Book - Material Culture in the social world'
pg 17: Discusses material culture as being a feature of late modernity.
FURTHER READING: Marx's analysis of relations of production and the importance of material culture identified by MAUSS and the tradition of anthropology (study of human behaviour and sociology)
VEBLEN
Conspicuous consumption of the leisure class (Veblen 1953 [1899])
Offers a way of responding to the social significance of material objects.
Pg. 18: no longer defined by skills
Veblen situates objects within a cultural life that distinguishes those classes.
'Because this expenditure does not serve human life of human well-being on the whole ' (Beblen 1953:78)
PIERRE BOURDIEU - 'Distinction 1984 [1979] explores how peoples taste in French culture of the 1960's were related to their social standing.
Explores different between 'taste' as a sense and 'taste' as a set of cultural preferences and aesthetic judgements.
Cultural orientation (taste) is embedded in the routine practises of social being, such as (pg 20.):
"Automatic gesture or the apparently insignificant techniques of the body - ways of walking...talking - and engage the most fundamental principles of construction and evaluation of the social world, those which almost directly express the division of labour ( between the classes, the age groups and the sexes) or the division of the work of domination, in divisions between bodies...the sexual division of labour and the division of sexual labour..."
(Bourdieu: 1984 466)
No comments:
Post a Comment