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Distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste
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This article is published in History of European Ideas.The article was published on 1989-01-01. It has received 4144 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Judgement & Taste (sociology).read more
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Poetics and performance as critical perspectives on language and social life
Richard Bauman,Charles L. Briggs +1 more
TL;DR: A long tradition of thinking about language and society argues that verbal art provides a central dynamic force in shaping linguistic structure and linguistic study as discussed by the authors. But poetics has often been marginalized by anthropologists and linguists who believe that aesthetic uses of language are merely parasitic upon such "core" areas of linguistics as phonology, syntax, and semantics, or upon such anthropological fields as economy and social organization.
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Socioeconomic Status and Obesity
TL;DR: Results underscore a view of obesity as a social phenomenon, for which appropriate action includes targeting both economic and sociocultural factors.
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Rethinking racism: toward a structural interpretation *
TL;DR: In this paper, a structural theory of racism based on the notion of racialized social systems is proposed, which is based on Fanon's notion of racism as a mental quirk.
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Income inequality and population health: a review and explanation of the evidence.
TL;DR: It is suggested that the studies of income inequality are more supportive in large areas because in that context income inequality serves as a measure of the scale of social stratification, or how hierarchical a society is.
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Food choice: a conceptual model of the process.
TL;DR: The conceptual food choice process model represents the rich and complex bases of food practices, and provides a theoretical framework for research and practice in nutrition.