Taste (sociology)

Taste is a cultural and aesthetic ideal, insofar thus differentiated judgment is meant, according to which everyone should aspire. Hans Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) is one of taste besides education, judgment and Sensus communis to the humanistic key concepts.

Various dimensions of the concept

Between aesthetics and morality

Gadamer explains:

This action-related rather moral ideal taste is immediately understandable when you eg its impact on the fashion, that is, considering the dress code in the original sense of the word. Or note the corresponding meaning of the term on the nature of the occurrence and the design of his personal environment.

The role of sensuality and aesthetics arises from the > awareness-raising function 'of the sense in which it illustrates the current sensory physiology and psychology, and has always been, a traditional fact of experience in the field of education and training. The concept of the Sensus communis accentuates the sensual Detectable heard of the word meaning of one mind here (Latin sensus = sense; sentire = feel, feel ). - The Sensual other hand, is the double meaning of the sense organ and sense abstract art. Sense and nonsense are precisely the subject of the abstract judgment as a matter of aesthetic consciousness. In order for a discernment is called, which is composed of all the senses, of course, not only from the taste assets than the power of the gustatory and olfactory system. Respect, taste, of course, a generalization dar. essential for the quality consciousness of good taste is that although they do not like the performance of the mind is bound to terms, but nevertheless enables us to messages.

If Gadamer by a " narrowing of the concept of taste itself " speaks, he means the restriction on the > Beautifully Mental <.

Between universality and subjectivity

While the notion of a 'natural formation ' even today refers not to the outward appearance and the formation of the shape of both the individuals as well as general education ideal, a change has for the spiritual formation through acceded to the generality, a change that also influence has taken on the concept of taste. Taste is therefore not only a subjective property, as it has yet understood Kant, but rather a cultural property, as it is provided by Hegel and Wilhelm von Humboldt. Preference is separated from judgments of taste: De gustibus non est disputandum ( for taste may not be negotiated ). He is not dependent on the judgment of others. This gives him the subjective decisiveness as well as objectively valid claim to validity. Taste includes the full range of custom and decency. The taste ideal has made ​​history by becoming the ideal of the third estate, and thus more birth and rank, but only the similarities of the judgment were not decisive.

Taste in the sociological sense

" Tastes have " is also used as a socially -social means of distinction, so far is the so-called good or bad taste of high or low taste distinguished (cf. the work of Pierre Bourdieu).