Sociology of Culture Research Papers (original) (raw)

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- Sociology, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Cultural Geography
- by Josnei Di Carlo and +2
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- Intellectual History, Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Art History

Focusing on the pivotal 1917–1919 conjuncture in Russia and Ukraine, this paper analyzes the efforts of the divided Jewish nationalist intelligentsia to disseminate new forms of Jewish culture to a mass audience, the reception of these efforts in the former Tsarist empire’s variegated Jewish population, and the intelligentsia’s parallel exploration of other forms of cultural formation less dependent on popular support. Comparing the cultural programs of Hebraism and Yiddishism, it demonstrates important parallels in their cultural visions and highlights their shared belief in the possibility of implanting a secularist, aestheticist intelligentsia culture in the whole of “the nation.” The paper reconstructs both substantial forms of popular openness to this culture and its sociocultural weaknesses. Finally, it examines experiments made by the intelligentsia with alternative routes to cultural transformation: suppression of popular culture, non-market cultural arrangements, cultural revolution through education, and the uses of the state. The paper seeks a fuller understanding both of the roots of interwar cultural programs in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, and of the Jewish nationalist intelligentsia’s underlying conception of “culture,” its own authority, and the evolving relationship between these conceptions and the realities of East European Jewish social, cultural, and political life from the 1890s onward.

Glocal Spirituality: Consumerism and Heritage in Puerto Rican Brujería
With the recent intensification of the circulation of ritual experts and commodities, folk religions such as Puerto Rican brujería (witch-healing) have entered a transnational arena of ritual experimentation and eclecticism. Concomitantly, the politics of identity, operating at local-political and global-commercial stages, propel the search for origins and the production of essential identities, leading to the revitalization and orthodoxy of folk religions as well as their folklorization, following a local—though globally pervasive—heritage discourse. Why glocal spirituality? My main argument is that both these forces—the actual insertion into global circulations that promote a high degree of ritual eclecticism and the local demand for an essential Puerto Rican national identity that promote orthodoxy—work in tandem creating a complex set of conditions for ritual practice and meaning.
How can these apparently contradictory processes be theorized within folklore studies? From a historic-pragmatic perspective to ritual and through an intimate ethnographic account that traces the encounters between practitioners, clients and suppliers of ritual goods, I will show how these two processes work in tandem. That is, without an a-priori public recognition of brujos (witch-healers) as repositories of Puerto Rican wisdom (in the context of the unresolved neocolonial political status of the island), the fame and celebrity that enabled the open incorporation of African based rituals, of bureaucratic gestures and interventions, and transnational religious commodities could not have been viable. Critics of the culture industry and consumerism tend to suggest that commercial forces inherently taint the authenticity of culture, and in this case would taint the spiritual effectiveness of brujería. For practitioners and clients, however, material and spiritual progress not only are not at odds but also are intimately connected. Indeed, practitioners are driven by the attainment of “blessings”—defined by material success as well as spiritual power—which presume the spirituality of commodities and the thinghood of spirituality. Especially in a world guided by capitalist modes of production and the sensuous insatiable consumption of life styles and self-images, brujos and their clients take advantage of the opportunities opened up by multiculturalism and identity politics. They openly expand the pantheon of spirits as well as their ritual expertise, protected by the idiom of heritage—yet outside of its constraints, showing that more than endangered species they are active participants in these glocal forces, speaking to them in their own particular modern yet spiritual idiom.

- by Raquel Romberg
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- Sociology, Social Theory, Sociology of Culture, Cultural Policy
- by Johannes van Oort
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- Religion, Gnosticism, History, Ancient History
- by David Hesmondhalgh
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- Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Music, Popular Music
- by Sergio Villena Fiengo and +1
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- Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Sport, Costa Rica, Estudios Culturales
- by Marc James Léger
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- Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Aesthetics, Visual Studies

Uma breve análise crítica do neoliberalismo, suas origens e ideologia.

- by Frank M C Kuehn
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- Sociology, Social Theory, Sociology of Culture, International Economics

The purpose of this paper is to explore less obvious aspects of the relationship between gastronomy and opera. It is a fact that our age promotes the image and concept of the master chef or confectioner and this is facilitated even more thanks to social media. During the 19th century, the role of promoting the chef's image was mainly taken on by the press and literature. The chef and confectioner, in their effort to establish themselves in a changing society after the French Revolution, were trying to prove that their art is not inferior to other arts. The indexing of the corpus of a French newspaper published in the late 19th century, which is mainly aimed at confectioners, is an attempt to prove how lyrical theatre and some of its brilliant contributors were treated-as a factor conducive to the consolidation of the "dignity" of the confectioners' profession. Also, in this said corpus, names of dishes, bearing the titles of opera, operetta, and / or their contributors, will be identified, as a small contribution to the nomenclature of gastronomy.

