Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

基本信息

Format Paperback | 640 pages

Dimensions 156 x 235 x 31.75mm | 844g

Publication date 15 Oct 1987

Publisher HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Publication City/Country Cambridge, Mass, United States

Language English

Edition Statement Reprint

Illustrations note 20 halftones, 13 line illustrations, 55 tables

ISBN10 0674212770

ISBN13 9780674212770

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

書籍簡介

對品味的判斷都是無辜的。一句話，我們都是勢利眼。皮埃爾-布爾迪厄出色地闡明瞭現代世界中產階級的這種狀況。法國著名的社會學家在此集中討論了法國資產階級、其《皮埃爾·布迪厄：區隔-品味判斷的社會批判》既是一部當代法國的龐大民族誌，又是對資產階級思想的剖析。

在日常生活中，人們不斷地在他們認為具有美感的東西和他們認為俗氣的、僅僅是時尚的或醜陋的東西之間做出選擇。布迪厄將他的研究建立在調查的基礎上，這些調查考慮到了眾多的社會因素，這些因素在法國人選擇服裝、傢俱、休閒活動、為客人準備的晚餐菜單以及許多其他的品味問題上發揮着作用。從他的分析中可以看出，在資產階級世界裏，社會勢利眼無處不在。人們所做的不同審美選擇都是區別--也就是説，與其他階級所做的選擇相對立。品味是不純粹的。布迪厄在訂購魚湯的決定中，在我們當代對瘦身的崇拜中，在慢跑和越野滑雪等 "加州運動 "中，發現了一個社會意義的世界。他認為，社會世界同時作為一個權力關係系統和一個符號系統發揮作用，在這個系統中，品味的微小區別成為社會判斷的基礎。

布迪厄的書的主題很吸引人：社會矯飾的策略總是令人好奇地吸引人。但這本書不僅僅是迷人的。它是對當前文化理論辯論的重大貢獻，是對當代社會學主要理論流派的挑戰。

No judgment 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 focuses 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. Bourdieu bases his study on surveys that took into account the multitude of social factors that play a part in a French person'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 judgment.

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.

這既是一部當代法國的大型民族誌，也是對資產階級思想的剖析。該書的主題是文化研究，其目標非常宏大：通過説明為什麼沒有任何品味判斷是無罪的，來回答康德《判斷力批判》提出的問題。

This is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind. The subject is the study of culture, and the objective is most ambitious: to provide an answer to the problems raised by Kant's Critique Of Judgment by showing why no judgment of taste is innocent.

目錄

Preface to the English-Language Edition Introduction 

PART I A SOCIAL CRITIQUE OF THE JUDGEMENT OF TASTE 

1. The Aristocracy of Culture The Titles of Cultural Nobility Cultural Pedigree PART II THE ECONOMY OF PRACTICES 

2. The Social Space and Its Transformations Class Condition and Social Conditioning A Three-Dimensional Space Reconversion Strategies 

3. The Habitus and the Space of Life-Styles The Homology between the Spaces The Universes of Stylistic Possibles 

4. The Dynamics of the Fields The Correspondence between Goods Production and Taste Production Symbolic Struggles PART III CLASS TASTES AND LIFE-STYLES 

5. The Sense of Distinction The Modes of Appropriation of the Work of Art The Variants of the Dominant Taste The Mark of Time Temporal and Spiritual Powers 

6. Cultural Goodwill Knowledge and Recognition Education and the Autodidact Slope and Thrust The Variants of PetitBourgeois Taste The Declining Petite Bourgeoisie The Executant Petite Bourgeoisie The New Petite Bourgeoisie From Duty to the Fun Ethic 

7. The Choice of the Necessary The Taste for Necessity and the Principle of Conformity The Effects of Domination 

8. Culture and Politics Selective Democracy Status and Competence The Right to Speak Personal Opinion The Modes of Production of Opinion Dispossession and Misappropriation Moral Order and Political Order Class Habirus and Political Opinions Supply and Demand The Political Space The Specific Effect of Trajectory Political Language Conclusion: Classes and Classifications Embodied Social Structures Knowledge without Concepts Advantageous Attributions The Classification Struggle The Reality of Representation and the Representation of Reality Post*: Towards a 'Vulgar' Critique of 'Pure' Critiques Disgust at the 'Facile' The 'Taste of Reflection' and the 'Taste of Sense' A Denied Social Relationship Parerga and Paralipomena The Pleasure of the Text Appendices 

1. Some Reflections on the Method 

2. Complementary Sources 

3. Statistical Data 

4. Associations: A Parlour Game Notes Credits Index

作者簡介

皮埃爾-布爾迪厄是法國社會學家、人類學家和哲學家。

Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher.