Paris Hilton: A Paradoxically Vulgar Socialite

How a fourth generation descendant of presumable “good taste” can be so vehemently vulgar.

If I used Pierre Bourdieu’s Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste as my analytical framework, the video-advertisement you see bellow would be symbolic of today’s taste schizophrenia: one in which Bourdieu’s portrayal of a highly rigid, structured society where “tastes function as markers of class” would appear fallacious.

The advertisem…