2024-2025 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog [In Progress]
SOC 289 - Sociology of Art
Explores the ways that public debates over art, aesthetics, and taste mask fundamental conflicts of culture, class, race, ethnicity, and gender. Examines controversies over the public funding of historical and contemporary cultural projects, as well as the fluid boundaries between the taste for high and popular culture. Offered fall semester.
Credits: 3