Distinction : A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
法國的社會學家關注法國資產階級，品味和偏好。區別既是當代法國的廣大民族志，又是對資產階級思想的剖析。在日常生活中，人們會不斷選擇他們覺得美觀和他們認為俗氣，時髦或醜陋的東西。
Bourdicu的調查基於他的研究，該調查考慮了眾多社會因素，這些因素參與了法國人選擇服裝、家具、休閒活動，為客人準備的晚餐菜單以及許多其他口味。從他的分析中得出的結論是，社會勢力在資產階級世界無處不在。人們做出的不同美學選擇是所有的區別 - 也就是選擇與其他階級做出的相反選擇。
布迪厄在決定奉上法式蛋黃醬湯的決定中發現了一個社會意義的世界，在我們當代的瘦身之中，在諸如慢跑和越野滑雪等“加利福尼亞體育”中。他認為，社會世界同時起著權力關係體系的作用，並且是作為社會評判基礎的微小差別區分的象徵體系。
布迪厄的書是一個引人入勝的話題：社交預言的策略總是引人入勝，但這本書更令人著迷。這是當前對文化理論爭論的一個重大貢獻，也是對當代社會學主要理論流派的挑戰。No judgement of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the modern world.
France's leading sociologist focusses here on the French bourgeoisie, its tastes and preferences. Distinction is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind. In the course of everyday life people constantly choose between what they find aesthetically pleasing and what they consider tacky, merely trendy, or ugly.
Bourdicu bases his study on surveys that took into account the multitude of social factors that play a part in a Frenchperson's choice of clothing, furniture, leisure activities, dinner menus for guests, and many other matters of taste. What emerges from his analysis is that social snobbery is everywhere in the bourgeois world. The different aesthetic choices people make are all distinctions-that is, choices made in opposition to those made by other classes.
Taste is not pure. Bourdieu finds a world of social meaning in the decision to order bouillabaisse, in our contemporary cult of thinness, in the "California sports" such as jogging and cross-country skiing. The social world, he argues, functions simultaneously as a system of power relations and as a symbolic system in which minute distinctions of taste become the basis for social judgement.
The topic of Bourdieu's book is a fascinating one: the strategies of social pretension are always curiously engaging. But the book is more than fascinating. It is a major contribution to current debates on the theory of culture and a challenge to the major theoretical schools in contemporary sociology.
Pierre Bourdieu (Autor)
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 978-0674212770
原價 US；40.5 台幣價 NT$:1275
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