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Taste as a Social Weapon@@@Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste.
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This article is published in Contemporary Sociology.The article was published on 1986-07-01. It has received 512 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Taste (sociology) & Judgement.read more
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Unions, Leagues and Franchises: The Social Organisation of Rugby Union in New Zealand
TL;DR: In this article, the amateur game of rugby union is analysed by focussing upon the struggles for control between national and local unions and players, and how the local advantages in the New Zealand game come to be reconfigured in this context.
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Assessing the early observers: cloth and the fabric of society in 19th‐century northern Thai kingdoms
TL;DR: The authors argued that an analysis of the social process of textile production helps reveal the cultural significance of these class differences, and suggested that a society's political economy provides useful insights into the semiotics of consumption and an important methodology for historical anthropology.
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New directions in theorizing the professions: The case of urban planning in Sweden
TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual framework is proposed to enable an analysis of professional structures and their relations to social fields, where the professional structure is defined as the composition of professional groups and the power relations between them.
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The social space of health inequalities in Portugal
TL;DR: The results show that over the life course, individuals positioned in different social classes experience distinct health and disease trajectories, revealing a structure of social inequalities based on the differentiated possibilities of accessing and using health resources.
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Comparing Arts and Popular Culture Experiences: Applying a Common Methodological Framework
TL;DR: The need to discuss both the arts and popular culture in the same framework has become apparent, especially in the cultural policy arena as discussed by the authors, and there is also increasing discussion among cultural policy leaders of a need for the conceptualization of a broadly cast economic "arts sector" that