Evaluate this quote. Start by putting these ideas in your own…

Evaluate this quote. Start by putting these ideas in your own…

Evaluate this quote. Start by putting these ideas in your own words.

Then offer your interpretation of what it means. You are asked to provide an example work of art and explain how it relates to the ideas discussed in your essay. (Roughly 500 words or 2 pages double spaced) “To the socially recognized hierarchy of the arts, and within each of them, of genres, schools or periods, corresponds a social hierarchy of the consumers. This predisposes tastes to function as markers of ‘class’. The manner in which culture has been acquired lives on in the manner of using it: the importance attached to manners can be understood once it is seen that it is these imponderables of practice which distinguish the different—and ranked—modes of culture acquisition, early or late, domestic or scholastic, and the classes of individuals which they characterize. Pierre Bourdieu, Introduction from Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, 1984