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Making Memory: Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Ronald Eyerman
This is a study of how collective memory forms out of traumatic experience. It addresses questions about the formation of collective identity out of individual trauma, and, in turn, how individual and collective trauma intertwine. This process of memory formation is illustrated through the example of an incident that took place in Northern Ireland on 30 January 1972, an event that came to be known
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Investigating Collective Emotional Structures: Theoretical and Analytical Implications of the ‘Deep Story’ Concept Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Maja Sawicka
Since Hochschild proposed the notion of a ‘deep story’ to address a collective emotional structure (particularly resentment) underpinning political attitudes and social divisions in the contemporary USA, this category has been widely embraced across social sciences to reflect upon links between sedimented emotions, motivations, actions and means of social mobilization. Simultaneously, however, criticism
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Nothing Changed, Nothing Gained? Emotional Responses towards European Integration in the Memoirs of Polish Farmers Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Mirosława Radowska-Lisak, Magdalena Kowalska
Accession to the European Union (EU) aroused diverse emotions in public debate among citizens, but the everyday experience of being an EU member is much more difficult to narrate than by relating to two contrasting views for and against European integration. The situation becomes more complicated if we analyse the emotional responses of Polish farmers, for whom joining the EU has been one more change
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Numbers as Fact-Icons: The Public Power of ‘6402’ in Post-War Colombia Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Nicolás Rudas
In 2021, the Peace Court of Colombia revealed that the national army had systematically executed 6402 innocent civilians, falsely presenting them as members of illegal armed groups. This revelation catapulted the number ‘6402’ into a prominent position within the country’s public discourse. I reconstruct the first six months of the figure’s dissemination, encompassing its coverage in both traditional
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Licensed to Rock (or so they say). How Popular Music Programmes at Higher Music Education Institutions Create Professional Musicians Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Rick Everts, Pauwke Berkers, Erik Hitters
Due to technological innovations, the music industries have become more accessible for outsiders over the past two decades. Yet, over the same period we have seen an increasing number of popular music programmes at higher music education institutions (HPME programmes). Drawing from interviews with teachers, focus groups with students and a content analysis of policy documents at three Dutch HPME programmes
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Cultural Intermediation and Civil Society: Towards a Hermeneutically Strong Conception Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Marcel Knöchelmann
Literary fiction narrates ethical and moral meaning. It is rich with ethical conceptions of the good life and expressions of moral universalism, and it assumes a meaningful role in civil society through this richness. And yet, existing conceptions of cultural intermediation do not consider this richness; they are reductive in the way they focus on the social-structural space in between author and reader
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Iconic Extensions and Memetic Audiences: The MAGA Hat as a Site of Conflict in the US Public Sphere Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Vanessa K. Bittner
This article introduces the concept of ‘iconic extensions’ and explores the phenomenon of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) hat as a highly recognizable and controversial political symbol in the United States of America. By focusing on audience engagement of wearers and critics alike, it expands the understanding of political discourse beyond the actions of individual leaders and emphasizes audience
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Desire and Modesty in Post-Soviet Expectation for the Western Standard of Life: Contrasting and Empowering Narratives of Latvian Emigrants and Latvians who Stayed at Home Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Iveta Ķešāne
Post-Soviet subjects have often been portrayed as ‘winners’ or ‘losers’ of post-Soviet transformations, where those socioeconomically successful are seen as winners while the socioeconomically weak are losers. Such language of ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ carry neoliberal scripts of success, which are based on the western upper-middle-class standard. The ideas of neoliberalism also dictated the post-Soviet
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Cultural Practices and Socio-Digital Inequalities in Europe: Towards a Unified Research Framework in Cultural Participation Studies Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Predrag Cvetičanin, Lucas Page Pereira, Mirko Petrić, Inga Tomić-Koludrović, Frédéric Lebaron, Željka Zdravković
In this article, we propose a unified research framework for studying the impact of social and digital inequalities on four types of cultural practices: offline art-related practices, offline everyday cultural practices, online art-related practices, and online everyday cultural practices. In contrast to the research traditions that study them separately, we argue that the subject of further research
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Fashion as ‘Force for Change’? How Ideologization Reshapes the Work of Intermediaries in the Legitimation of Culture Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Luuc Brans, Giselinde Kuipers
What happens when politics enters strongly aesthetic cultural fields? This article proposes a novel conceptual framework, which we propose to call ideologization, to understand how political-ideolo...
