“the most important of these figures are treated with a respect that is often quite out of proportion with their intellectual merits” (329)Here we see what theorist Bourdieu was pointing out. Much like the photo shown in class of Barbara Walters and the Dalai Lama, Lady Gaga is shown in photos meeting the Queen. We always see celebrities meeting important political figures yet a lot of the time it seems like they do not have the credentials to be doing so. There is an unbalance between the respect they have and their intellectual merits.
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