This edited collection explores the exceptional international influence of Pierre Bourdieu's classical book Distinction in contemporary Social Sciences. Including contributions from contemporary sociologists from various countries, it sketches the genesis and career of the book, both in France and abroad, and illustrates its continuing in

Introduction: From Distinction to distinction studies Part 1: The genesis and career of Distinction 1. Elements for the history of a research: Constructing social space, from «anatomie du goût» to «Distinction» by Monique de Saint-Martin 2. The international career of "Distinction" 3. The intellectual reception of Bourdieu in Australian social sciences and humanities Part 2: The legacy of Distinction in France 4. From « petit-bourgeois » to « petits-moyens », an invitation to explore short-range upward social mobility 5. Cultural intermediaries: reproduction strategies, resistance to social downgrading and self-fulfilment 6. Continuity and change: Cinematographic tastes in France 7. Culture at the individual level: Questioning the transferability of the habitus dispositions8. Cultural distinction and material consumption Part 3: Variations on Distinction 9. The Swedish social space of 1990: Investigating its structure and history 10. Constructing social spaces: Scandinavian experiences 11. Cultural Distinctions in an Egalitarian Society 12. Bourdieu's space revisited: The social structuring of lifestyles in Flanders (Belgium) 13. A carnal critique of the judgment of taste: Corpulence, class bodies and symbolic violence 14. The Australian space of lifestyles in comparative perspective 15. The space of cultural practices in Mexico 16. Emerging forms of cultural capital