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Taste, sensation, and skill in the sociology of consumption

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Wright, David (2018) Taste, sensation, and skill in the sociology of consumption. In: Wherry, Frederick F. and Woodward, Ian, (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Consumption. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190695583

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Abstract

This chapter re-examines foundational philosophical controversies about the meaning of taste and reflects on how tastes have been understood by sociologists. It argues these insights, while revealing the social patterning of tastes, have also obscured the extent to which tastes are bound up both with sensory experience and with the process of learning the management of the body and its responses to the world. It concludes that, while the substantive weight of the sociological study of tastes has concerned itself with questions of the aesthetic and to the identification of different dispositions held by individuals and groups in relation to aesthetic judgment, there is value, in understanding contemporary cultures, to building up those accounts of taste that are more oriented to questions of the ascetic and to the role of restraint and training in the development and cultivation of tastes.

Item Type: Book Item
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BH Aesthetics
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Aesthetics, Taste
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Place of Publication: Oxford
ISBN: 9780190695583
Book Title: The Oxford Handbook of Consumption
Editor: Wherry, Frederick F. and Woodward, Ian
Official Date: October 2018
Dates:
DateEvent
October 2018Published
14 May 2017Accepted
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190695583.013.26
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): Wright, David (2018) Taste, sensation, and skill in the sociology of consumption. In: Wherry, Frederick F. and Woodward, Ian, (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Consumption. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190695583 reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190695583.013.26
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 13 February 2019
Date of first compliant Open Access: 31 October 2020

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