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A sociology of culture, taste and value / Simon Stewart

1. publ.

Basingstoke [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

VI, 198 S.

Englisch

978-1-137-37708-1 (£55.00); 1-137-37708-9 (£55.00)

OCoLC: 882947945 (aus SWB)      ; OCoLC: 876430854 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

2013

Palgrave connect

978-1-137-37708-1

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1057/9781137377081

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bicssc: JFC ; bicssc: JHB ; eflch: SOC

LOC-SH: Culture ; Aesthetics -- Social aspects ; Values -- Social aspects

This book explores sociological debates in relation to culture, taste and value. It argues that sociology can contribute to debates about aesthetic value and to an understanding of how people evaluate, This book explores sociological debates in relation to culture, taste and value. It examines the tensions between formal and substantive rationality; between courses of action which are instrumentally rational and those which are formulated with particular cultural values in mind; between impersonal forces and creative impulses; between the logic of profit and the ambiguity of aesthetics; between a tendency to like what we are trained to like and affective or contrarian impulses. Simon Stewart argues that sociology can contribute to debates about aesthetic value and to an understanding of how people evaluate and seeks to contribute to alternative approaches that draw attention to other values and to other ways of valuing

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"This finely written book provides an excellent overview of culture from the sociological perspective. It outlines the theories of culture central to the discipline, and does so with clarity and sophistication. It should be of great use to both students and specialists."- John Carroll, Professor of Sociology, La Trobe University, Australia "In this carefully written book, Stewart embarks on a creative exploration of the work of leading theorists of social organization and culture to probe the interconnections between taste, value, and globalization. Readers will be thoroughly engaged by this comprehensive and original integration that breaks new ground for the discipline."- Denise Bielby, Professor of Sociology, University of California, US