![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Bourdieu plays the empiricist to Kants disinterested philosopher deducing notions of taste within his own mind, pointing to how a society-dependent concept like aesthetic taste is inextricably tied to the realities of a class-based industrial society and its means of reproducing itself. This perspective is challenged by French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930 2002). ![]() The different aesthetic choices people make are all distinctions―that is, choices made in opposition to those made by other classes. From a commonsense perspective, taste is a purely subjective, private matter. 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. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste Pierre Bourdieu Routledge, Social Science - 640 pages 1 Review Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, (1984). ![]()
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