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Private View? The Organisational Performance of ‘Privateness’ and ‘Publicness’ at an Art Gallery Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Laura Harris
This article takes a cultural approach to analysing the profound privatisation of the public in one of the many places in which it manifests: an art gallery. I argue that, as well as categories of ...
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Friendship, Intimacy, and the Contradictions of Therapy Culture Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Laura Eramian, Peter Mallory, Morgan Herbert
While therapy culture has long been a part of the repertoires through which people think about and practice their romantic relationships, it has been less prominent in how they envision friendship....
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‘I am a Punk, I Don’t Give a Damn!’ Chez Narcisse: A Rural Place of Resistance Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Audrey Tuaillon Demésy
Chez Narcisse is a bar located on the threshold of the southern Vosges, in the east of France, that has been run by the same family for over 120 years. Its particularity lies in the fact that since...
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Performing Identity or Performing Relationships? Rethinking Performance Theory in Social Media Studies Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Danny Kaplan
Much of the discussion of performance and collective action presupposes a hierarchical performer–audience structure along the lines of Durkheimian public events intended to reaffirm a collective id...
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Situating the Atrium: A Cultural Political Economy Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Paul Jones
Effectively a double-height or larger void internal to a building, the atrium is a familiar architectural feature the world over. The global popularity of the space in contemporary urban buildings ...
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Everything is in My Hands. Creative Subjectivities in Privileged Art School Students Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Anna Uboldi
How do privileged young people engage in artistic fields? Are the arts classified and classifying for educational paths? To examine these questions, I propose observations and reflections from a st...
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Secret objects in the home: Potency, (in)visibility and everyday relationships Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Sophie Woodward, Cornelia Mayr
This article argues that the material dimensions of secrecy, which have been neglected within academic research into consumption and into material culture, are ripe for sociological analysis and at...
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Cultures of Cultural Globalization: How National Repertoires and Political Ideologies Affect Literary and Artistic Circulation Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Peggy Levitt, Andreja Siliunas
While prior research foregrounds the economic and political conditions that shape cultural globalization, we focus on the effects of culture. We argue that diffusion itself is a cultural practice, ...
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Introducing Affective Practices: Disgust in Finnish Consumers’ Everyday Meat Consumption Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Outi Koskinen
The affective turn has highlighted the need to study emotions, visceral reactions and embodied experiences within social sciences, and its importance has also been recognized within theories of pra...
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Music, Resilience and ‘Soundscaping’: Some Reflections on the War in Ukraine Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Janine Natalya Clark
There exists a rich corpus of literature exploring some of the diverse roles – positive and negative – that music can play in war. This interdisciplinary article makes a novel contribution to this ...
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How Professionals Cooperate through Conflicts: Networks and Social Face in the Workplace Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Anson Au
Conflicts are everyday sources of professional disagreement in the workplace. This article advances the study of professional conflicts by examining the symbolic interactionist processes through wh...
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‘You Don’t go to These Kinds of Concerts for Fun’: The Fluid and Emergent Performance of Taste in Contemporary Art Music Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Simon Chambers
Theorisations of cultural preferences frequently posit a nexus between familiarity and pleasure. The pursuit and enjoyment of our tastes has been linked to the socialised acquisition of embodied cu...
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‘If God is a DJ’: Heritage Rave, the Ageing Raver and the Bodywork of the DJ Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Helen Holmes, Nick Crossley, Graeme Park
In this article we explore the revival of rave music in the UK, reporting original research findings and focusing, in particular, upon two emergent themes: (1) the lived experience of the ageing ra...
