The Social Organisation of Aesthetics – A Note

Authors

  • Paul Atkinson Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University

Keywords:

aesthetics, lack of research

Abstract

A note on Robert Witkin's The Aesthetic Imperative of a Rational-Technical Machinery: A Study in Organizational Control Through the Design of Artifacts and the state of research on aesthetics in sociology.

Author Biography

Paul Atkinson, Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University

Pem>Co-Director of the ESRC Research Centre on Social and Economic Aspects of Genomics, Sociology of Cultural Production

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Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2009)

Section

Discussion

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