Episode 137: Bourdieu on the Tastes of Social Classes
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2016
⏱️ 129 minutes
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Summary
On Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste (1979), introduction, ch 1 through p. 63, conclusion, and postscript. How do our tastes in music, art, and everything else reflect our social position? This philosophically trained sociologist administered a few detailed questionnaires in 1960s France and used the resulting differences in what people in different classes preferred and how they talked about these preferences to theorize about the role that taste plays in our social games. Featuring guest Tim Quirk of Too Much Joy and recent guest on Mark's Nakedly Examined Music podcast #8.
End song: "When She Took Off Her Shirt" from Tim's band Wonderlick's Topless At The Arco Arena (2005).
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| 0:39.6 | Our question for episode 137 is something like, |
| 0:43.0 | How do our tastes reflect our social position? |
| 0:45.7 | When we read, Distinction, a social critique of the judgment of taste, |
| 0:50.0 | by Pierre Bourdoux from 1979, |
| 0:53.2 | that is the introduction chapter 1 through page 63, |
| 0:56.4 | and the conclusion in Post-Graph. |
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