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Music is the 'pure' art par excellence. It says nothing and has nothing to say. Never really having ...

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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction...

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The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field

Such competence is not necessarily acquired by means of the 'scholastic' labours in which some 'cine...

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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences...

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The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences...

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Thus, for an adequate interpretation of the differences found between the classes or within the same...

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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

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Pierre Bourdieu

Sociologist

Born: 1930-08-01

Died: 2002-01-23

Pierre Bourdieu (August 1, 1930 – January 23, 2002) was an acclaimed French sociologist whose work employed methods drawn from a wide range of disciplines, from philosophy and literary theory to sociology and anthropology.More