Community Sense: The Cohesive Power of Aesthetic Judgment
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Sociologists have undertheorized the role of aesthetic judgment in group identification. The author argues that the communication of aesthetic judgments in face-to-face interaction powerfully works to confirm or deny feelings of group belonging. The author introduces the concept of “community sense,” the public face of shared aesthetic judgments that is communicated and upheld within a group. The author illustrates this concept through an ethnographic case study of an erotic arts club, a group predicated on achieving a shared sense of “good” and “bad” taste. The author shows how the community sense is formed, challenged, and sustained in interaction, examining three characteristics of aesthetic judgments—derivation in form, visceral force, and intersubjective validity—that together constitute a strong basis for feelings of belonging and distinction. This setting acts as a wedge to access larger theoretical concerns, as the author explore the relationship between aesthetic judgment and feelings of group belonging in diverse contexts.
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This practical and embodied sense is what the author calls an aesthetic habitus.
“This practical and embodied sense is what I call an aesthetic habitus, an 'embodied reaction' (Wohl 2015: 302) to sights, sounds, and smells through which they asserted the authority to define what and who belongs as Tibetan Buddhist.”
From The Aesthetics of In/Authenticity: Buddhism, Commodification, and Ethnoreligious Belonging in a Sino-Tibetan Contact Zone (2021) · cites this paper as Wohl 2015
When such authority is challenged or destabilized, as it is in Wuhouci, its assertion becomes even more crucial.
“When such authority is challenged or destabilized, as it is in Wuhouci, its assertion becomes even more crucial (see Wohl 2015: 300).”
From The Aesthetics of In/Authenticity: Buddhism, Commodification, and Ethnoreligious Belonging in a Sino-Tibetan Contact Zone (2021) · cites this paper as Wohl 2015: 300
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- Authors
- Wohl, H.
- Affiliations
- Northwestern University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Wohl, Hannah
- ORCID
- Wohl, Hannah
- Venue
- Sociological Theory
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2015-12
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 299-326
- ISSN
- 0735-2751 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9558
- OpenAlex
- W2339198400
- Cited by
- 78
- References
- 79
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 5
- FWCI
- 75.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Sociological Theory (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Art, Aesthetics, and Perception
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Youth Culture and Social Dynamics
- Keywords
- sense of community, aesthetic judgment, group identification, group belonging, taste, face-to-face interaction
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