Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. What happens when politics enters strongly aesthetic cultural fields? This article proposes a novel conceptual framework, which we propose to call ideologization, to understand how political-ideological consideration…
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article takes a cultural approach to analysing the profound privatisation of the public in one of the many places in which it manifests: an art gallery. I argue that, as well as categories of political and econo…
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. While therapy culture has long been a part of the repertoires through which people think about and practice their romantic relationships, it has been less prominent in how they envision friendship. However, based on …
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. Sociological research richly documents the many ways through which education becomes a form of convertible capital, but focuses less on the cultural schemas that graduates possess and use to respond to disruptions of…
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. Chez Narcisse is a bar located on the threshold of the southern Vosges, in the east of France, that has been run by the same family for over 120 years. Its particularity lies in the fact that since the mid 1980s, it …
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. Much of the discussion of performance and collective action presupposes a hierarchical performer–audience structure along the lines of Durkheimian public events intended to reaffirm a collective identity. Scholars ha…
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. Effectively a double-height or larger void internal to a building, the atrium is a familiar architectural feature the world over. The global popularity of the space in contemporary urban buildings – including hotels,…
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. How do privileged young people engage in artistic fields? Are the arts classified and classifying for educational paths? To examine these questions, I propose observations and reflections from a study of secondary ar…
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article argues that the material dimensions of secrecy, which have been neglected within academic research into consumption and into material culture, are ripe for sociological analysis and attention. We draw on…
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print. While prior research foregrounds the economic and political conditions that shape cultural globalization, we focus on the effects of culture. We argue that diffusion itself is a cultural practice, and that two types …