La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement
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La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement is Pierre Bourdieu’s influential sociological study analyzing how tastes in culture and consumption reflect and reinforce social class distinctions.
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Target entity: La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement Context triple: [Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, originalTitle, La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement]
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La Condition humaine
La Condition humaine is a 1933 existential and political novel by André Malraux set during the 1927 Chinese revolution, exploring human destiny, commitment, and revolutionary struggle.
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Honi soit qui mal y pense
"Honi soit qui mal y pense" is a medieval French phrase meaning "Shame on him who thinks evil of it," best known as the chivalric motto of England’s Order of the Garter.
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Études philosophiques
Études philosophiques is a section of Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that groups together his more overtly philosophical and metaphysical novels and tales.
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Sens et non-sens
Sens et non-sens is a collection of philosophical essays by Maurice Merleau-Ponty that explores themes of perception, art, politics, and meaning within the framework of existential phenomenology.
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Le Bon Sens
Le Bon Sens is an 18th-century philosophical work by Baron d'Holbach that presents a rigorous materialist and atheist critique of religion and superstition.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Target entity: La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement Target entity description: La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement is Pierre Bourdieu’s influential sociological study analyzing how tastes in culture and consumption reflect and reinforce social class distinctions.
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A.
La Condition humaine
La Condition humaine is a 1933 existential and political novel by André Malraux set during the 1927 Chinese revolution, exploring human destiny, commitment, and revolutionary struggle.
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B.
Honi soit qui mal y pense
"Honi soit qui mal y pense" is a medieval French phrase meaning "Shame on him who thinks evil of it," best known as the chivalric motto of England’s Order of the Garter.
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C.
Études philosophiques
Études philosophiques is a section of Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that groups together his more overtly philosophical and metaphysical novels and tales.
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D.
Sens et non-sens
Sens et non-sens is a collection of philosophical essays by Maurice Merleau-Ponty that explores themes of perception, art, politics, and meaning within the framework of existential phenomenology.
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E.
Le Bon Sens
Le Bon Sens is an 18th-century philosophical work by Baron d'Holbach that presents a rigorous materialist and atheist critique of religion and superstition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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| instanceOf |
book
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non-fiction book ⓘ sociological work ⓘ |
| argues |
aesthetic judgments express class position
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dominant classes impose their tastes as legitimate ⓘ education system reproduces class-based tastes ⓘ taste is socially conditioned ⓘ |
| author | Pierre Bourdieu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| developsConcept |
field
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habitus ⓘ symbolic capital ⓘ symbolic violence ⓘ |
| examines |
how cultural preferences reinforce class structure
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legitimization of dominant culture ⓘ lifestyles of different classes ⓘ relationship between taste and social class ⓘ social stratification ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
1960s France
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1970s France ⓘ French society ⓘ |
| genre |
social theory
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sociology ⓘ |
| hasPart |
analysis of art and museum attendance
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analysis of food preferences ⓘ analysis of music preferences ⓘ analysis of sports and leisure activities ⓘ |
| influenced |
class analysis
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cultural sociology ⓘ cultural studies ⓘ education sociology ⓘ |
| introducesConcept | cultural capital ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
cultural capital
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cultural consumption ⓘ habitus ⓘ social class ⓘ social distinction ⓘ symbolic violence ⓘ taste ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| publisher | Les Éditions de Minuit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedAs |
classic of social theory
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major work of 20th-century sociology ⓘ |
| translatedAs | Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| translatedInto | English ⓘ |
| translationPublisher | Harvard University Press NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
qualitative observation
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quantitative survey data ⓘ statistical analysis ⓘ |
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
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La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement
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