Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

Contents......Page 6
Tables......Page 8
Table 1 Class preferences for singers and music......Page 32
Table 2 Aesthetic disposition, by educational capital......Page 53
Table 3 Aesthetic disposition, by class and education......Page 54
Table 4 Knowledge of composers and musical works by education and class of origin......Page 81
Table 5 Furniture purchases in the dominant class, by education and social origin......Page 95
Table 6 Some indicators of economic capital in different fractions of the dominant class, 1966......Page 134
Table 7 Some indicators of cultural practice in different fractions of the dominant class, 1966......Page 135
Table 8 Types of books preferred by different fractions of the dominant class......Page 136
Table 9 Social origin of members of the dominant class, by class fraction......Page 138
Figures......Page 9
Table 10 Rate of employment of women aged 25-34, by education, 1962 and 1968......Page 151
Table 11 Changes in morphology and asset structure of the class fractions, 1954-1975......Page 153
Table 12 Changes in morphology and asset structure of the class fractions, 1954-1968......Page 155
Table 14 Morphological changes within the middle class, 1954-1975......Page 157
Table 15 Changes in class morphology and use of educational system, 1954-1968......Page 175
Table 16 Annual household expenditures on food: skilled manual workers, foremen and clerical workers, 1972......Page 198
Table 17 Yearly spending by teachers, professionals and industrial and commercial employers,
1972......Page 201
Table 18 Annual household expenditures on food: fractions of the dominant class, 1972......Page 205
Table 19 Variations in entertaining, by class fraction 1978......Page 215
Table 20 Variations in value placed by Frenchwomen on body, beauty and beauty care, 1976......Page 220
Table 21 Class variations in sports activities and opinions on sport, 1975......Page 233
Table 22 Class-fraction variations in moral attitudes......Page 329
Table 23 Opinions on literary prizes, by class fraction 1969......Page 337
Table 24 Chances of entering the dominant class, and fertility rates, by class fraction,
1970-71......Page 349
Table 25 Knowledge and preferences of established and new petite bourgeoisie, in Paris and in the provinces......Page 381
Table 26 Awareness of social factors in educational and social success, by class fraction 1971......Page 405
Table 27 Views on ways of reducing inequality, by class fraction 1970......Page 406
Table 28 'Don't know' responses to political questions, by sex 1971......Page 420
Table 29 'Don't know' responses to questions on teaching, by educational level 1970......Page 421
Table 30 The imposition effect: responses to question on the business world and politics, by class fraction 1971......Page 446
Table 31 The imposition effect: responses to question on the new socialism, by sex, class fraction and party 1971......Page 447
Table 32 Views on political order and moral order, by class fraction 1959-1972......Page 453
Table 34 Newspaper reading by men, by age, 1975......Page 462
Table 35 Newspaper reading by men and women, by class fraction, 1975......Page 463
Table 36 Percentage of each class fraction reading each daily and weekly paper......Page 465
Figure 1 Distribution of preferences for three musical works by class fraction......Page 34
Figure 2 The aesthetic disposition in the petite bourgeoisie......Page 76
Figure 3 The relationship between inherited cultural capital and
educational capital......Page 98
Figure 4 Specific competence and talk about art......Page 107
Figure 5 The space of social positions......Page 145
Figure 6 The space of life-styles......Page 0
Figure 7 Displacement of schooling rates of 16- to 18-year-olds, 1954-1975......Page 176
Figure 8 Conditions of existence, habitus and life-style.......Page 188
Figure 9 The food space......Page 203
Figure 10 Ideal homes......Page 265
Figure 12 Variants of the dominant taste: the space of individuals......Page 279
Figure 13 Variants of the dominant taste. Analysis of correspondences: simplified plane
diagram of 1st and 3rd axes of inertia......Page 283
Figure 14 Films seen......Page 288
Figure 16 Variants of petit-bourgeois taste: the space of individuals......Page 357
Figure 17 Variants of petit-bourgeois taste. Analysis of correspondences: simplified
plane diagram of 1st and 3rd axes of inertia......Page 360
Figure 18 Films seen......Page 378
Figure 19 Permissiveness and political preference......Page 440
Figure 20 Opinions on foreign policy and political preference......Page 444
Figure 21 The political space......Page 469
Preface to tbe English
Language
Edition......Page 12
Introduction......Page 18
PART
I. A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste......Page 26
1.
