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ierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu (b. 1930), sociologist and educationalist, is one
of the most prominent exponents of French cultural studies. In a
string of books, he has painstakingly shown the complex and
intrinsic relationship between the struggle for social power and the
use of cultural products by different social groups. Bourdieu starts
by asking: who consumes what kind of culture? And what effect
does this consumption have? In L'Amour de I'art: Les Musees
d'art Europeens et leur public (1966) Bourdieu and his
collaborator, Alain Darbel,
show that the visitors to
state-run art galleries
are divided along
class and
educational
lines.
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