Friday, 7 November 2014

Editorial - Pierre Bourdieu -'taste'


riffraff - High cultural capital - Middle class

Retro - low cultural capital - Working class








Taste


cultural capital (taste) & social capital (networks) together make symbolic capital - it is the latter that is required to give you leverage and power in society.

holding enough cultural capital allows for ironic expression- or indeed why helena bonham carter can dress kooky not come across as an insane bag lady.

'habitus' is how you live these distinctions - how you literally embody them in your life and practice.



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