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Poetics Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101882

Yang Gao

{"title":"“Just like friends”: Chinese young adults’ interpretation of parent–child relationships on American TV shows","authors":"Yang Gao","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101882","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The emergence of individualization in contemporary Chinese society has transformed parent–child dynamics. This article examines one frequently acknowledged, but rarely scrutinized, individualizing force in this process: the consumption of Western popular media. Based on 29 in-depth interviews with college students in Beijing in 2009–2010, I investigate how members of China's first only-child generation reflexively engaged American television shows to assess their own parent–child relationships during a pivotal time of social change in China. While watching US TV inspired a desire among respondents for the individualistic and democratic family dynamics featured on screen, many were critical of what they saw and came to appreciate Chinese family practices more. Beyond comparing their lived realities with specific narratives on US TV, respondents often extrapolated individual circumstances to broader social issues and cultural traditions. Thus, US TV presented new alternatives for family life that fostered a reflexive “social imagination” among young Chinese, allowing them a deeper understanding of personal experiences by situating them within a constellation of social institutions, economic systems, and cultural values. By analyzing viewers’ meaning-making of American television shows within a Chinese context, this article illuminates how parent–child relationships have been shaped by an interplay between local norms and global possibilities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 101882"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140878573","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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Seeing is believing: Performing transparency in the informal organic market in China 眼见为实：中国非正规有机市场的透明度表现

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Poetics Pub Date : 2024-03-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101886

Shumeng Li

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Creating careers in the kingdom of content. The platform-dependence and platform-ambivalence of digital cultural labour in Norway 在内容王国创造职业生涯。挪威数字文化劳动的平台依赖性和平台矛盾性

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Poetics Pub Date : 2024-03-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101885

Ole Marius Hylland, Heidi Stavrum, Mari T. Heian, Bård Kleppe, Kristine P. Miland

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Farewell on screen: Uncertainty in parasocial relationships and breakups with fictional media characters✰,✰✰ 银幕上的告别：寄生关系中的不确定性以及与虚构媒体角色的分手✰,✰✰。

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Poetics Pub Date : 2024-03-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101874

Michelle Möri

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From Macrogenres to microgenres via relationality 通过关系性从宏源到微源

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Poetics Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101868

Omar Lizardo

{"title":"From Macrogenres to microgenres via relationality","authors":"Omar Lizardo","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101868","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Recent work in the sociology of taste has begun to grapple with the relational properties of traditional survey-based data using techniques inspired by network analysis. Despite productive results from this endeavor, critics rightly question the face and ecological validity of the vague macrogenre labels included in standard arts participation surveys (e.g., Classical, Rock, Rap) which feed into these novel methods. In this paper, I propose a link-clustering approach for discovering focused microgenres from standard survey-based information on cultural tastes, exploiting the underlying relational patterns realized by the indirect connectivity structure of genres (via people) in a two-mode network. The link-clustering approach partially answers two of the challenges of macrogenre critics: The fact that actual genres are overlapping and not crisply bounded and that there is hidden heterogeneity within the broad labels we usually focus on. To showcase the fruitfulness of the proposed approach, I engage in two “case studies” featuring the vague macro genres of “Heavy Metal” and “Latin/Salsa” music and show the focused microgenres produced by the link clustering procedure are segmented in ways that help resolve puzzles that have emerged in previous work.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 101868"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X2400007X/pdfft?md5=a8698df57907960752facbc1e7528bd5&pid=1-s2.0-S0304422X2400007X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139694015","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}

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Coagents as intermediaries in the book industry 作为图书业中介的凝固剂

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Poetics Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101867

Paul Crosby, Jordi McKenzie

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A deep dive into the collaborative networks of Yacht Rock 深入了解游艇摇滚的合作网络

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Poetics Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101872

Tony H. Grubesic , Edward Helderop , Bhajleen Kaur

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Social capital and the intergenerational transmission of cultural capital: How parents’ social networks influence children's accumulation of cultural capital 社会资本与文化资本的代际传承：父母的社交网络如何影响子女的文化资本积累

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Poetics Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101873

Andreas Roaldsnes

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The racial formation not taken: Occupational careers and the making of jazz album covers, 1950–1969 未被采纳的种族形成：职业生涯与爵士乐专辑封面的制作，1950-1969 年

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Poetics Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101870

Barış Büyükokutan

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Professional patios, emotional studios: Locating social ties in European art residences 专业的庭院，情感的工作室：欧洲艺术住宅中的社会关系定位

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Poetics Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101869

Nikita Basov , Dafne Muntanyola-Saura , Sergi Méndez , Oleksandra Nenko

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