SOC349H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Exoticism, Oxymoron
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The rise of the gourmet hamburger notes. Nearly half of all american consumers eat a burger a week. Omnivorousness: a type of cultural consumption that allows high-status groups to show off their distinction from other groups through their knowledge of a range of cultural forms; from low culture to high culture". Aesthetic preferences and cultural tastes have a direct correlation to social class: some cultural preferences are associated with good taste", those who are privileged in society are the ones that have access to these. Or are there gourmet foods exclusive in a general sense: fast food is both inauthentic, and non-exotic a hamburger oxymoron.
