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March 14, 1997 0415132959 978-0415132954 1
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.

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Gronow makes thoughtful distinctions between genuine and artificial needs in his socio-cultural explanations of modern consumption, and he is especially clever at tracing patterns of consumption....
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pure social interaction, modern food culture, pecuniary beauty, democratic luxury, modern eater, mass fashion, pecuniary power, fashion mechanism, legitimate taste, collective taste, hedonistic consumer, agreeable arts, universal communicability, formal sociology, modern consumption, fashion pattern, elite fashion, demand for novelty, aesthetic sociology, artificial needs
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Georg Simmel, Soviet Union, Immanuel Kant, Herbert Blumer, United States, Colin Campbell, Friedrich Schiller, Rosalind Williams, Terry Eagleton, Vance Packard, Zygmunt Bauman, Claude Fischler, Second World War, Western Europe, Alan Warde, Daniel Bell, David Frisby, Fleischman's Yeast, George Cheyne, Max Weber, May Day, Vera Dunham
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