- by Maria Manola and +1
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- Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Tourism Studies, Tourism Marketing

TVÅ SIDOR AV SAMMA MYNT? Tabell 2. Söktryck efter namn på folkhögskolan, Ht 2009 Folk-Antal Antal N Profiler Söktryck St. d högskola sökande platser(medelvärden) Fridhem 450 25 1 Jazz 18, 0 Skurup 340 20 1 Jazz 17, 0 Billströmska 230 20 1... more

- by Erik Nylander
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- Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Music, Music Education
- by Érica Magi
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- Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Popular Music, Brazilian Studies
- by Cecilia Ferraudi Curto and +1
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- Sociology of Culture
- by Frederic Godart
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- Sociology, Social Theory, Sociology of Culture, Theories of Meaning
- by David Hesmondhalgh
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- Sociology of Culture, Music, Cultural Theory, Sociology of Music
- by Pieter Verstraete
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- Sociology, Social Theory, Sociology of Culture, Cultural Policy
- by Oksana Ignatieva
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- Sociology of Culture

Réplica à resenha de "Machado de Assis: por uma poética da emulação", escrita por Lidiane Soares Rodrigues. Propõe-se a noção de "resenha passaporte" para caracterizar a estratégia empregada pela resenhista: trata-se de comentar... more

Humberto Mauro é considerado um dos pioneiros do cinema brasileiro. O presente artigo apresenta uma proposta de leitura de seu filme O descobrimento do Brasil (1937) a partir de elementos conceituais da Sociologia da Arte e do Cinema. O filme, pertencente ao acervo do antigo Instituto Nacional de Cinema Educativo, apresenta uma imagem para o descobrimento do país, propondo-se a ser uma ilustração da Carta de Pero Vaz de Caminha. Para isso ele trava um diálogo com a tradição visual brasileira, e realiza o que podemos chamar de uma pintura histórica em movimento. Nessa perspectiva, o filme contribui para forjar elementos do passado na construção de valores da época de sua produção, criando ou recriando mitos de uma nacionalidade. Com isso ele se torna parte de um projeto maior de construção da nação brasileira, no qual os objetos de cultura eram considerados um dos caminhos para sua efetivação.

- by Anderson Trevisan
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- Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Arts, Sociology of Cinema

A start to this reflection is the fact that "connection" derives from a Latin word that means binding together and close union (OED, Compact Edition, p838). Disconnection, with the usual negative meaning of the prefix "Dis", then can be understood as unbinding, separation and distant difference. What then is unconnection? This reflection was originally stimulated by my reading an article on academia.edu by a long-time Australian educator and writer who emphasized connection as a critical component of contemporary education. As a long-time international educator and writer, as well as a student of diverse disciplines, I understand that education now takes place in many different kinds of settings. Archeologists have also shown repeatedly that groups of human beings lived and learned in many different settings with no knowledge of most of the other groups and no need of any kind of product from other groups in order to survive and thrive in their specific environments. I suggest that this kind of noninterdepence for satisfactory, successful survival be considered unconnection.

- by David Cornberg
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- Sociology of Culture, Education, Educational Technology, Educational Psychology

Las comunidades online de videojugadores se han convertido en espacios de debate sociopolíti-co, campos de lucha y disputa discursiva donde se dirime la hegemonía de los marcos dominan-tes. Convertidos en espacios centrales de subver-sión, ordenamiento y discusión, nos aproximamos al estudio de caso de Cyberpunk 2077, un video-juego de rol de mundo abierto que ha sido muy prolífico en la emergencia de debates y activis-mo en comunidades online como YouTube. A par-tir de una observación participante y técnicas de web scraping y metadatos, realizamos un estudio del discurso y de contenido, que profundiza en las problemáticas de consumo de dispositivos so-ciotécnicos donde se reconfiguran las identida-des, discursos e imaginarios colectivos.

- by Costan Sequeiros
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- Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Video Games, Videojuegos

U članku koji slijedi fenomenološki analiziramo imunizacijsku prirodu, porijeklo i suštinu kulture. U uvodnom dijelu članka analiziramo traumu rođenja i psihološki mehanizam nastanka svijesti, pokazujući da imunizacijski karakter kulture predstavlja funkciju imunizacijskog karaktera svijesti. U prvom dijelu članka analiziramo intencionalni karakter svijesti kako bi smo objasnili intencionalni karakter kulture. U drugom dijelu članka dajemo sažet pregled Sloterdijkove imunizacijske paradigme. U trećem dijelu članka analiziramo imunizacijsku funkciju kulture. U završnom dijelu članka ukazujemo na teorijski značaj imunizacijske paradigme kulture.

- by Nemanja Đukić
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- Sociology, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Social Sciences

Partendo dalla constatazione che oggi il consumo sembra essere la principale proprietà capace di descrivere le caratteristiche individuali e l’appartenenza di ognuno all’interno della struttura sociale, questo lavoro empirico prende avvio dalle maggiori teorie sociologiche che hanno permesso il costituirsi di un ramo di studi indirizzato a spiegare fenomeni che al giorno d’oggi sono sotto gli occhi di tutti. Sono stati utilizzati strumenti metodologici e metodi di ricerca sociale quantitativi e qualitativi, in base a un approccio mixed-methods. Sembra che la società, con i suoi dettami consumistici, spinga l’attore sociale contemporaneo verso scelte di consumo legate al godimento immediato, all’hic et nunc. I beni acquistati e consumati con modalità sempre più fugaci sembrano avere ancora un fortissimo valore simbolico e, nonostante l’attuale momento di crisi economica, la corsa all’acquisto di prodotti costosi e destinati a una rapida obsolescenza prende senso se letta in un’ottica di definizione di un sé sociale sempre più transitorio.

