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Abstract: Abstract This paper argues that the philosophy of Hegel exposes a fundamental and damaging bias in the field of Celebrity Studies. This bias takes the shape of privileging questions of techne over form. The dominant paradigm in the field is here called Triangulation. The paper describes this paradigm and critically evaluates it in terms of adequacy. Hegel’s concept of World Historical Individuals is discussed in order to show that the types of celebrity typically examined under the domain of Triangulation do not constitute authentic celebrity. The paper ends with a comparison of form and techne as instruments in the analysis of fame. PubDate: 2023-12-01
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Abstract: Abstract This article explores the dilemmas and challenges of minority creative workers in the cultural industries in settler-colonial/postcolonial contexts. More specifically, it sheds light on how minority actors perceive their involvement at such a sensitive and precarious juncture. To that end, it examines the impact of the roles these actors play and the genres in which they are typecast, experiencing the intersection between their national identity, professional interests and the hegemonic narratives in films and TV series. The settler-colonial/postcolonial context allows us to ascertain to what extent and how this context manifests itself in the cultural industries and impacts the challenges and burdens that creative workers endure. We utilize the unique Israeli-Palestinian reality in which cultural products, such as films and series, are important tools of symbolic domination and legitimacy, in order to uncover important but hidden aspects of the complex systemic violence prevalent in the cultural industries. Thus, we provide a unique prism into the human ramifications of the audiovisual industries in conflict zones and allow a glimpse into the symbolic construction and dissemination of hegemonic narratives and their use for global branding. PubDate: 2023-12-01
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Abstract: Abstract We have studied the operation of the male gaze in the aesthetic evaluation of contemporary artistic photographs containing explicit male and female nudity among heterosexual men and women. Apart from explicit evaluations, we also tracked the time it takes respondents to express their opinion as an indicator of cognitive deliberation, to see to what extent expressed opinions rely on nondeclarative inclinations or rather declarative considerations. We find that both men and women aesthetically prefer female nudity–in line with the male gaze–but men’s preference is more outspoken. Moreover, people’s values affect evaluation as well, with sexual conservativeness lowering the liking of artistic nudity in general and artistic sympathies increasing appreciation of male nudity in particular. Although neither respondent gender, nor sexually conservative values affect response time, people with more sympathetic values towards the arts think longer when assessing the beauty of male nudity. Our findings indicate that both the male gaze and sexual conservativeness operate as nondeclarative frames of reference that lead to routine reactions in aesthetic appreciation of artistic nudity, but values of sympathy for the arts operate as a form of declarative personal culture, which leads to a cognitive effort to overrule the male gaze. PubDate: 2023-12-01
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Abstract: Abstract In this paper, I will explore love as a universe of meaning constituted at the crossroads of cultural patterns and actors’ biographical experiences. Universes of meaning provide a structure of cognitive pre-selections. While the social in general is composed of a multitude of universes of meaning, they belong to the public. Romantic relationships are private and enable privacy. I will (1) propose a definition of love and a framework that serves to ensure its theoretical validity. I will then (2) analytically deconstruct the unity of communication, interaction, eroticism, and emotionality as love’s different media of experience and explore their self-referential functionality. PubDate: 2023-09-29
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Abstract: Abstract Much of the cultural sociology literature has noted how actions are justified by citing available cultural resources, but few have examined how and why a particular order of worth is accepted while another is rejected at the individual level. In this paper, we address this research gap by examining how social workers in Shanghai understand their choice of a career that offers a low salary and lack of advancement opportunities while continuing to resist strong neoliberal discourses. Based on in-depth interviews with veteran social workers and social work students, the study reveals three micro-processes that reposition the orders of worth: (1) acknowledging the negative consequences of a competing worth; (2) applying an alternative worth as a solution to the problems of a dominant worth; and, (3) aligning with the dominant worth by showing compensatory outcomes of adopting the alternative worth. Social workers leverage humanism to deal with the “dark side” of market worth—a transformative strategy for self-preservation, a safeguard from the crises of modern life, and an adaptive and alternative pathway in a market society, which then sustains their commitment to the work. The study points out that those daily on-the-ground interactions are key to questioning and sustaining our individual orders of worth. PubDate: 2023-09-29
