>> Pierre Bourdieu, "Distinction", 1975.
>
> If you claim everyone is a crass opportunistic status seeker
> say, Marx's appreciation of Shakespeare is nothing but a phoney baloney
> appropriation of the kind of "cultural capital" useful for gaining
> status in his particular social context, you are implicitly claiming
> that you yourself are nothing but a crass opportunistic status seeker.
Status has nothing to do with it. Carrol said, it sure would be nice if someone did an analysis of good taste. I pointed out, it's been done -- Bourdieu's text is the definitive late 20th century theory of how taste (good and bad) works in class societies.
-- DRR