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Reviews

The Paying Guests

Jo Carruthers

Sarah Waters
Virago, 576pp

The French Sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, in his 1979 book, Distinction, analysed the relation between people’s taste for everyday objects and their class position, concluding that even tiny distinctions of taste – in food, sport, clothes – are motivated by class position. Although a study of French society, Bourdieu’s work illuminates the English class system, a system that is bolstered by judgements against the tastes of those classes below and …

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