Taste (sociology)
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Taste as an aesthetic, sociological, economic and anthropological concept refers to a cultural patterns of choice and preference. While taste is often understood as a biological concept, it can also be reasonably studied as a social or cultural phenomenon. Taste is about drawing distinctions between things such as styles, manners, consumer goods and works of art. Social inquiry of taste is about the human ability to judge what is beautiful, good and proper.
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- What's one man's poison, signior,
Is another's meat or drink.- Beaumont and Fletcher, Love's Cure (c. 1612–13?), Act III, scene 2. Same in Lucretius, IV. 627.
- De gustibus non disputandum.
- There is no disputing about taste.
- Quoted by Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767); also used by Jeremy Taylor, Reflections upon Ridicule (1707), p. 122.
