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PierreBourdieu.pptxPierre Bourdieu
Introduction to Distinction
Pierre Bourdieu
Taste or how cultural goods such as art are consumed is a “product of upbringing and education.” (1)
Not only taste, but according to research (surveys) “all cultural practices (museum visits, concert-going, reading, etc) and preferences in literature, painting or music, are closely linked to educational level (measured by qualifications or length of schooling and secondarily to social origin.” (1)
Pierre Bourdieu
There is a social hierarchy of arts as well as a social hierarchy of those who consume them.
Taste serve are markers of class. Consider the importance of manners.
Pierre Bourdieu
“Even in the classroom, the dominant definition of the legitimate way of appropriating culture and works of art favours those who have had early access to legitimate culture…” (2)
Thus when students who do not know these codes attempt to learn music or other topics, they can feel lost.
Pierre Bourdieu
Bourdieu notes how the concept of “love at first sight” regarding art is manufactured. “The ‘eye’ is a product of history reproduced by education.” (3)
He unpacks how culture is an internalized code that “functions as cultural capital.” Cultural capital is unevenly distributed and “secures profits of distinction.” (3)
Pierre Bourdieu
Similar to the “eye,” the “pure” gaze is an historical invention. (4) Pure gaze desires to break from what is ordinary and this is social separation. It is a means that people use to establish hierarchies of taste and position.
“Art and cultural consumption” validate social differences. (7)
