And Soho's slide towards respectability mirrors society's tastes.
But another message in the exhibition declares: "Architecture mirrors society, its civility and its barbarism".
What worries me is whether the classroom will end up mirroring society?
This is the quandary that football, mirroring society, finds itself in.
Mr. Joshi said it was time that "we realize we are not only mirroring society we are shaping it.
"My level of political activity usually doesn't mirror society's, where there is a rise in activity at the approach of elections and then it tapers off.
Especially prevalent are images of opulently set tables, in which larger and smaller foodstuffs mirror society's structure as clearly as they had in Chardin's time.
"He sees this debate as a battle of the styles, which is against the run of history because architecture evolves and moves, mirroring society.
"Any organic structure that we see in nature bonds together and then falls apart for its own purposes of growth and decay," said Ms. Shin, who is interested in mirroring society's dependence on these drugs.
