Used - isbn: 0415567882 - isbn13: 9780415567886 Routledge

Used - isbn: 0415567882 - isbn13: 9780415567886

Routledge 2010 first Paperback Good [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ] [ Edition: first ] Publisher: Routledge Pub Date: 4/23/2010 Binding: Paperback Pages: 688.

Paperback / softback. New. Illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. This book argues that the social world functions simultaneously as a system of power relations and as a symbolic system in which minute distinctions of taste become the basis for social judgement. ISBN 0415567882 9780415567886 [GB]

ISBN10: 0415567882, ISBN13: 9780415567886, [publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mär 2010] Softcover Neuware - No judgement of taste is innocent - we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. First published in 1979, the book is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind. In the course of everyday life we constantly choose between what we find aesthetically pleasing, and what we consider tacky, merely trendy, or ugly. Taste is not pure. Bourdieu demonstrates that our different aesthetic choices are all distinctions - that is, choices made in opposition to those made by other classes. This fascinating work argues that the social world functions simultaneously as a system of power relations and as a symbolic system in which minute distinctions of taste become the basis for social judgement.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2010]
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Routledge, Date: 1986-12-13. 1. paperback. Used: Good. 1986. Routledge ISBN 0415567882 9780415567886 [US]

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. This book argues that the social world functions simultaneously as a system of power relatio ISBN 0415567882 9780415567886 [GB]

ISBN10: 0415567882, ISBN13: 9780415567886, [publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mär 2010] Softcover Neuware - No judgement of taste is innocent - we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. First published in 1979, the book is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind. In the course of everyday life we constantly choose between what we find aesthetically pleasing, and what we consider tacky, merely trendy, or ugly. Taste is not pure. Bourdieu demonstrates that our different aesthetic choices are all distinctions - that is, choices made in opposition to those made by other classes. This fascinating work argues that the social world functions simultaneously as a system of power relations and as a symbolic system in which minute distinctions of taste become the basis for social judgement.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2010]
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Routledge, Date: 1986-12-13. 1. paperback. Used:Good. 1986. Routledge ISBN 0415567882 9780415567886 [US]

Routledge 2010 Paperback New 2010. 1st Edition. Paperback. Illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. This book argues that the social world functions simultaneously as a system of power relations and as a symbolic system in which minute distinctions of taste become the basis for social judgement. Translator(s): Nice, Richard. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 640 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 138 x 37. Weight in Grams: 874......We ship daily from our Bookshop.