Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste is Pierre Bourdieu’s influential sociological study that analyzes how aesthetic preferences and cultural consumption reinforce social class distinctions.
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| Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste canonical | 3 |
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Target entity: Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste Context triple: [Pierre Bourdieu, notableWork, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste]
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Lectures on Aesthetics
Lectures on Aesthetics is a posthumously published collection of G. W. F. Hegel’s university lectures that presents his influential philosophy of art and beauty within his broader idealist system.
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Analytic of the Beautiful
Analytic of the Beautiful is the section of Immanuel Kant’s aesthetic theory that systematically examines judgments of beauty, their subjective universality, and their relation to feeling and cognition.
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A Fable for Critics
A Fable for Critics is a satirical poem by James Russell Lowell that humorously critiques and caricatures his contemporary American authors and the literary scene of his time.
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Essais sur l’art
Essais sur l’art is a collection of critical writings on art by French Post-Impressionist painter and theorist Émile Bernard, reflecting his aesthetic ideas and debates with contemporaries like Gauguin and Cézanne.
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Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
Discourse on the Arts and Sciences is an influential 1750 philosophical essay by Jean-Jacques Rousseau that argues the progress of arts and sciences has corrupted human morality rather than improved it.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste Target entity description: Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste is Pierre Bourdieu’s influential sociological study that analyzes how aesthetic preferences and cultural consumption reinforce social class distinctions.
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A.
Lectures on Aesthetics
Lectures on Aesthetics is a posthumously published collection of G. W. F. Hegel’s university lectures that presents his influential philosophy of art and beauty within his broader idealist system.
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B.
Analytic of the Beautiful
Analytic of the Beautiful is the section of Immanuel Kant’s aesthetic theory that systematically examines judgments of beauty, their subjective universality, and their relation to feeling and cognition.
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C.
A Fable for Critics
A Fable for Critics is a satirical poem by James Russell Lowell that humorously critiques and caricatures his contemporary American authors and the literary scene of his time.
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D.
Essais sur l’art
Essais sur l’art is a collection of critical writings on art by French Post-Impressionist painter and theorist Émile Bernard, reflecting his aesthetic ideas and debates with contemporaries like Gauguin and Cézanne.
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E.
Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
Discourse on the Arts and Sciences is an influential 1750 philosophical essay by Jean-Jacques Rousseau that argues the progress of arts and sciences has corrupted human morality rather than improved it.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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| instanceOf |
book
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sociological work ⓘ |
| arguesThat |
aesthetic preferences reinforce class distinctions
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cultural practices serve as markers of social position ⓘ education plays a key role in the formation of taste ⓘ tastes are socially conditioned ⓘ |
| author | Pierre Bourdieu ⓘ |
| centralConcept |
cultural capital
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field ⓘ habitus ⓘ social capital ⓘ symbolic capital ⓘ symbolic violence ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| examines |
art consumption
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differences between working-class and middle-class tastes ⓘ food preferences ⓘ legitimate culture ⓘ music preferences ⓘ popular culture ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
aesthetic preferences
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cultural consumption ⓘ lifestyle ⓘ |
| influencedField |
cultural sociology
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cultural studies ⓘ education studies ⓘ social theory ⓘ |
| methodology |
qualitative analysis
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quantitative survey ⓘ statistical analysis ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| originalTitle | La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| publisher | Les Éditions de Minuit ⓘ |
| recognizedAs |
classic of sociology
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major work of Pierre Bourdieu ⓘ |
| subject |
aesthetics
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class distinction ⓘ consumption ⓘ cultural capital ⓘ habitus ⓘ social class ⓘ social stratification ⓘ sociology of culture ⓘ taste ⓘ |
| theoreticalFramework |
Marxist sociology
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Weberian sociology ⓘ structuralism ⓘ theory of practice ⓘ |
| timePeriodAnalyzed | 20th-century French society ⓘ |
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