![]() Bourdieu finds a world of social meaning in the decision to order bouillabaisse, in our contemporary cult of thinness, in the “California sports” such as jogging and cross-country skiing. ![]() ![]() The different aesthetic choices people make are all distinctions―that is, choices made in opposition to those made by other classes. What emerges from his analysis is that social snobbery is everywhere in the bourgeois world. Bourdieu bases his study on surveys that took into account the multitude of social factors that play a part in a French person’s choice of clothing, furniture, leisure activities, dinner menus for guests, and many other matters of taste. In the course of everyday life people constantly choose between what they find aesthetically pleasing and what they consider tacky, merely trendy, or ugly. ![]() ![]() 1984, translated by Richard Nice, published by Harvard University Press, 1984. View all Distinction: A social critique of the judgement of taste. After outlining Bourdieus theoretical and analytical background, I will discuss the major arguments and terminology of his groundbreaking 1979 work. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the modern. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, (1984). A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste. ![]()
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