La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement

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book non-fiction book sociological work

La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement is Pierre Bourdieu’s influential sociological study analyzing how tastes in culture and consumption reflect and reinforce social class distinctions.

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Label	Occurrences
La Distinction	2
La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement canonical	1

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Target entity: La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement
Context triple: [Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, originalTitle, La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement]

A. La Condition humaine
La Condition humaine is a 1933 existential and political novel by André Malraux set during the 1927 Chinese revolution, exploring human destiny, commitment, and revolutionary struggle.
B. Honi soit qui mal y pense
"Honi soit qui mal y pense" is a medieval French phrase meaning "Shame on him who thinks evil of it," best known as the chivalric motto of England’s Order of the Garter.
C. Études philosophiques
Études philosophiques is a section of Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that groups together his more overtly philosophical and metaphysical novels and tales.
D. Sens et non-sens
Sens et non-sens is a collection of philosophical essays by Maurice Merleau-Ponty that explores themes of perception, art, politics, and meaning within the framework of existential phenomenology.
E. Le Bon Sens
Le Bon Sens is an 18th-century philosophical work by Baron d'Holbach that presents a rigorous materialist and atheist critique of religion and superstition.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

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Target entity: La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement
Target entity description: La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement is Pierre Bourdieu’s influential sociological study analyzing how tastes in culture and consumption reflect and reinforce social class distinctions.

A. La Condition humaine
La Condition humaine is a 1933 existential and political novel by André Malraux set during the 1927 Chinese revolution, exploring human destiny, commitment, and revolutionary struggle.
B. Honi soit qui mal y pense
"Honi soit qui mal y pense" is a medieval French phrase meaning "Shame on him who thinks evil of it," best known as the chivalric motto of England’s Order of the Garter.
C. Études philosophiques
Études philosophiques is a section of Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that groups together his more overtly philosophical and metaphysical novels and tales.
D. Sens et non-sens
Sens et non-sens is a collection of philosophical essays by Maurice Merleau-Ponty that explores themes of perception, art, politics, and meaning within the framework of existential phenomenology.
E. Le Bon Sens
Le Bon Sens is an 18th-century philosophical work by Baron d'Holbach that presents a rigorous materialist and atheist critique of religion and superstition.
F. None of above. chosen

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ sociological work ⓘ
argues	aesthetic judgments express class position ⓘ dominant classes impose their tastes as legitimate ⓘ education system reproduces class-based tastes ⓘ taste is socially conditioned ⓘ
author	Pierre Bourdieu ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	France ⓘ
developsConcept	field ⓘ habitus ⓘ symbolic capital ⓘ symbolic violence ⓘ
examines	how cultural preferences reinforce class structure ⓘ legitimization of dominant culture ⓘ lifestyles of different classes ⓘ relationship between taste and social class ⓘ social stratification ⓘ
focusesOn	1960s France ⓘ 1970s France ⓘ French society ⓘ
genre	social theory ⓘ sociology ⓘ
hasPart	analysis of art and museum attendance ⓘ analysis of food preferences ⓘ analysis of music preferences ⓘ analysis of sports and leisure activities ⓘ
influenced	class analysis ⓘ cultural sociology ⓘ cultural studies ⓘ education sociology ⓘ
introducesConcept	cultural capital ⓘ
mainTopic	cultural capital ⓘ cultural consumption ⓘ habitus ⓘ social class ⓘ social distinction ⓘ symbolic violence ⓘ taste ⓘ
originalLanguage	French ⓘ
publicationYear	1979 ⓘ
publisher	Les Éditions de Minuit ⓘ
recognizedAs	classic of social theory ⓘ major work of 20th-century sociology ⓘ
translatedAs	Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste ⓘ
translatedInto	English ⓘ
translationPublisher	Harvard University Press ⓘ
usesMethod	qualitative observation ⓘ quantitative survey data ⓘ statistical analysis ⓘ

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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste → originalTitle → La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement ⓘ

Les Règles de l’art → relatedWork → La Distinction ⓘ

linked to: La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement

Méditations pascaliennes → relatedWork → La Distinction ⓘ