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Authors:Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, Ming-Cheng M Lo, Marcus Morgan, Christopher Thorpe, Rin Ushiyama Abstract: Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Cultural Sociology PubDate: 2022-06-20T06:03:11Z DOI: 10.1177/17499755221098834
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Authors:Stribor Kuric Kardelis Abstract: Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. 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 Spanish theatre performers. I will start by defining the dimensions of the dramatic body to focus afterwards on its physicality, image and aesthetics, as malleable forms of capital. Despite their expertise in their trade, performers are highly conditioned by their body image due to a continuous exposure to the expectations of the audience and their own. I will explore the potentiality of the performers’ marked bodies through the characters they are able to portray and the socio-cultural schemes inscribed in their bodies. Citation: Cultural Sociology PubDate: 2022-06-10T07:27:23Z DOI: 10.1177/17499755211070142
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Authors:Kaisa Torkkeli, Johanna Mäkelä, Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen Abstract: Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. 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 foodwork as referring to a bundle of cooking-related practices. The coordination of foodwork is explored through material arrangements, temporal activities and interpersonal relationships in the theoretical part of the study. The empirical analysis utilises multiform qualitative data consisting of cooking videos shot by five Finnish families for one week and interviews with the families. The concept of adjustments is developed through the data analysis to provide a nuanced understanding of how parents reflectively and unreflectively integrate their foodwork into inevitable ongoing changes of everyday life. The study elaborates on the coordination of parental foodwork defining six adjustment themes: appropriateness, sequences, synchronisation, duties, significance and acceptance. Themes illustrate continuous, temporal, material and interpersonal adjustments of foodwork. As a result, the study constructs the comprehensive understanding of parental foodwork by providing novel, theoretically and empirically elaborated and interrelated concepts for future studies. The concept of foodwork and themes of adjustment enable a topical and multidimensional approach to identify and interpret the complex coordination of practices, what, for example, the change towards healthier and more sustainable cooking and eating can provoke in households and a family life. Citation: Cultural Sociology PubDate: 2022-06-09T09:08:43Z DOI: 10.1177/17499755221096647
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Authors:Anastasia Loukianov Abstract: Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Cultural Sociology PubDate: 2022-06-09T08:42:26Z DOI: 10.1177/17499755221092888
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Authors:Laura Clancy Abstract: Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. 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 over the construction of, and responses to, forms of culture (1984). This cultural intermediary role is significantly classed, where it is Royal Correspondents who demonstrate the appropriate ‘capital’ (Bourdieu, 1984) who get access to the most exclusive stories. The research finds that, because of the general secrecy around royal news, Royal Correspondents rely heavily upon elite networks and contacts, a practice that produces ‘homophilic’ (Fincham, 2019) tendencies in reporting as well as a hierarchical and nepotistic structure based around those with the most exclusive access. This creates intersectional classed inequalities between those Royal Correspondents who have elite contacts and work for elite institutions, and those who do not. Such exceptionality in access to royal news means that Royal Correspondents are not necessarily disturbing the ideological bases of monarchical power. Rather, they function in service of reproducing the classed power of the monarchical institution. Citation: Cultural Sociology PubDate: 2022-06-09T08:39:07Z DOI: 10.1177/17499755221092810
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Authors:Barbara Grüning Abstract: Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article examines the relationship between music and politics in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), departing from the crucial role the State played there in organizing, and controlling all fields of cultural production. Much of the literature on the subject either depicts the interaction between the State and artists as unidirectional or represents their relationship as highly conflictual due to contrasting understandings of culture and its functions. In both cases, this tendency to dichotomize makes it hard to explain, for instance, how music genres that had arisen in Western countries could flourish in the GDR despite the official understanding of ‘socialist music’ propagated by the Socialist Unity Party (SED). Conversely, by adopting a field perspective, this article aims to highlight how musicians, the State, and Party representatives competed to shape the symbolic space of the GDR musical field. Hence, instead of understanding Party and State decisions as merely applications of ideological principles, a field perspective enables us to consider them as resulting from strategies, depending on both the objective position occupied in the musical field and its spatial-material dimension, and