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No judgment 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 focuses 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 mind. 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 French person's choice of clothing, furniture, leisure activities, dinner menus for guests, and many other matters of taste. What emerges from his analysis is that social snobbery is everywhere in the bourgeois world. The different aesthetic choices people make are all distinctions--that is, choices made in opposition to those made by other classes. Taste is not pure. 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 social world, he argues, functions simultaneously as a system of power relations and as a symbolic system in which minute distinctions of taste become the basis for social judgment. The topic of Bourdieu's book is a fascinating one: the strategies of social pretension are always curiously engaging. But the book is more than fascinating. It is a major contribution to current debates on the theory of culture and a challenge to the major theoretical schools in contemporary sociology.
Preface to the English-Language Edition p. xi Introduction p. 1 A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste p. 9 The Aristocracy of Culture p. 11 The Titles of Cultural Nobility p. 18 Cultural Pedigree p. 63 The Economy of Practices p. 97 The Social Space and Its Transformations p. 99 Class Condition and Social Conditioning p. 101 A Three-Dimensional Space p. 114 Reconversion Strategies p. 125 The Habitus and the Space of Life-Styles p. 169 The Homology between the Spaces p. 175 The Universes of Stylistic Possibles p. 208 The Dynamics of the Fields p. 226 The Correspondence between Goods Production and Taste Production p. 230 Symbolic Struggles p. 244 Class Tastes and Life-Styles p. 257 The Sense of Distinction p. 260 The Modes of Appropriation of the Work of Art p. 267 The Variants of the Dominant Taste p. 283 The Mark of Time p. 295 Temporal and Spiritual Powers p. 315 Cultural Goodwill p. 318 Knowledge and Recognition p. 319 Education and the Autodidact p. 328 Slope and Thrust p. 331 The Variants of Petit-Bourgeois Taste p. 339 The Declining Petite Bourgeoisie p. 346 The Executant Petite Bourgeoisie p. 351 The New Petite Bourgeoisie p. 354 From Duty to the Fun Ethic p. 365 The Choice of the Necessary p. 372 The Taste for Necessity and the Principle of Conformity p. 374 The Effects of Domination p. 386 Culture and Politics p. 397 Selective Democracy p. 399 Status and Competence p. 405 The Right to Speak p. 411 Personal Opinion p. 414 The Modes of Production of Opinion p. 417 Dispossession and Misappropriation p. 426 Moral Order and Political Order p. 432 Class Habitus and Political Opinions p. 437 Supply and Demand p. 440 The Political Space p. 451 The Specific Effect of Trajectory p. 453 Political Language p. 459 Conclusion: Classes and Classifications p. 466 Embodied Social Structures p. 467 Knowledge without Concepts p. 470 Advantageous Attributions p. 475 The Classification Struggle p. 479 The Reality of Representation and the Representation of Reality p. 482 Postscript: Towards a 'Vulgar' Critique of 'Pure' Critiques p. 485 Disgust at the 'Facile' p. 486 The 'Taste of Reflection' and the 'Taste of Sense' p. 488 A Denied Social Relationship p. 491 Parerga and Paralipomena p. 494 The Pleasure of the Text p. 498 Appendices p. 503 Some Reflections on the Method p. 503 Complementary Sources p. 519 Statistical Data p. 525 Associations: A Parlour Game p. 546 Notes p. 561 Credits p. 605 Index p. 607 Tables Class preferences for singers and music p. 15 Aesthetic disposition, by education capital p. 36 Aesthetic disposition, by class and education p. 37 Knowledge of composers and musical works, by education and class of origin p. 64 Furniture purchases in the dominant class, by education and social origin p. 78 Some indicators of economic capital in different fractions of the dominant class, 1966 p. 117 Some indicators of cultural practice in different fractions of the dominant class, 1966 p. 118 Types of books preferred by different fractions of the dominant class, 1966 p. 119 Social origin of members of the dominant class, by class fraction, 1970 p. 121 Rate of employment of women aged 25-34, by education, 1962 and 1968 p. 134 Changes in morphology and asset structure of the class fractions, 1954-1975 p. 136 Changes in morphology and asset structure of the class fractions, 1954-1968 p. 138 Morphological changes within the dominant class, 1954-1975 p. 140 Morphological changes within the middle class, 1954-1975 p. 140 Changes in class morphology and use of educational system, 1954-1968 p. 158 Annual household expenditures on food: skilled manual workers, foremen and clerical workers, 1972 p. 181 Yearly spending by teachers, professionals and industrial and commercial employers, 1972 p. 184