Some audiences seek stable tradition rather than ironic self-fashioning

Evidence

But the private people did not want to interpret mass-produced images or resist them or combine them in outlandish ways, as Hebdige’s punks did. Country-westerners did not want to revel in disjointedness. They did not want to be postmodern, or even modern; they wanted a stable set of taken-forgranted relationships, a shared, taken-for-granted sense of how to make a joke or how to tell when someone is being honest. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 918

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Initial status value shapes whether a fashion becomes tradition — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 808