“In 1984, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu explored the social patterning of consumption and taste in Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Bourdieu found that family socialization processes and educational experiences are the primary determinants of taste for… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
“What confirms them in this view is the peculiar circumstance that the use-value of a thing is realized without exchange, i.e., in the direct… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
“this fetishism of the world of commodities arises from the peculiar social character of the labor which produces them.” — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
“Even feminists who never wore a skirt or make-up went crazy about Kickers, or wore beautifully hand-painted boots in rainbow colors; they adorned themselves… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
“In mass culture, imperialist nostalgia takes the form of reenacting and reritualizing in different ways the imperialist, colonizing journey as narrative fantasy of power… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
“Currently, the commodification of difference promotes paradigms of consumption wherein whatever difference the Other inhabits is eradicated, via exchange, by a consumer cannibalism that… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
“In 1984, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu explored the social patterning of consumption and taste in Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste.… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
“It is within the commercial realm of advertising that the drama of Otherness finds expression. Encounters with Otherness are clearly marked as more exciting,… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
“When race and ethnicity become commodified as resources for pleasure, the culture of specific groups, as well as the bodies of individuals, can be… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
“Certainly from the standpoint of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, the hope is that desires for the “primitive” or fantasies about the Other can be… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
