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
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