Distinction (social)

Distinction is a term used in sociology term with which the more or less conscious delimitation of members of certain social groups (eg religious groups, classes, or even smaller units such as youth cultures ) is called.

These deferrals will occur probably already on this side of the animal -human transition field with the advent of the jewelry. Even the agonal rivalry and anger of Achilles, when it comes to a trophy of his achievements in Homer's Iliad, is a poetic example of a struggle for the distinction.

Rear Cross historical- sociological these mechanisms were first examined for the feudal society of the 16th to 19th century: Norbert Elias describes the tendency of the nobility to the continuous refinement of the " morals " as a social strategy to differentiate itself from the emerging and it imitative bourgeoisie, and in subsequently, as an essential driving force of today's forms of human self-expression and manners.

Pierre Bourdieu puts in one of his major works Distinction ( Original: La distinction, 1979) in front of a " Social Critique of the Judgement" by concrete expressions of taste preferences (based on art, music, furniture, food, drink, travel, etc. ) as consequence of the particular social status are to be considered; main driver here again is the desire for distinction, the distinction from others ( eg socially disadvantaged ) individuals or groups. In most cases here the upper classes, the standards for each highly valued lifestyles set ( see also snobbery ).

Rodrigo Jokisch has presented a prototype logic to a universal social theory with the logic of distinctions (1996). It is based on the three " activist categories" of communication, decision and action, operating on the basis of meaning and produce meaning. The main idea is that the emergence of social structures on the transformation from symmetric to asymmetric shapes and vice versa based.

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