The sociology of taste / Jukka Gronow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gronow, Jukka.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics--Social aspects.

Aesthetics.

Popular culture.

Fashion.

Fads.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The modern society of consumption is a society of fashion. Fashion has extended its influence over various fields of social life and, together with taste, become central to our understanding of the inner dynamics of any modern society. The Sociology of Taste looks at the role of taste - or the aesthetic reflection - in society at large and in modern society in particular. Taking case studies from social life, for example eating and food culture, it illustrates the role of fashion in the formation of collective taste.

Contents:

chapter 1 INTRODUCTION:

Need, taste pleasure understanding modern consumption parallel between philosophy gastronomy

chapter 2 PHILOSOPHICAL AESTHETICS AND THE REFINEMENT OF TASTE

SOCIOLOGICAL AESTHETICS AESTHETIC SOCIOLOGY Custom, public opinion and social cohesion

chapter WHAT IS GOOD TASTE? The refinement of taste in France

chapter The hedonism of the new classes and the emergence of the ideal consumer

chapter From the social hierarchy of tastes to mass fashion

chapter 3 LUXURY, KITSCH AND FASHION

FASHION CORRUPTION OF social interaction is corrupt taste

chapter Why does the entire material culture of the late nineteenth century create an impression of kitsch?

chapter 4 TASTE AND FASHION

SELF-DYN SOCIA PROCESS modern fashion pattern

chapter Fashion and taste

chapter The ideal diet of the Finns?

chapter The product as the real ascetic

chapter 5 THE BEAUTY OF SOCIAL FORMS

SIMMEL SOCIAL FORMS taste

chapter The ideal world of play and art

chapter 6 CONCLUSION:

aesthetic sociology and aestheticization of everyday money beautify social relations?

chapter NOTES

chapter BIBLIOGRAPHY

chapter NAME INDEX

chapter SUBJECTINDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-189) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-134-78655-7

1-134-78656-5

1-282-77788-2

9786612777882

0-203-15815-6

9780203158159

OCLC:

70726068