Bourdieu's Distinction: Why Your Taste Isn't Really Yours
Why do some people prefer opera and others prefer pop? Pierre Bourdieu argued that taste isn't personal — it's a product of class. In Distinction, he showed how cultural preferences function as markers of social status, reproducing inequality while feeling like free choice.
Topics covered:
• What is cultural capital?
• Bourdieu's theory of taste and class
• Habitus: how class gets into your body
• The field and the game of distinction
• Why your preferences reveal your social position
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