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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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Iowa AClaremont A001010
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SorbonneIowa B001010
UW ATexas A&M A001010
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