Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

Synopsis

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.