David Wright 
Understanding Cultural Taste 
Sensation, Skill and Sensibility

This book will help students and researchers to clarify a complex concept that is often over simplified in media and cultural studies, the sociology of culture and cultural policy. It updates established theoretical and methodological debates in the study of taste and provides an original perspective on a distinct and rich research field.

Table of Content

Introducing Taste
1. Theorizing Taste
2. Measuring Taste
3. Governing Tastes
4. Globalizing Tastes
5. Producing Tastes
6. Digitalizing Tastes
Conclusion: Dimensions of Taste

About the author

David Wright teaches in the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies at the University of Warwick, UK and has interests in popular culture, cultural work and the politics of cultural participation. He was a Research Fellow at CRESC, based at the Open University, and a co-author of
Culture, Class, Distinction (2009).