Talk:Distinction (book)

move paragraph

I'm moving the paragraph about the movie Titanic, because as written, it has little or nothing to do with the book, La Distinction, about which this article is supposed to be written. It may play off some of the ideas Bourdieu wrote about in this book, but it is not clear how and examples from the book itself would be far more appropriate. One should not illustrate the main idea of a book by using an example from a book published forty years later that may or may not cite the original.

Example: Titanic (1997)

La Distinction has influenced academics working in different disciplines. For example, one can explain the negative reputation of the film Titanic (1997, Cameron) as a backlash from the film's own popularity and from its position within popular culture. In his British Film Institute monograph, David Lubin compares attitudes against the film directly to the main thesis of La Distinction. He suggests that derisory attitudes towards the film exhibit a desire to disassociate the critic from fanatics who reportedly attended multiple screenings, and from coverage in tabloids and teen magazines focusing on the two main stars.

• Lubin, David M. (1999) Titanic. London: British Film Institute. ISBN 0-85170-760-2

Dwinetsk 07:03, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Reception & Camille Paglia

Isn't it a remarkable and fun - if not worrying - fact that Paglia's verdict on Bordieu's La Distinction, which at any rate nullifies the view of the International Sociological Association on Bordieu, has the last word - at least temporarily - of this article on Taste Being Dominated by Social Classes with sufficient Cultural Capital?

Suggestion:

In 2007 the feminist journalist Camille Paglia expressed agreement with Bourdieu's conclusion that taste depends on changing social assumptions, but suggested that it should have been obvious, and dismissed Distinction. In 1998 the International Sociological Association voted Distinction as one of the ten most important sociology books of the 20th century, behind Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann's The Social Construction of Reality (1966), but ahead of Norbert Elias' The Civilizing Process (1939). Haegar's (talk) 13:47, 28 November 2022 (UTC)