| Preface to the English-Language Edition | xi |
| Introduction | 1 |
Part I | A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste | 9 |
1 | The Aristocracy of Culture | 11 |
| The Titles of Cultural Nobility | 18 |
| Cultural Pedigree | 63 |
Part II | The Economy of Practices | 97 |
2 | The Social Space and Its Transformations | 99 |
| Class Condition and Social Conditioning | 101 |
| A Three-Dimensional Space | 114 |
| Reconversion Strategies | 125 |
3 | The Habitus and the Space of Life-Styles | 169 |
| The Homology between the Spaces | 175 |
| The Universes of Stylistic Possibles | 208 |
4 | The Dynamics of the Fields | 226 |
| The Correspondence between Goods Production and Taste Production | 230 |
| Symbolic Struggles | 244 |
Part III | Class Tastes and Life-Styles | 257 |
5 | The Sense of Distinction | 260 |
| The Modes of Appropriation of the Work of Art | 267 |
| The Variants of the Dominant Taste | 283 |
| The Mark of Time | 295 |
| Temporal and Spiritual Powers | 315 |
6 | Cultural Goodwill | 318 |
| Knowledge and Recognition | 319 |
| Education and the Autodidact | 328 |
| Slope and Thrust | 331 |
| The Variants of Petit-Bourgeois Taste | 339 |
| The Declining Petite Bourgeoisie | 346 |
| The Executant Petite Bourgeoisie | 351 |
| The New Petite Bourgeoisie | 354 |
| From Duty to the Fun Ethic | 365 |
7 | The Choice of the Necessary | 372 |
| The Taste for Necessity and the Principle of Conformity | 374 |
| The Effects of Domination | 386 |
8 | Culture and Politics | 397 |
| Selective Democracy | 399 |
| Status and Competence | 405 |
| The Right to Speak | 411 |
| Personal Opinion | 414 |
| The Modes of Production of Opinion | 417 |
| Dispossession and Misappropriation | 426 |
| Moral Order and Political Order | 432 |
| Class Habitus and Political Opinions | 437 |
| Supply and Demand | 440 |
| The Political Space | 451 |
| The Specific Effect of Trajectory | 453 |
| Political Language | 459 |
| Conclusion: Classes and Classifications | 466 |
| Embodied Social Structures | 467 |
| Knowledge without Concepts | 470 |
| Advantageous Attributions | 475 |
| The Classification Struggle | 479 |
| The Reality of Representation and the Representation of Reality | 482 |
| Postscript: Towards a 'Vulgar' Critique of 'Pure' Critiques | 485 |
| Disgust at the 'Facile' | 486 |
| The 'Taste of Reflection' and the 'Taste of Sense' | 488 |
| A Denied Social Relationship | 491 |
| Parerga and Paralipomena | 494 |
| The Pleasure of the Text | 498 |
| Appendices | 503 |
1 | Some Reflections on the Method | 503 |
2 | Complementary Sources | 519 |
3 | Statistical Data | 525 |
4 | Associations: A Parlour Game | 546 |
| Notes | 561 |
| Credits | 605 |
| Index | 607 |
| Tables | |
1 | Class preferences for singers and music | 15 |
2 | Aesthetic disposition, by education capital | 36 |
3 | Aesthetic disposition, by class and education | 37 |
4 | Knowledge of composers and musical works, by education and class of origin | 64 |
5 | Furniture purchases in the dominant class, by education and social origin | 78 |
6 | Some indicators of economic capital in different fractions of the dominant class, 1966 | 117 |
7 | Some indicators of cultural practice in different fractions of the dominant class, 1966 | 118 |
8 | Types of books preferred by different fractions of the dominant class, 1966 | 119 |
9 | Social origin of members of the dominant class, by class fraction, 1970 | 121 |
10 | Rate of employment of women aged 25-34, by education, 1962 and 1968 | 134 |
11 | Changes in morphology and asset structure of the class fractions, 1954-1975 | 136 |
12 | Changes in morphology and asset structure of the class fractions, 1954-1968 | 138 |
13 | Morphological changes within the dominant class, 1954-1975 | 140 |
14 | Morphological changes within the middle class, 1954-1975 | 140 |
15 | Changes in class morphology and use of educational system, 1954-1968 | 158 |
16 | Annual household expenditures on food: skilled manual workers, foremen and clerical workers, 1972 | 181 |
17 | Yearly spending by teachers, professionals and industrial and commercial employers, 1972 | 184 |