Submissions and Nominations for 2024 Section Awards

I am very pleased to share with you our section’s calls for submissions for its annual awards. Please consider nominating your work! We look forward to your submissions.  May I highlight especially our newest awards:   The Stuart Hall Award in Cultural Sociology for “a mid-career sociologist whose work holds great promise for advancing the cultural study of racial or ethnic inequality”  and the John Mohr Dissertation Improvement … Continue reading Submissions and Nominations for 2024 Section Awards

Announcements

Announcements Job Postings The University of Oregon, Department of Sociology, seeks to hire an assistant professor of sociology with expertise in culture, digital media and/or technology, broadly defined. The ideal candidate will have a record of methodologically rigorous scholarship, a commitment to institutional diversity, equity, and inclusion, and a dedication to inclusive teaching. Find more information about the position here: https://careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/531916/assistant-professor-of-sociology      The Department … Continue reading Announcements

Report on the Culture Section Mentoring Program – Marshall A. Taylor

We are well under way with the fourth annual ASA Culture Section Mentor Program. The best way I can think of to summarize the program so far is this: consistent, but a little down. Before I elaborate on that summary, though, I’ll quickly recap the structure of the program. The program is following the same structure as it has in previous years, with multiple mentees … Continue reading Report on the Culture Section Mentoring Program – Marshall A. Taylor

Taxing and the Boundaries of Art – Nathalie Heinich

Creators are sometimes the best social scientists’ friends. It is the case when they provide live experiments regarding the boundaries of art, as Marcel Duchamp and Constantin Brancusi did with the famous trial against the American administration after it had applied industrial taxing rules to an imported sculpture fault of having considered it an artwork.[1] Boundary objects such as design or contemporary art pieces are … Continue reading Taxing and the Boundaries of Art – Nathalie Heinich

CCL Event Report: Theodicy and the Problem of Meaning – Manning Zhang

Manning ZhangPhD CandidateDepartment of Sociology and Social PolicyBrandeis University On April 17, 2023, the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association held a live discussion themed “Theodicy and the Problem of Meaning,” as the third event of this year’s Culture and Contemporary Life Series. Miray Philips (University of Minnesota) moderated the discussion. Zeina Al Azmeh (Selwyn College and University of Cambridge), Christina Simko (Williams College), … Continue reading CCL Event Report: Theodicy and the Problem of Meaning – Manning Zhang

Book Review by Joselyn Quiroz: Refashioning Race by Alka Menon

Book Review by Joselyn QuirozPhD Candidate, Department of SociologyUniversity of California – Los Angeles In Alka Menon’s new book, Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards, she identifies the ways in which cosmetic surgeons generate and apply knowledge, theory, and technique using racial categories, thereby reshaping and refashioning racial categories on an individual, interactional, and broader cultural scale. Menon examines the case … Continue reading Book Review by Joselyn Quiroz: Refashioning Race by Alka Menon