- Preface to the English-Language Edition
- Introduction
- I. A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
- 1. The Aristocracy of Culture
- The Titles of Cultural Nobility
- Cultural Pedigree
- 1. The Aristocracy of Culture
- 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
- 2. The Social Space and Its Transformations
- 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
- Postscript: 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
- 5. The Sense of Distinction
- Appendices
- 1. Some Reflections on the Method
- 2. Complementary Sources
- 3. Statistical Data
- 4. Associations: A Parlour Game
- Notes
- Credits
- Index
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A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
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