Accounting for Tastes is the most systematic and substantial study of Australian cultural tastes, preferences and activities ever published. While based on the findings of a survey, the book also includes transcripts from interviews where respondents talk freely about what governs their tastes and preferences in home furnishings, music, books, sports, television programs, and art. It is a book that makes a substantial contribution to the empirical and policy-oriented social inquiry into questions of cultural practices and preferences.
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Accounting for Tastes is the most systematic and substantial study of Australian cultural tastes, preferences and activities ever published. While based on the findings of a survey, the book also includes transcripts from interviews where respondents talk freely about what governs their tastes and preferences in home furnishings, music, books, sports, television programs, and art. It is a book which makes a substantial contribution to the empirical and policy-oriented social inquiry into questions of cultural practices and preferences.
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Australia and Australians are truely unique to the world. They see things differently, express them differently and seem as laid back as their accent. This book lets you share in the Australian lifestyle and through images produced with Tony Bennet's words you can see, touch and taste the Australian lifestyle. Everyone should experience a little of the Land Down Under and if you can't afford the plane ticket this book is the next best thing. Sit back in a comfortable chair, take the phone off your hook and get lost in Australia. Share a few hours with the regular Aussie and relax.
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The American sociologist Howard Becker once wrote that 'people do not experience their aesthetic beliefs as merely arbitrary and conventional; they feel that they are natural, proper and moral'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
subsidised culture, music genre preferences, pubs with live bands, part tert, omnivore types, highbrow genres, lowest ownership, educational cohorts, funded culture, only primary schooling, completed tertiary education, cultural imperialism thesis, nature posters, social gambling, taste hierarchy, restricted culture, private culture, taste structure, column percentages, only primary education, youngest cohort, live venues, percentage relation, strongest preference, oldest cohort Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Manual Mean, Primary Some, United States, Radio National, Wilbur Smith, Australian Everyday Cultures, Stephen King, Supervisor Sales, Female Male Male, The Bill, Jeffrey Archer, Suburban Semi-rural Small, The Blue Danube, Tom Clancy, Agatha Christie, Danielle Steel, David Bowie, Elton John, John Farnham, Melrose Place, Powder Finger, The Seekers, Blue Heelers, Classical Light, Pierre Bourdieu New!
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The American sociologist Howard Becker once wrote that 'people do not experience their aesthetic beliefs as merely arbitrary and conventional; they feel that they are natural, proper and moral'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
subsidised culture, music genre preferences, pubs with live bands, part tert, omnivore types, highbrow genres, lowest ownership, educational cohorts, funded culture, only primary schooling, completed tertiary education, cultural imperialism thesis, nature posters, social gambling, taste hierarchy, restricted culture, private culture, taste structure, column percentages, only primary education, youngest cohort, live venues, percentage relation, strongest preference, oldest cohort Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Manual Mean, Primary Some, United States, Radio National, Wilbur Smith, Australian Everyday Cultures, Stephen King, Supervisor Sales, Female Male Male, The Bill, Jeffrey Archer, Suburban Semi-rural Small, The Blue Danube, Tom Clancy, Agatha Christie, Danielle Steel, David Bowie, Elton John, John Farnham, Melrose Place, Powder Finger, The Seekers, Blue Heelers, Classical Light, Pierre Bourdieu New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic Spaces by Eric Hirsch in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Popular Music: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies by Simon Frith in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Class Analysis and Contemporary Australia by Janeen Baxter in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Cultural Policy (Core Cultural Theorists, 39) by Toby Miller in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Family Television: Cultural Power and Domestic Leisure (Comedia) by David Morley on page 75, and Back Matter
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- Culture in Australia: Policies, Publics and Programs (Reshaping Australian Institutions) by Tony Bennett on 7 pages
- Understanding Everyday Life (Sociology and Society) by Tony Bennett on page 31, page 78, and Back Matter
- Introducing Cultural and Media Studies: A Semiotic Approach by Tony Thwaites on page 227, and Back Matter
- Understanding Everyday Life (Sociology and Society) by Tony Bennett on page 31, and page 78
- The Power of Planning - Spaces of Control and Transformation (GEOJOURNAL LIBRARY Volume 67) by Oren Yiftachel on page 114
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