- by Danilo Boriati
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- Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Social Sciences, Sociology of consumption
- by Terence McDonnell
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- Sociology of Culture, Cultural Sociology
- by Simona Boscani Leoni
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- European History, Modern History, Sociology, Social Theory
- by Surya Awangga
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- History, Sociology of Culture, Cultural Sociology, Indonesian Studies

Literary theorists and cultural sociologists alike acknowledge that there are no universal standards for appraising the value of a book. Yet, book critics regularly pronounce the literary merits and failures of novels in their reviews. Research on cultural criticism has shed considerable light on how reviewers are able to assess the meaning and value of novels in the absence of objective indicators of literary quality by relying on different cultural ''tools''. This study examines how critics use authors' race and ethnicity as a tool for constructing the value of literary fiction. Based on analysis of 265 book reviews from The New York Times Book Review and The New Yorker magazine, I find that reviewers use racial and ethnic identifiers to: (1) establish the authenticity of the novels, (2) classify works into ethnic genres, and (3) nominally identify international literary talent. I also present data on what influence racial and ethnic identification has for...

- by Phillipa Chong
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- Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Literature, Evaluation Research

"Antes de tocar la tierra hay que pedir permiso, porque la tierra es un lugar sagrado, donde existen millones de especies, unas que vemos y otras que no, ahí están los espíritus de los hermanos animales y los tíos árboles, la chagra es un lugar sagrado donde hay vida, por eso hay que respetarlo, sanearlo, protegerlo y multiplicarlo. Antes de ir a sembrar, tabaqueese mijo pa´ que no muerda culebra, pa´ que no pique sancudo, pa´que no se corte con el machete, pa´que no le pase nada. Ahora, chupe ambil y mambee, porque pa´ eso es la coca y el tabaco…para trabajar" (Mambeos con Uzuma F+ruya Buinaima)

- by Join Red
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- Sociology of Culture, Culture, Hip-Hop Studies, Hip Hop and politics
- by Tula Giannini
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- Sociology, Cultural Studies, Media Sociology, Sociology of Culture

Los grandes festejos del Bicentenario argentino que tuvieron lugar a lo largo y ancho del territorio nacional encontraron su correlato internacional en la Feria de Frankfurt. En el presente artículo se realiza un breve análisis de la historia y de la lógica y dinámica de funcionamiento de la Feria, con el objeto enmarcar y dar cuenta de la presencia argentina como inivitado de honor en el evento internacional del libro más importante del planeta. A través de este acercamiento se busca proponer un ángulo de análisis particular y singularmente privilegiado para comprender el lugar ocupado por la edición y la literatura argentina en el espcacio mundial de la producción y circulación de libros.

- by Alejandro Dujovne and +1
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- Sociology of Culture, Publishing, Argentina History, Book Publishing
- by Tiago Santos
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- Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Comics Studies, Sociology of consumption

Th is paper focuses on relationship between volunteer work and cultural participation.
Volunteering is introduced as an important practice of cultural commitment. On the one
hand, it has all the major features of contemporary cultural practices. It can be described
in terms of culture-making, productivity, continuity, and glamour. On the other hand,
because of its subjectivity, relationship supporting mechanism, and lifestyle infl uence, it is
perceived as diff erent from other practices. Th is situation makes volunteering an important
aspect of cultural studies researches. Data analyzed in this paper are the results of the research
project entitled, „Involving volunteers into organization of big events – weaknesses
and strengths”.

- by Przemysław Nosal
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- Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Sport, Third Sector Studies, Mega Events
- by Mottier Véronique
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- Religion, Sociology, Social Theory, Sociology of Culture

In this article we develop an approach to coincidences as discursive activities. To illustrate the range of empirical questions that can be explored in the analysis of coincidence accounts, we examine one single written account, which was submitted to a website of a research project to investigate the statistical dimensions of coincidence experiences. Our analysis is broadly ethnomethodological in that we examine this single case to identify how structural and narrative components work to constitute the recognizably coincidental quality of the events so described. The analysis identifies a mirror structure that resembles chiasmus, a figurative device found in classical texts. The analysis also describes how the account is designed to address inferential matters related to the site to which it was submitted. In the discussion we reflect on the implications of this approach for other approaches to coincidence.

- by Robin Wooffitt
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- Sociology of Culture, Communication, Discourse, Qualitative
- by Zuzana Révészová and +1
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- Sociology of Culture, Cultural Sociology, Trust, Family

Este ensayo explora los modos participativos de traducción de la experiencia y de construcción de lo experimentado, a partir de verificar una obsesión, en particular antropológica pero que se expande hacia otras disciplinas, por la «participación» como modo de captura de la experiencia de otro, bien sea este un otro investigado, bien sea un otro receptor de lo investigado.

- by Federico Gobato
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- Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Cultural Sociology, Research Methodology