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Preaching to the converted: Cultural intermediaries and cultural consumer behavior 向皈依者宣讲：文化中介与文化消费行为

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Poetics

Pub Date : 2026-03-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102088

Ea Hoppe Blaabæk

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Mapping symbolic ties in U.S. sociology: Evidence from doctoral dissertation vocabularies 绘制美国社会学中的符号关系：来自博士论文词汇的证据

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Poetics

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102077

Alex Xiaoqin Yan , Honglin Bao , Tom R. Leppard , Andrew P. Davis

This paper investigates the cultural ties in U.S. sociology defined by the shared usage of cultural symbols across schools. Cultural symbols are operationalized as research focuses from the dissertations of a school’s graduates. We construct a unique pairwise dataset including 6,441 school pairs across 114 schools, detailing their dyadic relationships (e.g., geographical co-residence) and cultural proximity inferred from dissertations. We build a socio-cultural network where a school sends a tie to another when their proximity is sufficiently high. We design computational linguistic methods to identify gatekeeping symbols co-used by reciprocally connected schools within the same cultural niche. Our findings reveal two major school clusters and their research trajectories, with one representing dominant trends in relatively theoretically oriented areas like sociology of culture, economic life, organizations, and politics and the other a more explicit focus on social problems. We further discern key determinants that shape cultural convergence and distinction, including school prestige, geographical co-residence, and institutional classification. In sum, our study proposes a pipeline for measuring cultural ties across schools and understanding the factors that influence the development of duality between schools and schools of thought.

本文探讨了美国社会学中的文化联系，这种文化联系是由各个学校共同使用的文化符号所定义的。文化符号从学校毕业生的论文中作为研究重点被操作化。我们构建了一个独特的成对数据集，包括114所学校的6,441对学校，详细介绍了它们的二元关系（例如，地理共同居住）和从论文中推断的文化接近性。我们建立了一个社会文化网络，当一所学校与另一所学校的距离足够高时，它就会向另一所学校发送联系。我们设计了计算语言学方法来识别相同文化利基中相互连接的学校共同使用的守门人符号。我们的研究结果揭示了两个主要的学校集群及其研究轨迹，其中一个代表了相对理论导向的领域的主导趋势，如文化社会学、经济生活、组织和政治，另一个更明确地关注社会问题。我们进一步辨别塑造文化融合和差异的关键决定因素，包括学校声望、地理共同居住和制度分类。总之，我们的研究提出了一个管道来衡量跨学校的文化联系，并了解影响学校和思想流派之间二元性发展的因素。

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The conservative revolution revisited: The blending of art and commerce in four Western publishing fields 保守主义革命再现：艺术与商业在四个西方出版领域的融合

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Poetics

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102076

Matthias Kuppler , Henrik Fürst

The publishing industry underwent a profound process of commercialization over the last 50 years. Pierre Bourdieu characterized this commercialization process as a conservative revolution that entrenched existing power relations between corporate and independent publishing houses and submitted editorial strategies to an uncompromising economic logic that is incompatible with artistic concerns. In this study, we revisit the conservative revolution thesis to examine its consequences for the reconfiguration of cultural fields and artistic practices. We draw on detailed information on N = 293 publishing houses and class-specific multiple correspondence analysis to examine the structure and editorial strategies of contemporary publishing fields in France, Germany, Sweden, and the United States. Our findings support but also elaborate upon the conservative revolution thesis. We document oligopolistic field structures in all four countries. A small number of media corporations controls the mass market, monopolizes access to the fields’ economic and symbolic rewards, and marginalizes independent publishers into niche markets. We do not find complete submission to an economic logic but, instead, a strategic blending of art and commerce among corporate and independent publishers. The corporations, in particular, adopted hybrid editorial strategies that combine literary and commercial genres to cement their dominance, revealing how the fields’ transformation ultimately conserved pre-existing hierarchies. These findings have broader implications for theorizing on cultural fields. They suggest that artistic and economic logics are not incompatible and that cultural producers across various field positions successfully combine artistic and commercial strategies.

