Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. This is a study of how collective memory forms out of traumatic experience. It addresses questions about the formation of collective identity out of individual trauma, and, in turn, how individual and collective trau…
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. In academic research on popular music, the framing by musical genres and styles such as ‘Rock’, ‘Jazz’, and ‘Electro’ often seems obvious to social sciences scholars. The history, aesthetic features, and boundaries o…
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. Since Hochschild proposed the notion of a ‘deep story’ to address a collective emotional structure (particularly resentment) underpinning political attitudes and social divisions in the contemporary USA, this categor…
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. Accession to the European Union (EU) aroused diverse emotions in public debate among citizens, but the everyday experience of being an EU member is much more difficult to narrate than by relating to two contrasting v…
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. Due to technological innovations, the music industries have become more accessible for outsiders over the past two decades. Yet, over the same period we have seen an increasing number of popular music programmes at h…
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. In 2021, the Peace Court of Colombia revealed that the national army had systematically executed 6402 innocent civilians, falsely presenting them as members of illegal armed groups. This revelation catapulted the num…
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. Literary fiction narrates ethical and moral meaning. It is rich with ethical conceptions of the good life and expressions of moral universalism, and it assumes a meaningful role in civil society through this richness…
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article introduces the concept of ‘iconic extensions’ and explores the phenomenon of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) hat as a highly recognizable and controversial political symbol in the United States of Am…
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. Post-Soviet subjects have often been portrayed as ‘winners’ or ‘losers’ of post-Soviet transformations, where those socioeconomically successful are seen as winners while the socioeconomically weak are losers. Such l…
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. In this article, we propose a unified research framework for studying the impact of social and digital inequalities on four types of cultural practices: offline art-related practices, offline everyday cultural practi…