Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article explores how young people with minoritized ethnic (mostly Moroccan or Turkish backgrounds) and religious (Muslim) identities in Flanders employ humour for identity construction. The participants created …
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. The nude is a long-established category in western art, but in pre-modern China, images of the naked body were not art and carried the stigma of obscenity. This article uses the paradigm of artification to examine th…
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print.
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. Music festivals are a ubiquitous aspect of music economies and wider processes of cultural participation and community regeneration. They are now sites for exploring wider issues related to the environment, inequalit…
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. Bigfoot exists. If not as a biological creature, then as a cultural object about which people know with a high degree of stability. It also exists as an object which some people organise their lives around. Those who…
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. The filigree ground mosaic is placed at the heart of the Grindel neighbourhood in Hamburg, Germany. Tracing the footprint of the former synagogue that once stood there, proudly, it demarcates an absence. It is a remi…
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. Cultural omnivorousness is widely studied as a dimension of the stratification of taste, related to class or status positions. However, taste is also structured by patterns of social mobility, especially educational …
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. With the digitalization of everyday life, the distinction between online and offline life is less relevant. Thus, we suggest that researchers ask how the digital and the non-digital are entangled, rather than if they…
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. Sociological research on global flows of visual art has primarily investigated artistic presence in the organizations located at the center of the art world. This article shifts the focus to a country outside the tra…
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article introduces the activist as a widely disseminated character within the culture of social movement societies. Drawing on studies of activist identities, Alasdair MacIntyre on characters, and the sociology …