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Distinction : a social critique of the judgement of taste

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  • Author: Bourdieu, Pierre
    Contributor: Nice, Richard
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    2011
    Summary:

    In 'Distinction', Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world. Focusing 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.

    Genre:
    Social science
    Subject(s): Aesthetics, French | France | Social classes
    Original Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c1984
    Language(s): English