Culture and Society

[P]artly because it doesn’t claim to be logical, or even reasonable, taste accomplishes powerful cultural provocation and persuasion.”
What social and cultural structures lie behind the seemingly ‘illogical’ or ‘unanswerable’ element of taste?

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