{"title":"Culture, the civic, and religion: characteristics and contributions of cultural analysis through three exemplary books.","authors":"Gary J Adler","doi":"10.1057/s41290-022-00155-4","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s41290-022-00155-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9047574/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45835103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fingerprinting, civil codes, and the origins of surveillance culture in the United States","authors":"F. Greenland","doi":"10.1057/s41290-022-00153-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-022-00153-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"11 1","pages":"137 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43395679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The call of ordinariness: peer interaction and superdiversity within the civil sphere","authors":"D. Tajic, Anna Lund","doi":"10.1057/s41290-022-00154-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-022-00154-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"11 1","pages":"337 - 364"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44431335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Memories of Others for the Sake of Our Own: Imported Events in American Presidential Rhetoric (1945–2020)","authors":"Tracy Adams, Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi","doi":"10.1057/s41290-022-00157-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-022-00157-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"11 1","pages":"317 - 336"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45506218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rusty gardens: stigma and the making of a new place reputation in Buffalo, New York","authors":"Randolph Hohle","doi":"10.1057/s41290-022-00159-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-022-00159-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"11 1","pages":"193 - 219"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41662663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Linders, Brittney Miles, Molly Broscoe, Jennifer Money
{"title":"The sounds of executions: sonic flaws and the transformation of capital punishment","authors":"A. Linders, Brittney Miles, Molly Broscoe, Jennifer Money","doi":"10.1057/s41290-021-00150-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-021-00150-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"11 1","pages":"162 - 192"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48072917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transcendence, fast and slow: Infinite Jest and the dynamics of a cultural splash","authors":"Thomas Medvetz","doi":"10.1057/s41290-021-00148-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-021-00148-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"11 1","pages":"105-132"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42280050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bushwhacking: accounts as symbolic violence in the arts-based gentrification of Bushwick, Brooklyn","authors":"Devin Collins","doi":"10.1057/s41290-021-00149-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-021-00149-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"11 1","pages":"77-104"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48006450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Symbolic action and constraint: the cultural logic of the 2017 UK General Election.","authors":"Marcus Morgan","doi":"10.1057/s41290-021-00129-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-021-00129-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper examines the influence of both the agential and structural aspects of culture on the 2017 UK General Election. The empirical section of the paper is organised around three aspects of the Labour campaign narrative: its promise to provide a national 'alternative', its mobilisation of Corbyn as simultaneously an individual and an icon, and its use of rallies and social media as alternative stages from which to project its meanings. It identifies the material conditioning, coding and counter-coding, narrativisation and counter-narrativisation of key events, issues, and figures, demonstrating how the substantive contestation of the campaign occurred within a consensual formal grammar that constrained symbolic action and often produced consequences unintended by cultural workers themselves. It, therefore, demonstrates how culture retained a relative autonomy in influencing meaning outcomes in part due to its formal semiotic logic. It introduces the notion of 'code-rerouting' to cultural sociology's stock of conceptual tools and highlights how failure to conform to the structuring norms of civil rituals, such as presenting oneself to public scrutiny during a campaign, or failure to project coherence between surface and depth, individual and icon, past and present, or between private and public can prove fatal to performative felicity.</p>","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"10 3","pages":"355-397"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7882464/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25391316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gliding on the edge of the iron cage: performing rationality and artistry in the sport of figure skating.","authors":"Zaoying Ji","doi":"10.1057/s41290-022-00178-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-022-00178-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prior studies on growing formal rationalization in evaluation systems have overwhelmingly shown that they operate as \"iron cages,\" which redefine standards of excellence around quantifiable metrics. However, existing literature may have overestimated the extent of isomorphism in individual or organizational practices under highly rationalized systems of assessment. The judging system in figure skating both rewards quantifiable technical merit and valorizes a circumscribed notion of artistry characterized by maturity and authenticity. It constitutes a combination of formal rationalization and culturally specific productions of artistry, offering participants a distinct set of options in constructing their competition routines. Drawing on exclusively obtained interview data with 40 Olympic-level figure skaters from the U.S. and 5 other countries, and following Alexander's (Sociol Theory 22(4):527-573, 2004) social performance theory, I explore the contingent process by which figure skaters maneuver between conformity to the formally rationalized rulebook and the non-isomorphic yet culture-structured performances of artistry. In doing so, I identify three types of skaters based on their embodiment of artistry: the emerging phenoms, the athletic performers and the \"authentic\" artists. My article reveals that despite rationalizing tendencies of the scoring system, skaters strive for social performances of artistry based on shared cultural scripts of greatness in the sport.</p>","PeriodicalId":45140,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Cultural Sociology","volume":"10 4","pages":"657-675"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9707132/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10413506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}