"In a specific social field, agents are constantly caught between two contradictory intentions. To be recognized in a field, one must distinguish oneself from it, but distinguishing oneself also leads to being excluded from it. Officers therefore need to adjust the balance between distinction and compliance. To have style is to follow fashion while standing out from it with a few personal touches." (Translated from the better French version of the wikipedia page)
Re:Preliminary Theory of the In-Group Contrarian
by oh_sigh on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:26AM
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It probably would have been easier to just translate the quote in your head instead of apologizing for it: "What is intoxicating about bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of displeasing"
(Sorry for the French quote)
I think that IGC tactics is also very common for the adepts of Dandyism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy
Bourdieu also wrote a book on something tangentially related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_(book)
"In a specific social field, agents are constantly caught between two contradictory intentions. To be recognized in a field, one must distinguish oneself from it, but distinguishing oneself also leads to being excluded from it. Officers therefore need to adjust the balance between distinction and compliance. To have style is to follow fashion while standing out from it with a few personal touches." (Translated from the better French version of the wikipedia page)