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Book Review – Symbolic Objects in Contentious Politics

Symbolic Objects in Contentious Politics is an ambitious and wide-ranging edited collection in which the editors, Benjamin Abrams and Peter Gardener, highlight the importance of paying attention to a distinctly undertheorized field. While contentious politics have been extensively theorized, the role that objects play in these contexts has been markedly less so – the editors attest, for example, that there is currently very little literature … Continue reading Book Review – Symbolic Objects in Contentious Politics

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Event Report – “Memorial Conference for Xiaohong Xu”

On May 24, 2024, the Department of Sociology and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan held an emotional conference in honor of sociologist Xiaohong Xu. Professor Xu, who passed away on December 12, 2024 at the age of 45, was a much beloved scholar and teacher, and a most original sociologist of Chinese politics, culture, political economy, and history. At … Continue reading Event Report – “Memorial Conference for Xiaohong Xu”

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Letter from Chair, Newsletter

Letter from the Chair

Dear colleagues in the culture section, The ASA Meetings are fast approaching, so it is time to look ahead to the conference and to look back on the section activities of the past academic year. Just because I am looking forward to it, I begin with an invitation to the section’s reception at the conference, which will be a joint reception with the Theory Section … Continue reading Letter from the Chair

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Annoucement, Newsletter

Newsletter Announcements

Calls for Papers and Participants From Kristóf Nagy: Call-for-Proposal: Infrastructures of Trading and Transferring Art since 1900 Workshop Organized by: Gregor M. Langfeld (University of Amsterdam/Open University, Netherlands)Kristóf Nagy (KEMKI – Central European Research Institute for Art History, Hungary)Lynn Rother (Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany) Deadline: 31 January 2024. Speakers will be informed by 11 February 2024.Dates of the Workshop: June 26–28, 2024.Location of the Workshop: … Continue reading Newsletter Announcements

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SSHA Conference Session Report – The Handbook of the Sociology of Morality

Marissa Combs (Harvard University) reported a book session event for the second volume of the Handbook of the Sociology of Morality at the 2023 Social Science History Association conference in Washington D.C. A lot has changed since the first volume of The Handbook of the Sociology of Morality was published in 2010. What was once considered a peripheral topic addressed in a few literatures has … Continue reading SSHA Conference Session Report – The Handbook of the Sociology of Morality

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Book Review: Seeking Others by Michèle Lamont

Book Review: Seeing OthersBy Estela B. DiazPresidential Postdoctoral FellowPrinceton University With Seeing Others: How Recognition Works – and How it Can Heal a Divided World (Simon & Schuster 2023), Harvard sociologist Michèle Lamont brings her nearly 40 years of expertise into the public sphere. Sociological scholarship and public policy tend to focus on reducing inequality in the distribution of material resources. In Seeing Others, Lamont … Continue reading Book Review: Seeking Others by Michèle Lamont

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