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Title: Tastes and complex tastes
Authors: Ma, Xiangyu
Keywords: Social Sciences
Issue Date: 2024
Source: Ma, X. (2024). Tastes and complex tastes. Cultural Sociology. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17499755241301603
Journal: Cultural Sociology 
Abstract: Taste is central to the sociology of culture and a frequently invoked explanans in the discipline at large. Yet, it remains a semantically ambiguous polyseme that has been understood and operationalized in often divergent ways by sociologists. In this essay, we survey contemporary empirical research on cultural tastes and use retroductive reasoning from measurements of taste to clarify the semantic ambiguity surrounding taste. We argue that taste should be conceptualized as a person’s thick subjectivity in a cultural field, that is to say a fundamentally multidimensional orientation that describes how we feel, consume, and praise in cultural fields. Recognizing the inherent multidimensionality to taste allows us to refine our understanding of complex taste phenomena. We outline a family of complex tastes using characteristic antinomies among their constituent modalities of action, and use a case study to show how each variety corresponds to extant folk concepts about taste.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/182085
ISSN: 1749-9755
DOI: 10.1177/17499755241301603
Schools: School of Social Sciences 
Rights: © The Author(s) 2024. All rights reserved. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the copyright holder. The Version of Record is available online at http://doi.org/10.1177/17499755241301603.
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