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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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When clothing designers become business people: a design centred training methodology for empowerment incubation
TL;DR: Artisan entrepreneurial clothing designers in emerging countries often rely on their indigenous knowledge when they apply technical design skills in their micro businesses as discussed by the authors, and many artisan entrepreneu......
A Critical Exploration of Objectivity and Bias in Gambling (and Other) Research
Jennifer Borrell,Jacques Boulet +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors re-visit the basic premises of various research orientations, ranging from positivism to social constructionism, in relation to the conceptualization of the subject for study, the stance of the researcher and the associated normative research approach.
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Rhetorics of Place and Empire in the Fountain Sculpture of 1830s Havana
TL;DR: In the 1830s, Cuban and Spanish patrons sponsored three public fountains, designed and carved in Italy, for new and redesigned urban spaces in Havana as discussed by the authors, revealing diverging notions of the patria (motherland or homeland) within the Spanish Empire.
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The Norwegian sporting field reconsidered – the application of Bourdieu’s field theory on a pluralistic and blurred world
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take as a point of departure the history and present situation of the Norwegian sector of sport and physical activity (SPA), and sketches three ideal types of sport/activity: conventional (organized and competitive) sport, self-organized activities and commercial activities.