在过去的50年里，出版业经历了一个深刻的商业化过程。皮埃尔·布迪厄（Pierre Bourdieu）将这种商业化过程描述为一场保守的革命，它巩固了企业和独立出版社之间现有的权力关系，并将编辑策略提交给与艺术关注不相容的不妥协的经济逻辑。在本研究中，我们重新审视保守主义革命理论，以考察其对文化领域和艺术实践重构的影响。我们利用N = 293家出版社的详细信息和特定类别的多重对应分析来研究法国、德国、瑞典和美国当代出版领域的结构和编辑策略。我们的研究结果支持但也阐述了保守革命的论点。我们记录了所有四个国家的寡头垄断领域结构。少数媒体公司控制着大众市场，垄断了获得这些领域的经济和象征性奖励的途径，并将独立出版商边缘化，使其进入利基市场。我们没有发现完全服从经济逻辑，相反，在企业和独立出版商之间，艺术和商业的战略融合。特别是，这些公司采用了混合的编辑策略，将文学和商业类型结合起来，以巩固自己的主导地位，这揭示了这些领域的转型最终是如何保持原有的等级制度的。这些发现对文化领域的理论化具有更广泛的意义。他们认为，艺术和经济的逻辑并非不相容，不同领域的文化生产者成功地将艺术和商业战略结合起来。

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Watching scripted fiction: Repertoires of co-viewing, time, and attention to scripted series and movies in Australia 观看有剧本的小说：澳大利亚人对有剧本的电视剧和电影的共同观看、时间和注意力

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Poetics

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102064

Annaliese Grant , Amanda D. Lotz

The experience of watching scripted series and movies has advanced profoundly in recent decades, but little research has investigated the implications for the social role of these forms of media. Drawing on a novel cross-sectional nationally representative survey of 2,020 Australian adults, this study uses latent class analysis to identify four distinct profiles of viewing scripted fiction. Our analysis explores the varied ways adults spend time with scripted content, devote varied levels of attention to that content, and view with others. We find four categories of viewer, with category membership significantly associated with respondent-rated importance of scripted fiction, knowing what to watch before turning on a viewing device, a number of characteristics of preferred content, and living alone. Though other demographic variables were significantly associated with membership in one category, demographic characteristics were not consistently significant across groups, suggesting these may not be the main drivers of viewing behavior.

近几十年来，观看有剧本的电视剧和电影的体验有了长足的进步，但很少有研究调查这些媒体形式对社会角色的影响。根据对2020名澳大利亚成年人进行的一项具有全国代表性的新颖横断面调查，本研究使用潜在类别分析来确定观看脚本小说的四种不同特征。我们的分析探讨了成年人花时间看脚本内容的不同方式，对这些内容投入不同程度的关注，并与他人一起观看。我们发现了四类观众，其中类别成员与受访者认为的脚本小说的重要性显著相关，在打开观看设备之前知道要看什么，喜欢的内容的一些特征，以及独自生活。虽然其他人口统计学变量与某一类别的成员关系显著，但人口统计学特征在不同群体中并不一致，这表明这些可能不是观看行为的主要驱动因素。

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For the greater good? The disputed prestige of private art museum founders in Brazil 为了更大的利益？巴西私人艺术博物馆创始人有争议的声望

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Poetics

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102078

Andrea Rozenbaum, Olav Velthuis

This paper explores how the engagement of economic elites with the arts impacts their legitimisation among art professionals. Drawing from interviews with art curators, gallerists, art critics, art collectors, scholars, artists, and museum directors active in the Brazilian art field, we explore how they perceive the founders of private museums in the country. In many respects, interviewees are critical of the founders, particularly regarding their motivations, taste, and character. In order to exclude museum founders as proper members of the art world, our interviewees draw both moral and symbolic boundaries. This does not prevent them, however, from praising founders for their actual accomplishments. These narratives suggest that while elites may seek prestige enhancement, their perception within the art world remains ambivalent at best. This matters because art professionals function as gatekeepers to the art world, as they facilitate access to resources and connections which are valuable for museum founders. We argue that this ambivalence cannot be captured exclusively in the Bourdieusian terms of misrecognition or failed capital conversion. Instead, we draw from Michèle Lamont’s notion of boundary drawing to point at the moral limits which economic elites may encounter when they engage with the arts.

