La distinction

La Distinction, a sociological book by French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930 - 2002), takes as its basis Bourdieu's empirical research carried out in 1963 and concluded in 1967/68. The original publication took place in 1979 in France. Richard Nice translated the work into English, and it appeared in the United States in 1984 under the title "Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste". In 1998 the International Sociological Association voted it one of the ten most important sociological books of the 20th century.
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