as aimed at maintaining their own power within it. The political elite succeeded, then, in actualizing its strategy of legitimating emerging music genres which were potentially disrupting until it was able to provide musicians with physical cultural spaces for developing their careers and, at the same time, expressing criticisms. On the other hand, from the 1950s, localized music scenes were created which proposed an alternative understanding of music to the official one without, however, refusing the core principles which structured the GDR musical field. After the end of the 1970s, though, new music scenes were formed which positioned themselves outside the institutionalized music spaces and places, refusing in this way the rules of the GDR musical field and questioning its very existence. Citation: Cultural Sociology PubDate: 2022-06-08T10:21:13Z DOI: 10.1177/17499755221078713
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Authors:Dominik Zelinsky Abstract: Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Cultural Sociology PubDate: 2022-06-01T06:44:33Z DOI: 10.1177/17499755221097938
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Authors:Rima Saini Abstract: Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. 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 socioeconomic markers, may be classified as such. Beyond existing research which has long established the dual material and symbolic nature of class, and the corresponding ‘fuzziness’ of class subjectivity, for the population of interest this can be attributed in large part to: (i) the rapid upward intergenerational social mobility of South Asian groups which is seen to defy British-specific forms of stratification and class reproduction and (ii) the racialisation of class where the symbolic power and subjective salience of middle-classness is mediated through Whiteness. In establishing this, this article argues for further theoretical and analytical reflection on the racialisation of class taking into account the ethnoracial specificities of culturally diverse ethnic minority populations. Citation: Cultural Sociology PubDate: 2022-06-01T06:18:56Z DOI: 10.1177/17499755221076388
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Authors:Erwin Dekker, Julien Gradoz Abstract: Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article utilizes a novel empirical strategy, the study of exemplars, to investigate the transformation of quality conventions in the film industry during the 1960s and 1970s. Exemplars are films or directors which are used as a reference point (focal points) in the evaluation of other movies or directors. We use an original dataset of movie reviews to examine the changing quality conventions and demonstrate that during the investigated period, movies are increasingly treated as singular artistic products. This shift, around the rise of auteur theory and New Hollywood, has been analyzed by others but we provide a more fine-grained analysis of the transformation and are able to demonstrate the neglected importance of cultural trade: the import of European films. We provide evidence that these changes lead to a period of increased quality uncertainty, before a new quality regime becomes established. We explore how such qualitative changes in the market could impact industrial organization and product differentiation in the movie industry, and demonstrate how the analysis of such qualitative changes can complement existing quantitative studies of the movie industry and the determinants of film success, both economically and artistically. Citation: Cultural Sociology PubDate: 2022-05-28T06:10:33Z DOI: 10.1177/17499755211070137
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Authors:Daniel Wuebben Abstract: Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Cultural Sociology PubDate: 2022-05-21T04:52:09Z DOI: 10.1177/17499755221083142
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Authors:Tomás Undurraga, Pedro Güell, Mario Fergnani Abstract: Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. 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 the mega-fires, and the framing contests used to interpret the fire crisis. It pays special attention to the controversies that erupted over the foreign planes that were sent to help fight the fires: the American Supertanker and the Russian Ilyushin. We argue that press coverage of the mega-fires transformed a natural-social phenomenon into an emotionally charged political drama in which the Supertanker airplane was signified as the hero, and the Chilean government the villain. The Supertanker played a condensation symbol role. It was cast in the media as an external hero promising to control the fires that had overwhelmed local capabilities, and to overcome a government that was portrayed as inefficient and late to respond. The media functioned as an echo chamber for the cultural battle between the government and opposition. This article contributes to a cultural sociology of disasters, paying special attention to the role played by the symbolic representation of nature and socio-technical artefacts in political disputes. Citation: Cultural Sociology PubDate: 2022-05-10T07:11:10Z DOI: 10.1177/17499755211067642
