taste, n.Definitions

Taste is absent either system or proof.

Taste is as alterable as character is unalterable.

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.

Taste is an effect, not of individual perception or innate ability, but of social processes.

Taste is a key mechanism for organizing the distribution of symbolic resources... as such it is an important part of social reproduction.

Taste is a class-based phenomenon: What people accept as legitimate taste is not genuine good taste but rather the taste of the ruling class.

Taste is always primarily determined through negation, more through disgust than liking. This would also mean that the 'push' exercised by the lower classes is stronger than the positive 'pull' of the upper strata.

Taste is both a product of our class backgrounds, a marker identifying our class difference from others, and also a mechanism which helps to maintain social divisions between and within classes.