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The Performance and Reception of Race-Based Athletic Activism: Toward a Critical, Dramaturgical Theory of Sport. 以种族为基础的体育行动主义的表现和接受:走向体育的批判性戏剧理论。

IF 2.9 2区社会学

American Journal of Cultural Sociology Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1057/s41290-022-00173-2

Douglas Hartmann, Alex Manning, Kyle Green

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引用次数: 3

Cultural sociology in East Asia: three trajectories in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea. 东亚文化社会学:香港、台湾和韩国的三条轨迹。

IF 2.9 2区社会学

American Journal of Cultural Sociology Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Epub Date: 2021-02-05 DOI: 10.1057/s41290-021-00127-0

Agnes Shuk-Mei Ku, Horng-Luen Wang, Jongryul Choi

引用次数: 3

Whose voice matters? The gaming sphere and the Blitzchung controversy in eSports. 谁的声音重要?游戏领域和电子竞技中的闪电战争议。

IF 2.9 2区社会学

American Journal of Cultural Sociology Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1057/s41290-022-00174-1

Ondřej Klíma

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引用次数: 2

Imagining cultural wealth: producer perceptions and potential value in cultural markets. 想象文化财富:文化市场中的生产者认知和潜在价值。

IF 2.9 2区社会学

American Journal of Cultural Sociology Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Epub Date: 2021-08-19 DOI: 10.1057/s41290-021-00141-2

Amy E Singer

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引用次数: 0

Looking beyond interaction: exploring meaning making through the windows of an art gallery. 超越互动:透过艺术画廊的窗户探索意义。

IF 2.9 2区社会学

American Journal of Cultural Sociology Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Epub Date: 2021-11-27 DOI: 10.1057/s41290-021-00146-x

Laura Harris

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引用次数: 1

Militarizing politics of recognition through the Invictus Games: post-heroic exalting of the armed forces. 不可征服运动会的军事化政治:对军队的后英雄崇拜。

IF 2.9 2区社会学

American Journal of Cultural Sociology Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1057/s41290-022-00172-3

Brad West

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Thanks to Reviewers 感谢审稿人

IF 2.9 2区社会学

American Journal of Cultural Sociology Pub Date : 2021-10-23 DOI: 10.1177/0267659118755901

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Mapping multivocality: how critics communicate complex meanings through metaphor 映射多重语音:批评家如何通过隐喻传达复杂的意义

IF 2.9 2区社会学

American Journal of Cultural Sociology Pub Date : 2021-09-28 DOI: 10.1057/s41290-021-00143-0

Hannah Wohl

引用次数: 2

Remembering the dreams, forgetting the war: commemoration and narrative in Japanese girls’ culture 追梦忘战：日本少女文化中的纪念与叙事

IF 2.9 2区社会学

American Journal of Cultural Sociology Pub Date : 2021-09-23 DOI: 10.1057/s41290-021-00142-1

A. Yamamoto, John Sonnett

引用次数: 0

Nostalgia and rumors in the rural methamphetamine market 农村甲基苯丙胺市场的怀旧和谣言

IF 2.9 2区社会学

American Journal of Cultural Sociology Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1057/s41290-021-00140-3

Heidi Grundetjern, Whitney Tchoula

引用次数: 4