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Dystopian Games: Diagnosing Modernity as the Scene of Tests, Trials and Transformations Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Tom Boland
Emergent genres can serve as diagnoses of society, particularly dystopias which exaggerate yet articulate problematic elements within modernity. Herein the focus is on ‘dystopian games’, particular...
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Presidential versus Civil Power: Public Opinion, Second-Wave Feminism, and Party Politics in the USA Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Willa Sachs, Jeffrey C Alexander
This article theorizes the relationship between social movements, public opinion, and presidential power. While sociologists and social movement scholars have long neglected these interconnections,...
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The Civil Sphere and Social Class Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Celso M. Villegas
How can civil sphere theory contribute to class analysis? In contrast to critics who suggest Jeffrey Alexander’s The Civil Sphere does not take class seriously, this paper argues that class is a ce...
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Narratives of Volunteering and Social Change in Wartime Ukraine Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Olga Boichak, Brian McKernan
Ukraine’s efforts to resist the Russian invasion have sparked unprecedented levels of civic engagement. While the more tangible efforts to alleviate immediate needs have been prominently featured i...
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From Author to Network: The Coming of Age of Civil Sphere Theory Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Peter Kivisto, Giuseppe Sciortino
This article argues that Jeffrey Alexander’s The Civil Sphere constitutes the first sociological theory of civil society, a theory with its own developmental history. That history includes the traj...
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Technology as (Dis-)Enchantment. AlphaGo and the Meaning-Making of Artificial Intelligence Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Werner Binder
As a social phenomenon, artificial intelligence (AI) is not just technically but also culturally constructed. This article investigates the meaning-making of AI in the case of AlphaGo by employing ...
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Encountering the Civil Sphere Through Cinema: The Cinematic Gap as a Pathway to Civil Evaluation and Repair Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Jessie Dong
Despite being one of the most influential forms of media, cinema has yet to be theorized as a communicative institution of the civil sphere. Contrary to commonsense understandings of cinema as a me...
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Beginning at the Beginning: Towards a Trans-actional Music Sociology Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Mark Rimmer
Music sociology has proven a fertile arena for the study and theorization of object–subject interaction, with the work of scholars such as Tia DeNora and Antoine Hennion marking its key contributio...
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The Grant Proposal as a Genre. A Multiple Correspondence Analysis of Visual Artists and their Legitimations for Government Grants in Flanders, 1965–2015 Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Julia Peters, Henk Roose
Do artists’ justificatory strategies to obtain government grants reflect expectations from the funding body, or are they predominantly tied to artists’ field positions? Using Multiple Correspondenc...
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The Trouble with Diversity: The Cultural Sector and Ethnic Inequality Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Roaa Ali, Bridget Byrne
Diversity has increasingly become coveted in the Creative and Cultural Industries (CCIs), with a significant presence in institutional and policy vocabularies. The concern to employ diverse staff a...
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Accomplishing Reality Media: The Affective Lure of Online Crime Discussions Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Erik Hannerz, Veronika Burcar Alm, David Wästerfors
Drawing from interviews with posters and an analysis of a dozen discussion threads on the Swedish online discussion forum Flashback, this article sets out to investigate the dramatization of crime ...
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‘Our (Civil) Way of Life’: The Folkloric Civil Sphere Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Hizky Shoham
Does the civil sphere consist merely of conscious and reflective subjects? Do folkloric habits, customs, and traditions contribute anything to its universalism? This article proposes the term ‘folk...
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Interstitial Institutions Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Liv Egholm
Lately, cultural sociologists have been engaged in theorizing the complexity and ambiguities of border-crossing translations from a variety of research strings. This article contributes to this the...
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Struggles for Horizontal Identification: Muslims, Jews, and the Civil Sphere in Germany Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Elisabeth Becker
Muslims across Europe have been labeled as uncivil since the migration waves of postcolonial and guestworker migrants in the mid-20th century. In this paper, I bring the Muslim experience in the Ge...
