I remember this idea being a revelation to me when I first learned about it. It was a lightbulb moment, it made total sense. I could see clearly that this is how I view cultural objects, through the assessment of whether they a culturally "good" or "bad". I've had so many arguments with people over the years about exactly "Why?" they like the things they like. The stock answer is "because I just do" or "because the X that I enjoy is clearly better than the Y that most people like". If one gets beyond this and actually manages to drill down into specifics ,"The wine I like is rare", "The wine I like is expensive", "... takes more effort to make", "... requires a refined palate" the question of, "But why do you consider these qualities to be better?" always ends in illuminating the value judgments of the social construction of taste. The only answer that makes sense is, "it tastes better to me".
Bourdieu’s point is that your « individual taste», is 98% not a coinsidence or individual at all. He would argue that your answer of « it tastes good to me» is most of all a construct of your environment and not of the « Me» part. Class and taste is real and it is a struggle for the people of the bottom to hide their poverty, because habitus reveals their social standing. The people on the topp 1%-0,25%) are afraid to lose their power/social status, and often show it with vulgar consumption. The real power lay with the educated upper middle classes who also have parents and grand parents from the same classes
@@Ikaros23 I think this is clear from the rest of the comment.. Maybe I should have written, "It tastes better to me, but I am constructed from my experiences and inadvertent assumptions about what is good and bad so my judgement can in no way be taken as being representative of an an absolute value that can be assigned to the thing I am making a value judgement upon."
What is interesting is the sports that are loved by different social classes. Or the type of players. The more one is proletarian the more one likes sports that appeal to the physical and the more one is of a high social class one appreciates the "technicians". If a proletarian appreciates tennis he will like Nadal more than Federer. Boxing (now MMA) is the emblematic proletarian sport. While golf is the bourgeois sport.
Your video quality is so immaculate! I usually have a short attention span which hinders me from listening properly but I was able to finish this video till the end. This honestly deserves so much more likes!
Thank you so much! English is my 2nd language and I kinda struggled with some vocabulary in Bourdieu's book. But your video makes me understand the theory clearly. Your video should have more likes!
This was so engaging! Thank you! After watching this I have better sense of Distinction but also the goal to look just as fabulous drinking from a beer boot as your image at the beginning of Symbols 😂
Hey man, curious if you will respond. This is about your view of Gilles deleuze book on Masochism. Do i have 2 have read Venus In Furs to understand Deleuze book? Thanks!
fun fan "vulgar" roots "Vulgaris" means "belongs to the crowd/plebs". We see that the use of this word serves as a distinction between an elite and the rest of the people.
why that people that belong to middle class tend to dislike the music/films or anything that is apreciated by the working class? i hope you answer my question
Do you mean why do the middle class want to be different from the working class? Or do you mean what goes on in a middle-class person's head when they think "I don't like this movie" or whatever This is a simplification, but the basic point is that the working class like things that are obviously likeable, and in particular things that make you feel good (pretty art, cute kitten pictures) or excited (action movies). It takes things like education, practice, money and familiarity to appreciate less "popular" things - that's generally what the middle and upper classes have. It is "cultivated" taste because you have to work on it.
@@eltonbelva8945 Class is a club. If you let everyone in, then it's not a club anymore Edit: There's also something going on along the lines of, "I may not be in the upper class, but at least I'm better than those lower class people". The middle class is famous for being the most class anxious.
!!! NB !!! According to Bordieu, the classes aim is to experiance and show upper class priviliges and so on. According to the real-life, the society today is actually a lot different. Even the tastes of music are emotionally depndent on the situation, thus people from different " clasess " are demonstrating emotional pleasure in different class circumstantions, and the tabloids are expressing that. Because of the yellow press actually some are for, and some are against this. Instead of the cultural background, I`d say the Time of one`s situation is more dependent on the needs and abillities to progress it, depending on own priciples and circumstantial decisions. Example: You`ve got a lunch break - situation with time period between 30mins - 1 hr. Do You take fast food ? or Do you eat properly on small restaurant ? According to Bordieu this is a choice connected with the backkground and class variables. Today actually, it is a question dependent on choice prioritization, that is connected with the amount of activities one have to/needs/wants to perform for the temporal period of time - day ! In a plain formulaic manner that describes the one`s real schedule/agenda for the day/week/month/year : I must to/have to; need to; want to BECAUSE OF, over that is symbolized - _______ (time + engagement/s) - Time of the day ! Best Regards, Teo
TL;DW: Taste is bs, in the end it's all about what group you (want to) belong to. Same goes for politics and ethics by the way. Pretty disconcerting actually.
