“Taste” is arguably: a reflection about the accumulation of symbolic goods
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v2i1p252-256Keywords:
culture, social relations, arts.Abstract
In this expansive work, established through questionnaires in the period of 1963-1968, Bourdieu investigates the acquisition of symbolic capital and the implications of taste based on social class. According the thought of Bourdieu, 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 judgment. The different aesthetic choices people make are all distinctions – choices are made in opposition to those made by other classes. So, taste is not pure and no judgment of taste is innocent. Written in 1979, The Distinction is a major contribution to current debates on the theory of culture and a challenge to the major theoretical schools in contemporary sociology.Downloads
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2008-12-15
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Risso, C. de A. (2008). “Taste” is arguably: a reflection about the accumulation of symbolic goods. MATRIZes, 2(1), 252-256. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v2i1p252-256
