The Eastern Sociological Society held its annual meeting in February organized around the theme “Dignity and Society.” Sessions covered a wide range of topics of particular interest to scholars of culture including “Identity, Power, and Caste in Science Fiction,” “Cultural Politics,” and “Voices, Meaning, and the Media.” Call for Papers Third Annual Du Boisian Scholar Network (DBSN) Virtual Gathering at the University of Michigan, Ann … Continue reading Announcements
Moderator Ana Velitchkova, University of Mississippi Panelists Olga Shevchenko, Williams College; Andreas Wimmer, Columbia University Xiaohong Xu, University of Michigan On March 1, 2023, the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association held a live discussion themed “Belligerent Nationalism in Big Power Politics,” as the second event of this year’s Culture and Contemporary Life Series. Ana Velitchkova (University of Mississippi) moderated the discussion. Olga Shevchenko … Continue reading CCL Event Report: Belligerent Nationalism
By Oded Marom PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology University of Southern California In his new book, Fair Share: Senior Activism, Tiny Publics, and the Culture of Resistance, Gary Fine takes on two distinct, yet related tasks. First, the book seeks to solve an original empirical puzzle regarding senior citizens and political action., Seniors in America, Fine tells us, face a curious predicament. On the one … Continue reading Book Review: Fair Share by Gary Alan Fine
Beginning in 2024, Asia Friedman (University of Delaware), along with two of her colleagues, will assume the editorship of Sociological Forum, the Eastern Sociological Society’s flagship journal. Like her soon-to-be editorial predecessor Karen Cerulo, who has served as the journal’s editor for more than fifteen years, Friedman brings a cognitive cultural perspective to sociological inquiry. In particular, the cultural patterning of human thought, attention, and … Continue reading Questions with Asia Friedman
Hello Culture Section members! I have the great honor and pleasure to begin this Letter from the Chair by announcing this year’s Sociology of Culture Section Election winners and the Section Awards winners. I will also briefly report on the activities of the Culture Section since our March 2023 Newsletter. Our hard-working Newsletter Committee and Editors have put together another fantastic Newsletter, and I hope … Continue reading Letter from the Chair – Vanina Leschziner
New Books Buchholz, Larissa. 2022. The Global Rules of Art. The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy. Princeton University Press. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691245447/the-global-rules-of-art A trailblazing study of the emergence of a global cultural field and the different ways in which artists from formerly colonized or peripheral locations become valued worldwide. Prior to the 1980s, the postwar canon of so-called “international” contemporary art consisted almost … Continue reading Newsletter Announcements
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