Pierre Bourdieu – Dlstlnctlon a Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

“Because different conditions of existence produce different habitus — systems of generative schemes applicable, by simple transfer, to the most varied areas of practice — the practices engendered by Ihe difference appear as systematic configurations of properties expressing the differences objectively inscribed in conditions of existence in the form of systems of differential deviations which, when perceived by agents endowed with the schemes of perception and appreciation necessary in order to identify, interpret and evaluate their pertinent features, function styles” (Bourdieu, 1984: 170).

Bourdieu, P. (1984). Dlstlnctlon a social critique of the judgement of Taste. (Richard Nice, Tran.). Harvard University Press.