《Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste》(英語) 平裝

基本信息

作者：Pierre Bourdieu

出版社: Routledge; 1 (2010年4月23日)

叢書名: Routledge Classics

平裝: 688頁

語種： 英語

ISBN: 0415567882

條形碼: 9780415567886

商品尺寸: 13.8 x 3.7 x 21.6 cm

商品重量: 499 g

ASIN: 0415567882

內容簡介

No 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.

作者簡介

Pierre Bourdieu (1930--2002) was one of France's leading sociologists. Champion of the anti-globalization movement, his work spanned a broad range of subjects, from ethnography to art, and education to television.