Pub Date : 2021-08-07DOI: 10.1057/s41290-021-00138-x
N. Hanrahan
{"title":"Music and democracy in America: historical perspectives on ‘democratization’ in the digital age","authors":"N. Hanrahan","doi":"10.1057/s41290-021-00138-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-021-00138-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"10 1","pages":"206 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2021-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44683310","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 : 2021-08-04DOI: 10.1057/s41290-021-00137-y
Dominik Želinský
{"title":"The music of the dying class: jazz as the impure sacred in Stalinist Czechoslovakia","authors":"Dominik Želinský","doi":"10.1057/s41290-021-00137-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-021-00137-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"10 1","pages":"248 - 264"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2021-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48398648","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 : 2021-07-19DOI: 10.1057/s41290-021-00139-w
Nathalie Heinich
This paper introduces the French sociology of art to English-speaking scholars. Its story begins with a shift from the humanities to social sciences through the use of empirical methods, and a change in focus from artworks to the social conditions of their production, mediation, and reception. This meant, initially, a positivist turn, relying on a strong explanatory and determinist paradigm using social origins, positions in a “field,” hidden interests or types of “capitals” as basic and unquestioned tools. Then an interactionist turn appeared, based on the observation of actual interactions between various actors within “art worlds” or “artistic fields.” Then an interpretivist turn happened, addressing the collective representations of art and artists, the values according to which people valuate artworks, and the hierarchy and classifications of artistic genres. Finally, a pragmatic turn introduced a general sociological trend investigating the actual processes owing to which artworks circulate, how things become endowed with the status of an artwork, as well as the conditions and meaning of artistic recognition. Because such issues cannot be fully addressed through the lens of a standard explanatory sociology, this article calls for a descriptive, pragmatic, qualitative, interpretivist, and value-neutral turn, inducing a new French sociology of art.
{"title":"The three generations of the French sociology of art","authors":"Nathalie Heinich","doi":"10.1057/s41290-021-00139-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-021-00139-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper introduces the French sociology of art to English-speaking scholars. Its story begins with a shift from the humanities to social sciences through the use of empirical methods, and a change in focus from artworks to the social conditions of their production, mediation, and reception. This meant, initially, a positivist turn, relying on a strong explanatory and determinist paradigm using social origins, positions in a “field,” hidden interests or types of “capitals” as basic and unquestioned tools. Then an interactionist turn appeared, based on the observation of actual interactions between various actors within “art worlds” or “artistic fields.” Then an interpretivist turn happened, addressing the collective representations of art and artists, the values according to which people valuate artworks, and the hierarchy and classifications of artistic genres. Finally, a pragmatic turn introduced a general sociological trend investigating the actual processes owing to which artworks circulate, how things become endowed with the status of an artwork, as well as the conditions and meaning of artistic recognition. Because such issues cannot be fully addressed through the lens of a standard explanatory sociology, this article calls for a descriptive, pragmatic, qualitative, interpretivist, and value-neutral turn, inducing a new French sociology of art.</p>","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2021-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138536530","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 : 2021-06-16DOI: 10.1057/s41290-021-00136-z
Elisabeth Becker
{"title":"Incivility and danger: theorizing a Muslim undercaste in Europe","authors":"Elisabeth Becker","doi":"10.1057/s41290-021-00136-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-021-00136-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"10 1","pages":"398 - 431"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2021-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43188777","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 : 2021-06-16DOI: 10.1057/s41290-021-00134-1
A. Whitaker, F. Greenland
{"title":"Theory of an art market scandal: artistic integrity and financial speculation in the Inigo Philbrick case","authors":"A. Whitaker, F. Greenland","doi":"10.1057/s41290-021-00134-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-021-00134-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"10 1","pages":"225 - 247"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2021-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47229660","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}
{"title":"Correction to: Exploring the sacrality of reading as a social practice","authors":"María Angélica Thumala Olave","doi":"10.1057/s41290-021-00133-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-021-00133-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-021-00133-2</p>","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"122 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2021-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138543393","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 : 2021-04-16DOI: 10.1057/s41290-021-00131-4
Daniel Allington
Bourdieu argues that legitimate or ‘highbrow’ cultural products depend for their appreciation on a style of consumption grounded in cultural knowledge acquired through formal education. To explore this idea, all available customer reviews of two Man Booker prize-winning novels—Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss (2006) and Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger (2008)—were collected from the Amazon.co.uk website. Analysis of these reviews focussed on styles of cultural consumption, as implied by the relationship between the words in the reviews and the numeric ‘star ratings’ that accompany those reviews. Positive reviews resemble discourse on the same novels by what Bourdieu calls ‘professional interpreters’ or ‘professional commentator[s] on texts’ in their tendency to interpret formal features in relation to political and philosophical themes, while negative reviews instead express disappointment that these novels do not measure up to ‘middlebrow’ standards, highlighting the novels’ lack of characteristics apparently considered conducive to readerly enjoyment. Mentions of the Man Booker Prize itself were associated with negative evaluations of both novels, often featuring in expressions of confusion or anger.
{"title":"Customer reviews of ‘highbrow’ literature: a comparative reception study of The Inheritance of Loss and The White Tiger","authors":"Daniel Allington","doi":"10.1057/s41290-021-00131-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-021-00131-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Bourdieu argues that legitimate or ‘highbrow’ cultural products depend for their appreciation on a style of consumption grounded in cultural knowledge acquired through formal education. To explore this idea, all available customer reviews of two Man Booker prize-winning novels—Kiran Desai’s <i>The Inheritance of Loss</i> (2006) and Aravind Adiga’s <i>The White Tiger</i> (2008)—were collected from the Amazon.co.uk website. Analysis of these reviews focussed on styles of cultural consumption, as implied by the relationship between the words in the reviews and the numeric ‘star ratings’ that accompany those reviews. Positive reviews resemble discourse on the same novels by what Bourdieu calls ‘professional interpreters’ or ‘professional commentator[s] on texts’ in their tendency to interpret formal features in relation to political and philosophical themes, while negative reviews instead express disappointment that these novels do not measure up to ‘middlebrow’ standards, highlighting the novels’ lack of characteristics apparently considered conducive to readerly enjoyment. Mentions of the Man Booker Prize itself were associated with negative evaluations of both novels, often featuring in expressions of confusion or anger.</p>","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2021-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138536529","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 : 2021-04-08DOI: 10.1057/s41290-021-00130-5
John M. Vana
{"title":"Knowing through feeling: the aesthetic structure of a novel and the iconic experience of reading","authors":"John M. Vana","doi":"10.1057/s41290-021-00130-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-021-00130-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"9 1","pages":"211 - 241"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2021-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45934933","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 : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1057/s41290-021-00132-3
M. A. Thumala Olave
{"title":"Exploring the sacrality of reading as a social practice","authors":"M. A. Thumala Olave","doi":"10.1057/s41290-021-00132-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-021-00132-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"9 1","pages":"99 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58570397","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 : 2021-03-08DOI: 10.1057/s41290-021-00128-z
Álvaro Santana-Acuña
{"title":"Reviewing strategies and the normalization of uncertain texts","authors":"Álvaro Santana-Acuña","doi":"10.1057/s41290-021-00128-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-021-00128-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"76 1","pages":"269 - 292"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2021-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58570385","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}
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