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Tables of Contents for The Sociology of Taste
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
4
Acknowledgements
xiii
1 INTRODUCTION:
1
12
Need, Taste and Pleasure--or understanding modern consumption
1
12
2 PHILOSOPHICAL AESTHETICS AND THE REFINEMENT OF TASTE
13
18
Sociological aesthetics or aesthetic sociology
13
5
What is good taste?
18
13
3 LUXURY, KITSCH AND FASHION
31
43
Kitsch, fashion and the corruption of taste
31
18
Kitsch and luxury in the Soviet Union
49
21
Fashion and plenty in the post-industrial society
70
4
4 TASTE AND FASHION
74
57
Fashion as a self-dynamic social process
74
9
The social function of style and fashion
83
18
Taste and the process of collective selection
101
10
Food fashions and social order
111
20
5 THE BEAUTY OF SOCIAL FORMS
131
27
Simmel on social forms
131
13
Play and beauty
144
14
6 CONCLUSION:
158
14
The aesthetic sociology and the aestheticization of everyday life
158
14
Notes
172
8
Bibliography
180
10
Index
190