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is a certain quality of bearing and manners, most often considered innate, is nothing other than difference, a gap, a distinctive feature, in short, a relational property existing only in and through its relation with other properties.

For Bourdieu, taste is a socially constructed and socially defined signifier: 'what is commonly called distinction, that is, a certain quality of bearing and manners, most often considered innate (one speaks of distinction naturelle, 'natural refinement'), is nothing other than difference, a gap, a distinctive feature, in short, a relational property existing only in and through its relation with other properties' (Distinction 6).

is always dependent upon what phenomena we wish to understand.

What do I mean by 'my' mind' I suggest that the delimitation of an individual mind must always depend upon what phenomena we wish to understand or explain. (Bateson 1970 : 10)

is the idea that judgments of taste are acts of social positioning.

Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste, in which he argues that judgments of taste are related to social position, or more precisely, are themselves acts of social positioning.' (wikipedia)

is the identification of a rupture, which once accepted, changes the world forever.

Making a distinction identities a rupture -it shows us where to look to see that which is taken to be the crucial dimension of the world that, as long as one accepts this particular distinction, has changed forever. . . ..(1) birth of historical consciousness, (2) actualization of political and socail freedom (3) emergence of self-reflexive subject (4) teh self-understanding of society as risk (5) the disenchantment of the world (6) triumph of alienation (7) modernity as contingency ' (Rabinow 2007:63)

is not a systematic boundary but a dichotomy with functions relating to action.

These distinctions are not systemic boundaries,but rather dichotomies that have functions related directly to action.We use the metaphor of the boundary because it enables us to look at very different kinds of empirical phenomena (such as the boundaries between spheres of influence), at categorical distinctions and the difference between different types of knowledge from a common point of view. (Beck 2005 : 534)

is the consequence, never the object, of a great mind.

is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

Distinction is an eminence that ie attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

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