Though Distinction is dedicated to explain these questions, there seems inherently a vicious circle in the presupposition. But how could this educational capital or social origin have been transmitted to cultural capital? How does different social position (thus class disposition) integrate different level of cultural capital (thus different aesthetic perception)? In short, aesthetic taste is a product of the social differentiation. My impression of Bourdieu’s Distinction is that his radical social theory of class differentiation does not leave any room for subjective position, focusing on the deepest objectification of the “nature of the game.” Thus for him, cultural capital, which was assumed to be derived from the most subjective (but disinterested) taste, that is, from the ‘aesthetic judgment’ in Kantian sense, is not just a result of pure independent faculty of human being, but the very effect of the accumulation of academic and family capital. Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, Harvard UP, 1984.
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