Accounting for Tastes
Subtitle: Australian Everyday Cultures
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 13, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780521635042
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; Sociology; Consumer behavior; Anthropology - General; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Popular culture; Leisure; Anthropology - Cultural; Popular culture--Australia; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Australia; Lifestyles
First sentence: 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'.