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C/S/82. What does Bourdieu mean when he says that 'Taste classifies and it classifies the classifier

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2008
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The paper critically reviews Bourdieu's work on classification examining the paradoxes latent in the logic and language that people use to make sense of the world. Classical music is discussed with relevance to Bourdieu's understanding of rivalry of oppositions, where words can assume more than one meaning, and thus lose their stability

 

KEYWORDS: Bourdieu, taste, classification, paradoxes, stability, music,

 
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