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Authors:Fabian Holt Abstract: Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. 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 suppressing new beliefs that could disrupt the norms of their field' The sociology of the arts provides an illustrative case. This subfield has historically ignored environmental factors, but there is mounting pressure for correcting this oversight and rethinking the beliefs and norms of the field. This article argues that climate change is relevant to the sociology of the arts and that this subfield can become more aligned with the geo-ecological turn in sociology and the SSH. This turn is part of a wider epochal and existential transformation in public consciousness in response to broad changes in society and nature. Changing beliefs about the arts are therefore not explained by endogenous dynamics in the arts field. The article provides a meta-analysis of the geo-ecological turn in sociology and in interdisciplinary arts and cultural research where pioneering arguments have emerged. The analysis uses theory of disciplinary transformation in the sociology of science to analyze largely implicit sociological claims for a transformation of ‘normal science’ beliefs about (1) aesthetic exceptionalism, illustrated by a new conception of music as a study object, and (2) the role of the arts in economic growth. Some implications for the sociology of the arts are considered. Citation: Cultural Sociology PubDate: 2022-04-21T01:59:45Z DOI: 10.1177/17499755211072821
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Authors:Sophie Hope Abstract: Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Cultural Sociology PubDate: 2022-03-25T05:28:29Z DOI: 10.1177/17499755221083571
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Authors:Dr. Shauntey James Abstract: Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Cultural Sociology PubDate: 2022-03-23T02:05:09Z DOI: 10.1177/17499755221082378
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Authors:Frances Howard Abstract: Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. 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 – draws on and combines analytical insights and theoretical concepts from Paul Willis and Pierre Bourdieu in order to argue that young people both consume and produce artistic practices, which then leads to a reproduced social hierarchy. This combination gives additional insight into culturally reproductive cycles, which remain problematically entrenched with social class disadvantage. An ethnographic methodology is reported, which enabled an in-depth exploration of everyday creativity, self-efficacy, self-identity, and forms of resistance for the young people in this study. However, I argue that whilst Artistic Production offers hopes of transformation, in particular for working-class and marginalised groups, ‘positional suffering’ and unconscious mechanisms of reproduction were also apparent. Citation: Cultural Sociology PubDate: 2022-03-16T04:38:26Z DOI: 10.1177/17499755211066371
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Authors:Chris Rojek Abstract: Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. 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. Citation: Cultural Sociology PubDate: 2022-03-10T05:43:19Z DOI: 10.1177/17499755211051835
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Authors:Jongryul Choi Abstract: Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. 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 and goals, and places semantic and moral tension between values, norms, and goals at the center of cultural-sociological analysis. Specifically, I propose to define values, norms, and goals as a system of ‘axiological-existential symbols,’ a system of ‘moral-aesthetic symbols,’ and a system of ‘instrumental-strategic symbols’ as well as to bring back the generalization-specification scheme to the hierarchy of values, norms, and goals. I develop my own thesis of norm generalization, apply it to the 2008 candlelight vigils in South Korea, demonstrate the vigils as an analytic illustration of norm generalization, and then analyze why norm generalization occurred instead of value generalization. Lastly, I present two contributions, analytic as well as normative, of my study to Alexander’s thesis of value generalization. Citation: Cultural Sociology PubDate: 2022-02-28T05:06:22Z DOI: 10.1177/17499755211064137
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Authors:Carl Mallett Abstract: Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Cultural Sociology PubDate: 2022-02-08T08:12:46Z DOI: 10.1177/17499755211066796
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Authors:Carolina Bandinelli, Alessandro Gandini Abstract: Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. Dating apps promise a ‘digital fix’ to the ‘messy’ matter of love by means of datafication and algorithmic matching, realising a platformisation of romance commonly understood through notions of a market’s rationality and efficiency. Reflecting on the findings of a small-scale qualitative research on the use of dating apps among young adults in London, we problematise this view and argue that the specific form of marketisation articulated by dating apps is entrepreneurial in kind, whereby individuals act as brands facing the structural uncertainty of interacting with ‘quasi-strangers’. In so doing, we argue, dating app users enact a Luhmanian notion of interpersonal trust, built on the assessment of the risk of interacting with unfamiliar others that is typical of digitally mediated contexts dominated by reputational logics. From a sociocultural perspective, dating apps emerge as sociotechnical apparatuses that remediate the demand to rationally choose a partner while at the same time reproducing the (im)possibility of doing so. In this respect, far from offering a new form of efficiency, they (re)produce the ontological uncertainty (Illouz, 2019) that characterises lovers as entrepreneurs. Citation: Cultural Sociology PubDate: 2022-01-10T09:25:36Z DOI: 10.1177/17499755211051559
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