Pierre Bourdieu, la Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement (Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste), 1979.
There are others that i've absorbed, probably unconciously, but as far as books that i am aware of having had an effect on me, nothing else comes close. One cannot judge & distinguish in the same way after reading this book. (and that's probably true even for those who disagree with it.)
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