Distinction A social critique of the judgement of taste
Book - 1984
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- Published
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press
1984.
- Language
- English
French - Main Author
- Item Description
- Translation of: La distinction : critique sociale du jugement.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 613 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780674212770
9780674212800
- 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