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

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


Cornell B	Binghamton	10	10
Cornell A	RIT A	10	10
RIT B	Cornell C	10	10