A Sociology Of Culture, Taste And Value Hardcover

India

Dr Simon Stewart

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.

1137377070

9781137377074

English

Palgrave MacMillan

25 Nov 2013

198

Simon Stewart is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He is the author of Culture and the Middle Classes.

Stewart's book is an accessible guide to the sociology of culture that takes us from Weber to issues surrounding globalisation and value. It offers a critical account of some of the central ideas of the discipline and opens up a space for new sociological enquiries that may be more attentive to the phenomenal forms of taste. (Ben Highmore, New Formations, Vol. 86, 2015) "Throughout the chapters of this book, Stewart elegantly puts forward his ideas as he discusses the work of key cultural theorists and sociologists Pierre Bourdieu, Theodor Adorno, Zygmunt Bauman, to name but a few. Drawing inspiration from these theorists, Stewart contributes to the debates about Sociology and aesthetic value and in doing so he emphasizes other values besides the economic." Cultural Sociology "This timely volume is a well-rounded reappraisal of taste's sociological function [...] the author's in-depth knowledge of the overlapping principles in processes of rationalization, globalisation and cultural capital lead to a thought-provoking and insightful challenge to long held cultural assumptions that test the boundaries of our subjective leanings." - LSE Review of Books