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Abstract: Abstract This article proposes a performative model for the interpretation of cinematic realism. It theorizes “fusion” as a performative achievement in which audiences interpret a cinematic performance’s underlying “realism”, or collective representations. It also conceptualizes the “cinematic gap” as an experiential space of both deep cinematic immersion—and detachment from one’s own lived experience. Using the case study Parasite, the 2019 South Korean satire on class disparities, this paper answers the question: How can cinematic performances enable audiences to experience fusion with realism, despite the cinematic gap' How can Parasite effect deeper understandings of class relations' It answers these questions by way of three theoretical elaborations on the cultural mechanisms of cinematic performance: First, there are “two levels of fusion”. The first level resides at the level of aesthetic experience. The second level goes beyond aesthetic surface and reaches collective representations, or “realism”. Second, the elements of performance can be organized according to a typology that effects varying forms and degrees of realism. Third, the organization of performative elements create various cinematic gap “sizes” —the larger the gap, the further the cinematic performance distances viewers from their lived experience. In the case of Parasite, it is shown that a cinematic gap—a sense of distance from lived experience—can actually bridge viewers to deeper understandings of social reality in unexpected ways. PubDate: 2023-09-09
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Abstract: Abstract Work on stratification beliefs expects disadvantaged individuals to believe less strongly in meritocracy because they are more likely to observe structural barriers to opportunity, and because meritocratic ideology runs counter to their self-interest. If they embrace meritocracy, they are understood as victims of a system-justifying ideology. By conceptualising belief formation as a cultural process, I argue that meritocracy belief among the disadvantaged may simply be pragmatic, rather than irrational. I use a narrative identity lens to analyse interviews with forty-one Singaporean youth, arguing that in the absence of other forms of capital, socioeconomically disadvantaged youth draw on narratives of meritocracy and family responsibility to construct agentic selves, telling stories in which they achieve success by relying on the chief resource available to them—themselves. These stories implicitly carry individualistic analyses of inequality, and serve as durable lenses through which disadvantaged youth interpret the successes and failures of those around them. Overall, a narrative lens pushes us to ask what cultural tools are available and useful to individuals in particular settings, and cautions against exporting assumptions about members of a social category beyond the context in which they were developed. PubDate: 2023-09-08
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Abstract: Abstract Previous research conducted in Swedish schools and beyond has shown how newly arrived migrant students are excluded by peers from the majority population and by longer-term residents. The novelty of the present article is its focus on the opposite: how peer interaction between newly arrived and other students arises in superdiverse school settings and what this interaction means for newly arrived migrant students. A multidimensional theoretical perspective with a focus on social interaction within school is utilized to illuminate the drama of social life. Ideals of the civil sphere, superdiversity, habitus and conviviality are combined, the goal being to create links between macro- and micro-levels. Peer interaction is analyzed as meaningful per se, rather than as an exchange value. This is valuable from a subjective perspective in relation to the notion that being ordinary is a key to belonging. The analysis shows the lived interconnectedness between ideals, institutions, practices, and individuals’ life experiences. The data are drawn from ethnographic fieldwork undertaken during one academic year in two middle schools [högstadiet] and 42 interviews with newly arrived migrant students and school staff in Sweden. PubDate: 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1057/s41290-022-00154-5
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Abstract: Abstract In light of the incessant passage of ideas, images, cultural products, and people across cultures and borders, this research—located in the third wave of memory studies—examines how foreign events are imported and incorporated in national political rhetoric. Examining speeches made by American presidents (1945–2020), this analysis shows that the practice of importing events is affected by time, structure, and meaning-making processes. First, imported events are affected by epochal considerations and attest to the power of the present. Second, imported events are presented during non-commemorative occasions and are evoked together with national past events. Third, whether through legitimization, confirmation, or appropriation, imported events are constructed for the sake of enhancing the American nation and affirming its greatness. Imported events, thus, provide new strategies of nationalism in globalized cultures. At the same time, imported events—by now memories—are sought after and by mere appearance pierce the heart of the nation. With this research, we contribute to core questions in collective memory, tying political, cultural, and social considerations with regard to the continuing transformation of collective memories in a constantly changing world. PubDate: 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1057/s41290-022-00157-2
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Abstract: Abstract This article addresses a collective protest triggered by the Hong Kong Palace Museum in 2016–2017. Conventional approaches to social movement studies, such as Marxism, rational choice theory, and social psychological paradigms, focus on political opportunity structure, rational choice, and framing and collective identity. This research adopts a new cultural sociological approach, namely cultural pragmatics and iconicity, to scrutinize how an iconic performance of the protest reconstructed the meaning of the museum, turned it into an icon of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) authoritarian power, and channeled some Hong Kong people’s anti-China sentiment to the museum. Since performativity of the icon and iconicity in the performance played equal roles in this transformative process, we coin a term iconic performance to stress the dual processes and integrate the merits of these two theories. Although cultural pragmatics and iconicity have been used to study diversified phenomena, they have not drawn serious attention from social movement scholars. This research attempts to enrich scholars’ understanding of these theories through a Hong Kong case. PubDate: 2023-08-28 DOI: 10.1057/s41290-023-00198-1
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