Pub Date : 2023-03-10DOI: 10.1057/s41290-023-00188-3
Philip Smith
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Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1057/s41290-023-00189-2
Polina Zavershinskaia
This paper considers the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on right-wing populists' constructions of German collective identity. In their "Covid-19 crisis" narratives, German populists attempted to rearrange the discursive and institutional space of the German civil sphere through a symbolic inversion of the heroic signifier and legitimization of violence against perceived enemies. To analyze such discursive dynamics, this paper utilizes multilayered narrative analysis, drawing on the synthesis of civil sphere theory, the anthropological conceptualization of the relationship between mimetic crisis and symbolic substitution of violence and the sociological narrative theory of the sacralization and desacralization of heroism. This analysis structures the investigation of positive and negative symbolic constructions of German collective identity by German right-wing populist narratives. The analysis shows that although German right-wing populists are politically peripheral, their affective, antagonistic and anti-elite narratives contribute to the semantic erosion of the liberal democratic core of the German civil sphere. This in turn reduces the ability of democratic institutions to control violence and leads to the restriction of civil solidarity.
Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1057/s41290-023-00189-2.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1057/s41290-023-00185-6
C. Goldberg
{"title":"From multiculturalism to antisemitism? Revisiting the Jewish question in America","authors":"C. Goldberg","doi":"10.1057/s41290-023-00185-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-023-00185-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"11 1","pages":"269-292"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43269371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-28DOI: 10.1057/s41290-023-00184-7
J. Alexander, T. Adams
{"title":"The return of antisemitism? Waves of societalization and what conditions them","authors":"J. Alexander, T. Adams","doi":"10.1057/s41290-023-00184-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-023-00184-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"11 1","pages":"251-268"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42217494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-11DOI: 10.1057/s41290-023-00186-5
Maja Gildin Zuckerman, J. Feldt
{"title":"The eternally rescued: the Jews and the boundaries of Danish civility","authors":"Maja Gildin Zuckerman, J. Feldt","doi":"10.1057/s41290-023-00186-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-023-00186-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"11 1","pages":"293-315"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41665960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-10DOI: 10.1057/s41290-022-00180-3
M. Fournier
{"title":"Book Review of P. Smith’s Durkheim and After","authors":"M. Fournier","doi":"10.1057/s41290-022-00180-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-022-00180-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42695325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-08DOI: 10.1057/s41290-023-00187-4
{"title":"The American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Volume 10 (2022)","authors":"","doi":"10.1057/s41290-023-00187-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-023-00187-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136176583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-21DOI: 10.1057/s41290-022-00182-1
S. Lukes
{"title":"Correction: The Winding Path, Smith, P. (2020) Durkheim and After: The Durkheimian Tradition, 1893–2020. Cambridge: Polity","authors":"S. Lukes","doi":"10.1057/s41290-022-00182-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-022-00182-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"11 1","pages":"417 - 417"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41930267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-18DOI: 10.1057/s41290-022-00183-0
Maria Törnqvist
{"title":"Intimate strangers: theorizing bodily knowledge in shared housing","authors":"Maria Törnqvist","doi":"10.1057/s41290-022-00183-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-022-00183-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44837823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1057/s41290-021-00144-z
Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky
In this article, I examine the case of a viral film entitled "Plandemic," its sequel, and the epidemiologist that is its main subject, and develop a cultural sociology of conspiracy theorizing through the concept of "performative conspiracy." I argue that the Plandemic case represents a cultural performance within the (ongoing) serious social drama of the Covid-19 pandemic. I focus primarily on the "alternative" narrative put forth by the Plandemic case; however, the (Western/US) "mainstream" narrative becomes clear as well. Both call upon the same sets of binary oppositions, chief among them, science vs. blind faith, truth vs. deception, and evidence vs. supposition. Audiences, who are themselves fragmented and differentiated, are exposed to multiple narrative paths. Within the mainstream, they encounter an apocalyptic-turned romantic story, in which science, evidence, and the truth, the sacred trio, will lift humanity out of perilous danger. Plandemic's alternative narrative begins in a tragic tone and builds apocalyptically into a tale of terror, waged by the very same forces of science, truth, and evidence, to create a "plague of corruption" that will "kill millions." To conclude, I reflect on the potential implications of the increasing popularity of conspiracy theorizing about Covid-19.
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