IF 1.7 2区社会学

Poetics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102061

Jessica E. Black

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Behind the book reviews: Enduring hierarchies of occurrence and unpredictable sentiments 在书评的背后：事件发生的持久等级和不可预测的情绪

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Poetics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102063

Henrik Fürst , Murathan Kurfalı

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The left and the right in the ethnographic imagination 人种学想象中的左和右

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Poetics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102056

Federico Brandmayr

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Gendered pathways to perpetual fame: the selection of elite Korean novelists into the literary canon 通往永久名声的性别途径：挑选优秀的韩国小说家进入文学经典

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Poetics Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102024

Jina Lee

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The turkish knowledge trap: Populist resentment as elite-counterelite collaboration 土耳其的知识陷阱：民粹主义的怨恨是精英与反精英的合作

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Poetics Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102040

Barış Büyükokutan , Turgut Keskintürk , Hatice Sena Arıcıoğlu

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Who remembers fake historical figures? Differentiating between passing knowledge and dispositional openness in cultural research 谁会记得假的历史人物？文化研究中知识传递与性格开放的辨析

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Poetics Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102043

Clayton Childress

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From grill to gram: Cultural representations of meat and masculinities on Food Instagram 从烤架到克克：美食Instagram上肉类和男子气概的文化表现

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Poetics Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102039

Elina Vrijsen , Alexander Dhoest , Sofie Van Bauwel , Charlotte De Backer

{"title":"From grill to gram: Cultural representations of meat and masculinities on Food Instagram","authors":"Elina Vrijsen , Alexander Dhoest , Sofie Van Bauwel , Charlotte De Backer","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102039","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102039","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines the cultural associations between meat and masculinities, which is prevalent in western societies and manifested through various forms of popular culture, such as Instagram. Social media play a pivotal role in representing gender identities and food practices in digital spaces, both reflecting and constructing our ideas and beliefs about social life. This article investigates how Food Instagram represents the cultural associations between meat and masculinities through visual imagery and language. By conducting a reflexive thematic analysis of Instagram posts using #meat, we examined how the cultural stereotype of “real men eat meat” is represented on social media, shedding light on the role of meat as a communication system within contemporary western societies. We identified three digital meat-masculinity scripts, expressing cultural associations between meat and masculinity, namely a healthy lifestyle, craftmanship, and taste. These scripts are represented by masculine meat symbols (i.e., how meat functions symbolically in the construction and representation of masculinity, especially in digital and media contexts): the fit male body, masculine meat capital, and the culinary meat gaze. The adoption of these notions in content on meat and masculinities serves as a way to express masculine identity, in order to obtain an ideal form of masculinity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 102039"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144896296","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}

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Investigating Musical Taxonomy in the era of Streaming Platforms: Insights from Rap music through actual consumption data 调查流媒体平台时代的音乐分类：从实际消费数据看说唱音乐

IF 2 2区社会学

Poetics Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102006

Myriam Boualami , Camille Roth

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Cultural critics as moral reputational entrepreneurs: Controversy, metaethical discourse, and authority in the documentary field 作为道德声誉企业家的文化批评家：纪录片领域的争议、元伦理话语和权威

IF 2 2区社会学

Poetics Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102019

Christine Delp

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“If NPR doesn’t see this as a crisis, I don’t know what it’ll take”: How journalists use digital platforms to make industry critiques “如果NPR不认为这是一场危机，我不知道会发生什么”：记者如何利用数字平台对行业进行批评

IF 2 2区社会学

Poetics Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102007

Laura Garbes , Thomas Marlow

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