -- 10. Rate of employment of women aged 25-34, by education, 1962 and 1968 -- 11. Changes in morphology and asset structure of the class fractions, 1954-1975 -- 12. Changes in morphology and asset structure of the class fractions, 1954-1968 -- 13. Morphological changes within the dominant class, 1954-1975 -- 14. Morphological changes within the middle class, 1954-1975 -- 15. Changes in class morphology and use of educational system, 1954-1968 -- 16. Annual household expenditures on food: skilled manual workers, foremen and clerical workers, 1972 -- 17. Yearly spending by teachers, professionals and industrial and commercial employers, 1972.

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