| Titre | Taxinomies populaires, taxinomies savantes : les objets de consommation et leur classement | |
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| Auteur | Luc Boltanski | |
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Revue | Revue Française de Sociologie |
| Numéro | 1970, 11-1 | |
| Page | 34-44 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Luc Boltanski : Popular taxinomies, scientific taxinomies : the objects of consumption and their classification.
This study criticizes the methods used by the econometricians to order and classify the different merchandises. By listing according to function, an abstract and arbitrary division is made which is determined by the nature of the techniques used to analyse the merchandise (regression analysis) ; this method claims theoretical neutrality, nevertheless it involves an implicit theory of consumption, of the consumer, and his needs. A list of this kind supposes the existence of natural needs which exist before the production of merchandise. Needs are not independent of merchandise: and it is not false to say that production produces consumption. The ideology of natural needs, expresses itself best in surveys on food consumption, which most often, do not account for dietary categories. The nomenclature used in these surveys, in classifying different types of food use abstract divisions without relation to categories which people use when they buy and consume. The utilization of such a list makes it difficult to discern the differences in consumption among various social groups. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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