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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: We link different tastes to different social classes.
Chapter 3: To rigorously study taste, we must include people’s everyday ways of thinking about it.
Chapter 4: Ideas about taste and class actively help create the realities of taste and class.
Chapter 5: Bourdieu proposed a hypothesis that deepens and sharpens our intuitions about taste and class.
Chapter 6: Our views about taste and class are a “misrecognized” kind of practical knowledge.
Chapter 7: Taste and class extend across three dimensions: capital volume, capital mix, and social trajectory.
Chapter 8: Our rank in society reflects our economic and cultural capital, which we can trade for each other.
Chapter 9: People defend and advance their class position by swapping economic and cultural capital.
Chapter 10: People’s tastes line up with where they sit in the three-dimensional class order.
Chapter 11: Links between taste and class become clearer once we factor in social trajectory.
Chapter 12: Pierre Bourdieu’s surveys backed up his theoretical claims.
Chapter 13: Our tastes grow out of and mirror the material realities of our class.
Chapter 14: At bottom, people’s tastes spring from their habitus.
Chapter 15: The rich elite use their tastes to set themselves apart from other groups.
Chapter 16: Taste gives us a tool for drawing class lines.
Description
Distinction (1979) is widely considered one of the most important works of twentieth-century sociology. Drawing on extensive empirical research and developing many new concepts that have had a lasting impact on the social sciences, it puts forward a groundbreaking theory about the relationship between taste and class.
Who Should Listen
- Students of sociology
- Fans of French theory
- Anyone interested in the underpinnings of class or taste