Tag Archives: Distinction

Genre and Audience

By Steen | December 2, 2006

One aspect of genre that I have dealt less with, is the relationship between genre works and the genre audience. Not just as a matter of reception, but also as a matter of purpose for the audience. Why read a specific genre? What purpose does a genre fulfill for the reader, especially when we take [...]

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Dick Hebdige, Subculture: The Meaning of Style

By Steen | May 3, 2006

Hebdige’s classic work on subculture shows us much about how those commonly referred to as the dominated, do in fact resist this domination in complex ways.

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Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction

By Steen | May 2, 2006

In this expansive work, Bourdieu investigates the implications of taste based on social class. It is a massive work, much of it established through questionnaires, which is always a method I feel uncomfortable about. Bourdieu, however, is very reflexive of the method and even critically investigates it. This certainly adds to the usefulness of the [...]

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