{"product_id":"distinction-a-social-critique-of-the-judgement-of-taste-paper-cobe-9780674212770","title":"Distinction  A Social Critique of the Judgement","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDistinction\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind. Bourdieu’s subject is the study of culture, and his objective is most ambitious: to provide an answer to the problems raised by Kant’s \u003ci\u003eCritique of Judgment\u003c\/i\u003e by showing why no judgment of taste is innocent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA book of extraordinary intelligence. -- Irving Louis Horowitz * Commonweal *\u003cbr\u003eOne of the more distinguished contributions to social theory and research in recent years… There is in this book an account of culture, and a methodology of its study, rich in implication for a diversity of fields of social research. The work in some ways redefines the whole scope of cultural studies. -- Anthony Giddens * Partisan Review *\u003cbr\u003eBourdieu’s analysis transcends the usual analysis of conspicuous consumption in two ways: by showing that specific judgments and chokes matter less than an esthetic outlook in general and by showing, moreover, that the acquisition of an esthetic outlook not only advertises upper-class prestige but helps to keep the lower orders in line. In other words, the esthetic world view serves as an instrument of domination. It serves the interests not merely of status but of power. It does this, according to Bourdieu, by emphasizing individuality, rivalry, and ‘distinction’ and by devaluing the well-being of society as a whole. -- Christopher Lasch * Vogue *\u003cbr\u003eA complex, rich, intelligent book. It will provide the historian of the future with priceless materials and it will bring an essential contribution to sociological theory. -- Fernand Braudel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface 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 PetitBourgeois 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 Habirus 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","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138140078423,"sku":"9780674212770","price":37.72,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674212770.jpg?v=1751918156","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/distinction-a-social-critique-of-the-judgement-of-taste-paper-cobe-9780674212770","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}