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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (Reprint Edition) by Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Nice (Translator) Paperback, 613 Pages, Published 1987 ISBN-10: 0-674-21277-0 / 0674212770 ISBN-13: 978-0-674-21277-0 / 9780674212770 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 |