Taste, Consumption and Markets

11 A Taste for the Other

Cosmopolitanism, Sense Work, and the Consumption of Difference

Ian Woodward

Suggested Preliminary Reading

1. Peterson, R. A., and Kern, R. M. (1996) “Changing Highbrow Taste: From Snob to Omnivore”, American Sociological Review, 61, pp. 900–907.
2. Warde, Alan, David Wright, and Modesto Gayo-Cal (2007), “Understanding Cultural Omnivorousness: Or, the Myth of the Cultural Omnivore,” Cultural Sociology, 1(2), 143–164.
3. Alexander, Jeffrey C (2008), “Iconic Consciousness: The Material Feeling of Meaning,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26(5), 782–94.

Recommended Further Reading

1. Appiah, Kwame Anthony (2010). Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a world of strangers (issues of our time). WW Norton & Company.
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