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Performative Feelings for Others: The Civil Repair of Organised Competitive Sports Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Trygve B Broch
In many western nations, sport is an institutional component of civil society that may be considered from quite different outlooks. From the critical theorists’ viewpoint, sport reproduces social h...
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Purification or Pollution? The Debate over ‘Workplace Spirituality’ Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Galen Watts, Dick Houtman
The commentary on ‘workplace spirituality’ is deeply polarized. Among advocates, the integration of spirituality and work is hailed as the ultimate cure-all for the problems facing the modern work ...
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What’s Up with Cultural Sociology? From Bourdieu and the Mainstream to ‘Productive Weirdness’ Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Christopher Thorpe, David Inglis
What constitutes the field of ‘cultural sociology’ today? Where has it come from, and where is it going? And how has the journal Cultural Sociology played a role in the field over the journal’s 15 ...
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Sad and Absurd Representations of War in Gameplay and Interviews Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-09-09 David Wästerfors
There is a vivid interest in so-called epimilitary narratives of war that depart from heroic themes and zoom out from the armed forces. This article joins this direction by analyzing two variants o...
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‘Class is Always a Matter of Morals’: Bourdieu and Dewey on Social Class, Morality, and Habit(us) Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Michael Halewood
This article argues that all judgements or statements about social class are inherently moral in that they implicitly advocate how people should (or should not) act. The argument extends Bourdieu’s...
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Why Fans of the Evil Genius Remain Fans: The Case of Richard Wagner and the Bayreuth Festival Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Philip Smith, Florian Stoll
An enduring feature of public life has been the social death of prominent artists, impresarios and entertainers after moral transgressions. But not everyone is shunned. Often fans and general audie...
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Voicing Omnivorousness, Assembling the Omnivorous Voice: The American Musical Explored Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Guro von Germeten, Sidsel Karlsen
This article focuses on the notion of cultural omnivorousness, as coined by Richard Peterson, to explore its various manifestations within the American musical, commonly known as the Broadway music...
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Urban Art in Lisbon: Emerging Opportunities and Career Aspirations Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-07-23 Ricardo Campos, Leda Barbio, Ágata Sequeira
This article focuses on contemporary urban art in the city of Lisbon. We understand urban art as an art world that has developed through a historical process that, in Portugal, is essentially three...
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Critical Appraisal and Masculine Authority: The Boys Clubs’ Derogatory Method of Reading Canadian Feminist Speculative Fiction Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Marie-Lise Drapeau-Bisson
Culture scholars have shown that cultural intermediaries play a crucial role in the reproduction of inequalities in consecration (Corse and Westervelt, 2002; Maguire Smith and Matthews, 2012; Mille...
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Scenography and the Production of Artworks in Contemporary Art Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Linzhi Zhang
This article challenges the assumption in a classical sociology of art that artworks are created in the artist’s studio as independent and self-sufficient objects. Given that artistic production me...
