The sociology of taste
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Jukka Gronow
- ناشر : London ; New York : Routledge,
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 1997
- شابک / ISBN : 9780415132947
Description
1 INTRODUCTION: 1 Need, Taste and Pleasure – or understanding modern consumption 1 2 PHILOSOPHICAL AESTHETICS AND THE REFINEMENT OF TASTE 13 Sociological aesthetics or aesthetic sociology 13 What is good taste? 18 3 LUXURY, KITSCH AND FASHION 31 Kitsch, fashion and the corruption of taste 31 Kitsch and luxury in the Soviet Union 49 Fashion and plenty in the post-industrial society 69 4 TASTE AND FASHION 74 Fashion as a self-dynamic social process 74 The social function of style and fashion 82 Taste and the process of collective selection 101 Food fashions and social order 111 5 THE BEAUTY OF SOCIAL FORMS 131 Simmel on social forms 131 Play and beauty 144 viii CONTENTS 6 CONCLUSION: 158 The aesthetic sociology and the aestheticization of everyday life 158 Notes 172 Bibliography 180 Index 190
