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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (Routledge Classics)

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P.Bourdieu continues the saga of everyday life from his previous work in Algeria.In the book he analyses the influence of upbringing and education on life(style) with the concept of cultural capital.He combines surveys and ethnography,sociology and socio-psychology,structuralism and phenomenology,micro and macro,structure and agency etc. under one framework that provides insights for every area (field) of life.Brilliant in the way he demonstrates the principle of homology as a product of habitus,the structured (and structuring) structure of perception, appreciation and action in everyday life.Coherent and stimulating.Definitively worth the effort.Written in a manner that is poetical,but scientific.Tough one.Read it!

This book contains a really interesting theory about the way that groups of people make different choices because of their position relative to other groups. Stated so simply it perhaps doesn't sound so exciting - but it is. It is one of those books that changed the way I look at life. I took from it an analytical framework which I use to give me amusing insights into behavior.

While the text is academic and sometimes rather heavy going, Pierre Bourdieu has written a clear-eyed, erudite exposition on class and taste: how taste is judged by various classes and how heavily choices based on "taste" can weigh in a sociological sense

Pierre Bourdieu in the philosophe (probably more than the sociologue) of determinism. According to him all our acts are led by social pressures. And this is why this book is so interesting. Even if he sometimes go too far, he shows in a brilliant way, that what we consider today natural is definitely cultural. Our tastes in food drink, music, cinema... do not depend on us but on our social background. Perfect conterpoint of today simplification and illusion of freedom, this book reminds us that "what is true is probably too complicated"(P.Valery).