The Aristocracy
of Culture......Page 28
The Titles of Cultural Nobility......Page 35
Cultural Pedigree......Page 80
PART
II. The Economy of Practices......Page 114
2.
The Social Space and
Its Transformations......Page 116
Class Condition and Social Conditioning......Page 118
A Three-Dimensional Space......Page 131
Reconversion Strategies......Page 142
3.
The Habitus and the
Space of Life-Styles......Page 186
The Homology between the Spaces......Page 192
The Universes of Stylistic Possibles......Page 225
4.
The Dynamics
of the Fields......Page 243
The Correspondence between Goods Production
and Taste Production......Page 247
Symbolic Struggles......Page 261
PART III.
Class Tastes and
Life-Styes......Page 274
5.
The Sense of Distinction......Page 277
The Modes of Appropriation
of the Work of Art......Page 284
The Variants of the Dominant Taste......Page 300
The Mark of Time......Page 312
Temporal and Spiritual Powers......Page 332
6.
Cultural Goodwill......Page 335
Knowledge and Recognition......Page 336
Education and the Autodidact......Page 345
Slope and Thrust......Page 348
The Variants of Petit-Bourgeois Taste......Page 356
The Declining Petite Bourgeoisie......Page 363
The Executant Petite Bourgeoisie......Page 368
The New Petite Bourgeoisie......Page 371
From Duty to the Fun Ethic......Page 382
7.
The Choice of the
Necessary......Page 389
The Taste for Necessity and the
Principle of Conformity......Page 391
The Effects of Domination......Page 403
8.
Culture and Politics......Page 414
Selective Democracy......Page 416
Status and Competence......Page 422
The Right to Speak......Page 428
Personal Opinion......Page 431
The Modes of Production of Opinion......Page 434
Dispossession and Misappropriation......Page 443
Moral Order and Political Order......Page 449
Class Habitus and Political Opinions......Page 454
Supply and Demand......Page 457
The Political Space......Page 468
The Specific Effect of Trajectory......Page 470
Political Language......Page 476
Conclusion: Classes
and Classifications......Page 483
Embodied Social Structures......Page 484
Knowledge without Concepts......Page 487
Advantageous Attributions......Page 492
The Classification Struggle......Page 496
The Reality of Representation and the
Representation of Reality......Page 499
Postscript: Towards a
'Vulgar' Critique of
'Pure' Crltlques......Page 502
Disgust at the 'Facile'......Page 503
The 'Taste of Reflection' and the 'Taste of Sense'......Page 505
A Denied Social Relationship......Page 508
Parerga and Paralipomena......Page 511
The Pleasure of the Text......Page 515
Appendix 1.
Some Reflections on the Method......Page 520
Appendix 2.
Complementary Sources......Page 536
Appendix 3.
Statistical Data......Page 542
Appendix 4.
Associations: A Parlour Game......Page 563
Preface......Page 578
Introduction......Page 579
1. The Aristocracy of Culture......Page 580
2. The Social Space and Its Transformations......Page 587
3. The Habitus and the Space of Life-Styles......Page 590
4. The Dynamics of the Fields......Page 593
5. The Sense of Distinction......Page 596
6. Cultural Goodwill......Page 600
7. The Choice of the Necessary......Page 604
8. Culture and Politics......Page 607
Conclusion......Page 613
Postscript......Page 614
Appendix 1. Some Reflections on the Method......Page 618
Appendix 4. Associations: A Parlour Game......Page 620
Illustration Credits......Page 622
Index......Page 624