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Symbolic Violence and the Social Space: Self-imposing the Mark of Disgrace? Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Johan Lindell
A great amount of effort has gone into studying correspondences between contemporary class structures and the distribution of lifestyles and media practices therein. Structural overlaps between these spaces imply the existence of a symbolic order, where dominant factions of society constitute taste keepers endowed with the power to stigmatize those below them in the social hierarchy. Yet, research
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Editorial Statement: Visions for Cultural Sociology in Uncertain Times Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-06-19 Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, Ming-Cheng M Lo, Marcus Morgan, Christopher Thorpe, Rin Ushiyama
In this editorial statement, we consider the journal’s history to date, the state of the field presently, and the directions in which we hope to take it in the future. Broadly, this endeavour involves reflecting on issues of continuity and change. More specifically, this requires us to identify those aspects of the journal which we consider important to ensure continuity and reproduction, and those
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The Body of a Performer as a Form of Capital: Age, Gender and Aesthetics in Theatre Work Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-06-10 Stribor Kuric Kardelis
The goal of this article is to analyse socio-cultural schemes embodied in the physical bodies of theatre actors and their effect on the actors’ professional development. Age, gender and beauty standards are three key variables in theatre work and their impact is noticeable all over the performers’ career spans. The basis for this research is a qualitative sample of 31 in-depth interviews with professional
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‘If You Move in the Same Circles as the Royals, then You’ll Get Stories About Them’: Royal Correspondents, Cultural Intermediaries and Class Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Laura Clancy
This article analyses the cultural politics of the Royal Correspondent: journalists who specialise in reporting news on the British royal family. It draws on in-depth interviews with Royal Correspondents and a broader understanding of royal news production, to position Royal Correspondents as cultural intermediaries. Pierre Bourdieu described cultural intermediaries as ‘taste-makers’ with influence
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Adjusting the Coordination of Parental Foodwork Practices Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Kaisa Torkkeli, Johanna Mäkelä, Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen
Carrying out proper food practices in family life is seen as the inherent and taken-for-granted responsibility of parents. However, the theoretically solid and comprehensive picture of coordination relating to parental food practices is missing. This study aims to map the coordination of cooking-related practices in today’s hurried family life. By applying practice theory, we employ the concept of
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The Racialised ‘Second Existence’ of Class: Class Identification and (De-/Re-)construction across the British South Asian Middle Classes Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Rima Saini
This article maps typologies of class identity for the UK-born South Asian middle classes. Using thematic analysis of interviews with 20 British South Asian professionals, it identifies culturally and socially situated forms of class (dis-)identification. It finds that ‘middle-class’ identity is not uncritically adopted or internalised by socially mobile British South Asians who, on the bases of objective
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‘Supertanker is a Hero, the Government a Villain’: Politicization of Chile’s 2017 Forest Fires in the Media Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Tomás Undurraga, Pedro Güell, Mario Fergnani
This article analyses the politicization of natural disasters in the media and the narratives of crisis that contribute to these dynamics. In particular, it studies media coverage of the 2017 mega-fires in Chile and the way in which this coverage was framed by pre-existing political disputes over the performance of Michelle Bachelet’s government (2014–2018). It examines the print press coverage of
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The Geo-Ecological Turn in Sociology and its Implications for the Sociology of the Arts Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Fabian Holt
Accelerating climate change has set in motion a broad change in beliefs about human life that is affecting the social sciences and humanities (SSH). A deeper understanding of the social causes and consequences of climate change is evolving in sociology, yet some of the discipline’s subfields have not responded to climate change. Is this because climate change is perceived to be irrelevant or are scholars
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Book Review: Lure of the Social: Encounters with Contemporary Artists Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Sophie Hope
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Book Review: Black Lives and Bathrooms: Racial and Gendered Reactions to Minority Rights Movements Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Dr. Shauntey James
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Artistic Production and (Re) production: Youth Arts Programmes as Enablers of Common Cultural Dispositions Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Frances Howard
Whilst the position of young people as arts consumers has been highly critiqued, the opportunities for young people to be celebrated as entrepreneurial and subcultural arts producers are often overlooked. This article explores the role of young people as agents of creation through arts programmes and the development of ‘common cultural dispositions.’ The framework – Artistic Production and (re)production
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John Locke, Private Property and the Birth of Achieved Celebrity Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Chris Rojek
This article argues that John Locke’s defence of Natural Rights and private property are prerequisites in the rise of Achieved Celebrity. It addresses how the rights of private property are anterior to taking ‘the ordinary citizen’ as an object of attention capital.
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Alexander’s Thesis of Value Generalization Reconsidered: Focusing on the 2008 Candlelight Vigils in South Korea Cultural Sociology (IF 1.429) Pub Date : 2022-02-27 Jongryul Choi
This article aims to reconsider Jeffrey C. Alexander’s thesis of ‘value generalization.’ I first review Alexander’s thesis of value generalization by tracking its origin to Weber’s value analysis, and then point out that norms occupy an ‘ambiguous’ status in Alexander’s model of value generalization. Further, I present an alternative that provides inner structures of not only values but also norms