Beauty in the Eyes of the Beer Holder

Scenes rely on individuals at various levels of their “experiential career.” Because scenes are publicly available and open and voluntarily joined and enacted because people are drawn to and thereby choose to appreciate their core object, they are necessarily home to individuals with varying levels of experience and knowledge. This type of diversity offers a necessary degree of dynamism to a scene. Chapter 6 shows the process by which aesthetic awakenings, aesthetic connoisseurship, and aesthetic entrepreneurship happen. All three are forms of socialization that require the acquisition and use of sensuous knowledge.