조선 초기 양반의 술 문화 — 조선 초기 잡록의 술 관련 일화를 중심으로 —

Abstract

Pierre Bourdieu shows how social class tends to determine a person's likes and interests, and how distinctions based on social class get reinforced in daily life. This paper assumes that drinking alcohol is a kind of sign for distinctions. The object of study is some anecdotes which were written by yangban. They are contained by miscellaneous records in the early period of Choseon dynasty. Official discourse said that drinking alcohol was morally wrong at that time. The drinkers who were expressed in the records drank a lot (some of them even drank himself to death) ) and ate a lot. But the evaluations on them were positive. It is believed that heavy drinking reveals the inner side of drinkers which is great and strong. Next, This paper studies this phenomenon in the cultural context. I apply two terms to examine culture, one is 'synchronic' and the other is 'diachronic'. For the 'synchronic' study, this paper compares the drinking of yangban with that of other class, especially chenmin[賤民], the lowest class of Choseon dynasty. Chenmin's drinking bares no relation to his great and strong inner side and it is considered negatively. For the 'diachronic' study, this paper compares the drinking in the early period with that in the middle period of Choseon dynasty. In the middle period of Choseon, People had a tendency to consider the people who drank little to be positive. This means heavy drinking doesn't function the sign of distinctions anymore. The middle period put emphasis on the way of drinking while the early period put emphasis on the amount of drinking. Finally this paper examines the reason why the culture had changed at the level of economy and politics. As a result, the taste of drinking is not individual but cultural.