本文探讨了经济精英与艺术的接触如何影响他们在艺术专业人士中的合法性。通过对活跃在巴西艺术领域的艺术策展人、画廊主、艺术评论家、艺术收藏家、学者、艺术家和博物馆馆长的采访，我们探索了他们如何看待巴西私人博物馆的创始人。在许多方面，受访者都对创始人持批评态度，特别是在他们的动机、品味和性格方面。为了将博物馆创始人排除在艺术世界之外，我们的受访者在道德和象征上都划定了界限。然而，这并不妨碍他们赞扬创始人的实际成就。这些叙述表明，虽然精英们可能会寻求提高声望，但他们在艺术界的看法充其量是矛盾的。这很重要，因为艺术专业人士是艺术界的看门人，因为他们促进了对博物馆创始人有价值的资源和联系的获取。我们认为，这种矛盾心理不能完全用布尔迪厄学派的错误认识或资本转换失败的术语来描述。相反，我们从米歇尔·拉蒙特的边界绘制概念中吸取教训，指出经济精英在参与艺术时可能遇到的道德限制。

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Reader-character identity interdependence: An empirical investigation of congruence in identity and reading 读者-角色身份相互依赖：身份与阅读一致性的实证研究

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Poetics

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102075

Millicent Weber , Rachel Noorda

This article examines the mutually constitutive relationship between identity, social participation, and reading, through a survey of 3089 readers in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia conducted in 2022. This is driven by an intersectional call to take seriously individualised experiences of identity including diverse and overlapping identities, consider multiple marginalisations, and interrogate normative modes of thinking. This connects to a commitment shared with other scholars of reading practice to undertake research that is simultaneously descriptive and critical. This forms the basis for our survey design, comprehending substantial engagement with readers’ reporting of their own reading practices. We work through multifaceted understandings of identity in our survey, and use this as the basis for examining specific patterns of identity formation through reading practice, and considering how individual experiences connect to larger systemic power dynamics. We find that all readers read for identification with the characters in the books that they read. However, readers who belong to multiply marginalised groups must go against the grain of dominant structures of representation to seek out opportunities for identification in their reading, and still also tend to read across dominant spaces of normativity, whereas readers who belong to dominant identity groups do not similarly read against the grain. Income and education complicate this by potentially dictating access to diverse books. Select readers were confronted by the survey’s interest in identity and reading; while a survey is inherently normative, interesting trends of counter-cultural pushback emerged in free-text spaces as readers navigated the limitations of the tool.

本文通过对美国、英国和澳大利亚的3089名读者于2022年进行的调查，探讨了身份、社会参与和阅读之间的相互构成关系。这是由一个交叉的呼吁推动的，即认真对待个性化的身份体验，包括多样化和重叠的身份，考虑多重边缘化，并质疑规范的思维模式。这与其他阅读实践学者的共同承诺有关，即同时进行描述性和批判性的研究。这构成了我们调查设计的基础，理解读者对他们自己的阅读实践的报告的实质性参与。在我们的调查中，我们对身份进行了多方面的理解，并以此为基础，通过阅读练习来研究身份形成的特定模式，并考虑个人经历如何与更大的系统权力动态联系起来。我们发现所有的读者都是为了认同书中的人物而阅读的。然而，属于多重边缘群体的读者必须反对主流的代表性结构，在阅读中寻找认同的机会，并且仍然倾向于在规范性的主导空间中阅读，而属于主流身份群体的读者则不会同样地反对这种结构。收入和受教育程度可能决定了获得不同书籍的途径，这使问题复杂化。选定的读者面对的是调查对身份和阅读的兴趣；虽然调查本身是规范的，但当读者在自由文本空间中导航该工具的局限性时，反文化抵制的有趣趋势出现了。

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Grant-flipping across Europe: How Portuguese artists navigate precarity to sustain aspirations beyond recognition 欧洲各地的补助金翻转：葡萄牙艺术家如何在不稳定中生存，以维持人们无法辨认的抱负

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Poetics

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102059

Vera Borges

This article examines how artists navigate precarious labour conditions through a practice we conceptualize as grant-flipping: the sequential pursuit of grants across national and institutional boundaries. We propose this concept as an analytical lens to understand how artists develop reactive strategies not only to sustain their careers, but also to pursue meaningful artistic aspirations amid growing dependence on institutional funding. While the literature on artistic labour often emphasizes reputational hierarchies and structural constraints, grant-flipping foregrounds the adaptive agency of artists and the core values that shape their professional trajectories. Drawing on Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation art grants, we carried out documental analysis of two databases, alongside 60 qualitative interviews and an online survey (N = 488) on grant-based funding. We present six paradigmatic artistic trajectories spanning different career stages and disciplines. Our findings portray how, rather than pursuing global recognition, artists seek relational embeddedness within transnational circuits, often moving through conservatories, residencies, and institutional collaborations. Grant infrastructures enable them to mitigate economic risks, navigate structural inequalities, and sustain long-term careers. By theorizing grant-flipping as a constrained strategy in response to national structural precarity, this article contributes to debates on artistic labour, cultural policy, and the uneven geographies of artistic production. It furthermore provides insights into how Portuguese artists exercise agency within increasingly global and institutionally mediated art fields.

