Distinction--Pierre Bourdieu

"The social space and its transformations"

Question raised in this article:

- the aesthetic consumption, cultural consumption,taste affects competition in relation to logic of supply ie productions vs logic of demand i.e taste

- Habitus + field = practice

Field: a network, configuration of objective relations between social agents'positions that objectively defined in existing deposition of agents.

Field structure habitus, give habitus structure
Habitus is product of embodied, necessities of field; Habitus attribute the condition of field as a meaningful with sense and value in practice.

-Construct class by systems of variables.

Capital:
-economic capital
-social capital
-cultural capital
-symbolic capital: resources available to a person related to prestige, honour, position and respect etc

- social class and class trajectories, the initial and present position, statistical influence on social agents? unpredictable?

-three dimensional social space:volume of capital, composition of capital, and changes in these two properties over time (class trajectories)