Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste - 2024 ACF Regionals

Question

One survey finding presented in this book informs a three-tiered classification along class lines where people with “legitimate taste” prefer Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier whereas the “popular taste” is for Strauss’s Blue Danube waltz. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this 1979 book, which claims that “symbolic violence” occurs through the imposition of social norms of the upper class on the behaviors of lower-class people.

ANSWER: Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste [or La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement]

[10m] Distinction is the magnum opus of this French sociologist, whose many contributions include pioneering field theory and quantitative techniques like multiple correspondence analysis.

ANSWER: Pierre Bourdieu

[10e] Bourdieu is well-known for theorizing how parents impart the “cultural” form of this economic concept to their children, perpetuating class distinctions. The “human” form of this concept roughly describes a person’s level of education.

ANSWER: capital [accept cultural capital or capital culturel; accept human capital]

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	11	10.91	64%	27%	18%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota	01/27/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	24.00	100%	80%	60%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	5	12.00	60%	40%	20%

Data


Berkeley B	Berkeley A	0	0	10	10
Berkeley C	Stanford A	0	0	10	10
Stanford B	Stanford C	0	10	10	20
Cornell B	Binghamton	0	0	10	10
Cornell A	RIT A	0	0	10	10
RIT B	Cornell C	0	0	10	10
Liberty A (Grad)	Duke A (UG)	0	0	0	0
GWU A (UG)	JMU B (UG)	0	0	10	10
Maryland B (UG)	GWU B (Grad)	0	0	10	10
Liberty B (DII)	JMU A (UG)	0	0	10	10
UNC D (DII)	Liberty C (DII)	0	0	0	0
Roanoke College A (DII)	William & Mary A (UG)	0	0	0	0
UNC B (UG)	Maryland A (Grad)	10	0	0	10
Virginia A (UG)	UNC C (UG)	10	10	10	30
Maryland C (DII)	Virginia B (UG)	0	0	10	10
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	10	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	10	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	10	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	10	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	10	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	10	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	10	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Minnesota C	0	0	10	10
Arizona State	Minnesota B	0	0	10	10
Iowa A	Claremont A	0	0	10	10
UBC A	Michigan State A	0	10	10	20
Texas A	Rice A	0	10	10	20
Sorbonne	Iowa B	0	0	10	10
UW A	Texas A&M A	0	0	10	10
Appalachian State	Texas A&M B	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	Michigan A	0	0	10	10
Michigan C	Ohio State A	0	0	10	10
Kenyon	Ohio State B	0	10	10	20
Columbia B	Haverford	10	10	10	30
John Jay	Johns Hopkins	10	10	10	30
NYU A	NYU B	10	10	10	30
Columbia A	Penn	0	10	10	20
Columbia C	Rowan	0	0	10	10
Bristol	Sheffield	0	0	0	0
Warwick	Cambridge A	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	Durham A	10	10	10	30
Oxford C	Durham B	0	0	10	10
Geodesic	Vanderbilt B	10	10	10	30
Alabama	Georgia Tech A	0	0	0	0
MTSU	Harding	0	10	10	20
Kentucky	Georgia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt A	Tennessee	0	0	0	0