这篇文章探讨了艺术家们是如何通过一种实践来驾驭不稳定的劳动条件的，我们将其定义为“拨款翻转”：跨国家和机构边界的连续追求拨款。我们提出这个概念，作为一个分析的视角，来理解艺术家如何发展反应策略，不仅是为了维持他们的职业生涯，而且在越来越依赖机构资助的情况下，追求有意义的艺术抱负。虽然关于艺术劳动的文献经常强调声誉等级和结构约束，但拨款翻转突出了艺术家的适应性代理和塑造他们职业轨迹的核心价值观。利用Calouste Gulbenkian基金会的艺术资助，我们对两个数据库进行了文献分析，同时进行了60次定性访谈和一项基于资助的在线调查（N = 488）。我们呈现了跨越不同职业阶段和学科的六个范式艺术轨迹。我们的研究结果描述了艺术家如何在跨国巡回演出中寻求关系嵌入，而不是追求全球认可，经常通过音乐学院，驻地和机构合作。资助基础设施使他们能够减轻经济风险，应对结构性不平等，并维持长期的职业生涯。通过将拨款翻转理论化为一种应对国家结构不稳定的受限策略，本文有助于对艺术劳动、文化政策和艺术生产地域不平衡的辩论。此外，它还提供了葡萄牙艺术家如何在日益全球化和制度化的艺术领域中行使代理的见解。

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Of centers and peripheries: Explaining the macro-structure of book translation flows in Europe 中心与边缘：解读欧洲图书翻译流动的宏观结构

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Poetics

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102054

Matthias Kuppler

This study analyzes the exchange of book translations between countries. Existing research is split over the question of whether translation flows are driven by literary, economic, political, or cultural factors. The forces that stratify countries into centers and peripheries are thus debated. To advance the debate, this study leverages newly collected data on N = 147,443 translations of literary works to reconstruct the network of translation flows between 32 European countries for the time period from 2018 to 2020. The relative impacts of literary prestige, economic infrastructure, state support, and cultural proximity on translation flows are estimated with Generalized Additive Models and the Quadratic Assignment Procedure. Results indicate that translation flows are best explained by a combination of literary prestige and economic infrastructure. Translations flow from countries with high literary prestige and a strong publishing infrastructure to countries with little prestige and weak infrastructure. The transnational circulation of literature appears as a game in which economic infrastructure confers power and in which the accumulation of literary prestige is the ultimate stake. This suggests a logic of competition in which translations are the medium through which economic power is converted into symbolic recognition. In this view, the market logic and the artistic logic are not contradictory orientations but different steps in ongoing accumulation processes. Although these conclusions are specific to the European literary field, they document a novel viewpoint that is not reducible to established arguments that point to either convergence or divergence of art and commerce.

本研究分析了国与国之间的图书翻译交流。现有的研究在翻译流是否受文学、经济、政治或文化因素驱动的问题上存在分歧。因此，将国家划分为中心和边缘的力量受到了争论。为了推进这一争论，本研究利用新收集的N = 147443部文学作品翻译的数据，重建了2018年至2020年期间32个欧洲国家之间的翻译流网络。利用广义可加模型和二次分配程序估计了文学声望、经济基础设施、国家支持和文化邻近对翻译流的相对影响。结果表明，翻译流最好的解释是文学声望和经济基础设施的结合。翻译从文学声望高、出版基础设施强的国家流向声望低、基础设施弱的国家。文学的跨国流通似乎是一场游戏，在这场游戏中，经济基础设施赋予权力，文学声望的积累是最终赌注。这表明了一种竞争逻辑，在这种逻辑中，翻译是将经济实力转化为符号认可的媒介。在这种观点下，市场逻辑和艺术逻辑不是相互矛盾的取向，而是不断积累过程中的不同步骤。虽然这些结论是针对欧洲文学领域的，但它们记录了一种新颖的观点，这种观点不能简化为既定的论点，即指出艺术和商业的趋同或分歧。

