Distinction : a social critique of the judgement of taste
(1984)
Author: Pierre Bourdieu
Publisher: Routledge
Language: en
ISBN: 9780415567886
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.