Distinction

Bourdieu, P. (1984). Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Harvard University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1984

Link

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674212770

Cited from

economics_finance, philosophy, sociology_anthropology

Cited by

5 citations across 5 artifacts.

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Primes

• Cultural Hegemony
  • … the "hidden curriculum" — values and worldviews implicitly taught alongside explicit content (punctuality, deference to authority, competition, linguistic conventions, particular historical narratives as obvious rather than chosen), as developed in Bourdieu's (1984) analysis of cultural capital and class reproduction.

    This sourceClass boundaries organized through consumption and taste; cultural capital and class reproduction.

• Habitus
  • Class habitus through consumption patterns
• Hierarchy
  • Weberian analysis treats hierarchy as a neutral organizational form; critical theory (Bourdieu's social hierarchy, Foucault's examination of power-hierarchies) and
• Preference
  • What varies is which slot fills with what; what is conserved is the four-role relation.
• Symbolic Boundaries
  • Social-class consumption-pattern boundaries

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