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Engaging with Bot Narratives: The Audience Experience and Perceptions of Machine Script Writers 参与机器人叙事：观众体验和机器编剧的感知

IF 1.7 2区社会学 0 LITERATURE

Poetics

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102057

Rachel Son , Qingyuan Yang , Benjamin T. Vollmer , Benjamin K. Johnson

Use of AI technology for entertainment purposes is becoming more prevalent, which raises questions about how engagement with machine-generated narratives influences audiences’ enjoyment and perception of the story’s creator. We conducted a 2 (human author vs. bot author) x 2 (human label vs. bot label) between-subjects experiment to examine how actual authorship and labels about authorship affect narrative engagement and enjoyment as well as perceived authenticity, humanness, and mind of the author. Results indicate that the authorship label had effects on readers’ perceptions of the author, but whether the story was written by a human or ChatGPT did not. Engagement and enjoyment were consistent across authors and labels. We also found no support for narrative engagement as a mediator on enjoyment or perceptions of author.

将人工智能技术用于娱乐目的正变得越来越普遍，这就引发了一个问题，即与机器生成的叙事互动如何影响观众对故事创作者的享受和感知。我们在受试者之间进行了2（人类作者vs.机器人作者）x 2（人类标签vs.机器人标签）的实验，以检查实际作者身份和关于作者身份的标签如何影响叙事的参与和享受，以及作者的感知真实性、人性和思想。结果表明，作者标签对读者对作者的看法有影响，但故事是由人类还是ChatGPT写的却没有影响。参与和享受在作者和厂牌之间是一致的。我们也没有发现叙事参与作为享受或作者感知的中介的支持。

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Detailing social influence in predicting cinema attendance: a vignette approach 预测电影出勤率的详细社会影响：一个小插曲的方法

IF 1.7 2区社会学 0 LITERATURE

Poetics

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102041

Yevhen Voronin

The movie market is full of incommensurable products, encouraging consumers to rely on various judgment devices of a social nature (e.g., ratings and recommendations) to make choices. However, the role of movie genres and individual characteristics in relying on judgment devices remains uncertain.

Drawing upon Karpik’s theory of the economics of singularities, this study examines social influence in a movie market by employing a factorial survey to investigate the role of movie ratings and recommendations in predicting the likelihood of going to the cinema to watch a movie across four genres: romance, sci-fi, documentary and horror — genres distinguished by their varying levels of social stratification and popularity. The vignettes are presented in the form of pictures, depicting either low, middle or high ratings by movie experts, broad audience and peers, as well as personal recommendations from close friends, parents or neither.

First, the results reveal that the ratings by experts, broad audience and peers emerge as positive predictors; the gain from each rating's increase from the middle level to the highest level is greater than the loss from a decrease from the middle level to the lowest level among all movie genres. Second, personal recommendation by close friends, rather than parents, holds the highest significance regardless of the genre. Third, orientation toward specific judgment devices depends on individual characteristics of respondents, such as trust in family and importance of friends, genre preferences and the level of cultural omnivorousness.

电影市场充斥着不可通约率的产品，促使消费者依靠各种社会性的判断手段（如评分、推荐）进行选择。然而，电影类型和个体特征在依赖判断手段中的作用仍然不确定。借鉴Karpik的奇点经济学理论，本研究考察了电影市场的社会影响，通过采用因子调查来调查电影评级和推荐在预测去电影院观看四种类型电影的可能性方面的作用：浪漫、科幻、纪录片和恐怖——这些类型以其不同的社会分层水平和受欢迎程度而区分开来。这些小短片以图片的形式呈现，描绘了电影专家、普通观众和同行的低、中、高评分，以及亲密朋友、父母或两者都不是的个人推荐。首先，结果表明，专家、广大受众和同行的评分是积极的预测因素；在所有电影类型中，每一部电影的评分从中级上升到最高级所带来的收益大于从中级下降到最低等级所带来的损失。其次，不管是哪种类型的电影，好友的推荐比父母的推荐更重要。第三，对特定判断手段的倾向取决于被调查者的个人特征，如对家庭的信任和对朋友的重要性、类型偏好和文化包容性水平。

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