| Summary: | The article examines how aesthetic valuation systems within the tattooing profession in Mexico contribute to the formation of social inequality. Drawing on Bourdieu’s framework of perception, appreciation, and action schemes, it explores how aesthetic valuation practices are products of the occupational structure and how their reproduction legitimizes this structure. Through interviews and online observation, the study analyzes the formation of these perceptual schemes and their impact on mobility and the distribution of positions within the labor field. It highlights how aesthetic appreciation, beyond being an individual assessment, functions as a system of differentiation that ultimately solidifies into stratification systems.
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