Consecrating and Desecrating Elite Communities: Fearing and Dealing with Social Deviance in Sweden’s Wealthiest Neighborhood

IF 1.4 1区 社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY Cultural Sociology Pub Date : 2021-11-28 DOI:10.1177/17499755211053172
Mikael Holmqvist
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In this article I report observations from an ethnographic study of a Swedish economic elite community, including interviews with residents and service staff, and participant observations in various social contexts stretching over a period of five years that can contribute to an understanding of how elite communities respond to potential social deviance among its members, such as feelings of insufficiency and stress, thus trying to avoid any ‘desecration’ of their social and cultural capital. Specifically, I examine how the practices through which desecration is avoided, for example the exclusion of unwanted members, interplay in the further consecration of the communities, thus maintaining and strengthening elites’ status and standing, Studying the problems and difficulties experienced by elites in their neighborhood settings, and how they try to manage them, is potentially an important step forward to better analyze and understand the way powerful groups in contemporary society maintain and strengthen their privileges and power.
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圣化与亵渎精英社区:瑞典最富有社区对社会越轨行为的恐惧与处理
在本文中,我报告了对瑞典经济精英社区的民族志研究的观察结果,包括对居民和服务人员的采访,以及在各种社会背景下长达五年的参与者观察,这有助于理解精英社区如何应对其成员之间潜在的社会偏差,例如不足和压力的感觉,从而试图避免任何“亵渎”他们的社会和文化资本。具体来说,我研究了避免亵渎的做法,例如排斥不受欢迎的成员,如何在社区的进一步奉献中相互作用,从而维持和加强精英的地位和地位,研究精英在社区环境中遇到的问题和困难,以及他们如何试图管理这些问题和困难,对于更好地分析和理解当代社会权势集团维持和加强其特权和权力的方式可能是重要的一步。
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Cultural Sociology
Cultural Sociology SOCIOLOGY-
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期刊介绍: Cultural Sociology publishes empirically oriented, theoretically sophisticated, methodologically rigorous papers, which explore from a broad set of sociological perspectives a diverse range of socio-cultural forces, phenomena, institutions and contexts. The objective of Cultural Sociology is to publish original articles which advance the field of cultural sociology and the sociology of culture. The journal seeks to consolidate, develop and promote the arena of sociological understandings of culture, and is intended to be pivotal in defining both what this arena is like currently and what it could become in the future. Cultural Sociology will publish innovative, sociologically-informed work concerned with cultural processes and artefacts, broadly defined.
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