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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101996

Neha Gondal

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Artists as change agents in cross-sector partnerships: A typology 艺术家作为跨部门合作伙伴关系中的变革推动者：一种类型学

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101998

Ellen Loots , Walter van Andel

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Networks and Artistic Status Orders in Cultural Fields: The Evolution of Hollywood Filmmaking 文化领域中的网络与艺术地位秩序：好莱坞电影制作的演变

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101985

Mark Wittek , Katharina Burgdorf

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The dual clustering of tastes and ties: Extending the notion of relational similarity in cultural fields 品味与关系的双重聚类：关系相似性概念在文化领域的扩展

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102003

Xinwei Xu , Alessandro Lomi , Christoph Stadtfeld

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Mapping relational structures in culture 在文化中映射关系结构

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102005

Marco Serino , Thierry Rossier , Elisa Klüger , Fabien Eloire

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Cultural power via contaminating dualities 通过二元性污染文化权力

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102000

Michael Lee Wood, Travis Ashby

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Professor-writers and machinist-painter-photographers: Investigating the duality between occupational categories and artistic hobbies 教授-作家和机械师-画家-摄影师：职业类别和艺术爱好之间的二元性的调查

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102001

Neha Gondal , Allison Wigen

{"title":"Professor-writers and machinist-painter-photographers: Investigating the duality between occupational categories and artistic hobbies","authors":"Neha Gondal , Allison Wigen","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Even though participation in the arts (a.k.a. hobbies) of employed persons has risen steadily since the early twentieth century, research has not systematically explored the relationship between occupations and hobbies. We address this gap by investigating the intersection and cultural co-constitution of these two forms of engagement by drawing on Breiger's influential work on duality. We introduce a machine-learning approach called association-rules to generate a two-mode network comprising occupations and hobbies using data from the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts. Our analysis shows that the relationship between the two constructs is not consistent with the cultural omnivorousness model. Instead, attributes of the two constructs like temporality and degree of collaborativeness shape their association with implications for their cultural significance. Pottery and painting, generally solo hobbies, are associated with most professions, but are the exclusive domain of gendered male, blue-collar occupations that have less autonomy on working hours. Collaborative music hobbies, entailing considerable commitment, on the other hand, are exclusively associated with occupations with such autonomy. Weaving and writing, portable hobbies that have a reputation of being ‘woke,’ are connected to white- and blue-collar sedentary jobs. Sharedness of hobbies and variability in their cultural significance have implications for the erosion and maintenance of cultural and social distance between occupational groups. Degree of collaborativeness, likewise, has implications for connectedness within hobby groups as well as visibility and embeddedness of occupational groups in local communities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 102001"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143643654","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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Organizing abundance and shuffling at festivals: the Ferrara Buskers Festival case 在节日中组织丰富和混乱：费拉拉街头艺人节案例

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101997

Paolo Ferri , Simone Napolitano , Luca Zan

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Taste on Facebook: Revisiting the omnivore–univore hypothesis using digital trace data Facebook上的味道：用数字追踪数据重新审视杂食-单食假说

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101968

Morten Fischer Sivertsen

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The dance of markets and movements: The emergence and development of dance genres in the US, UK, and the Netherlands, 1985–2005 市场与运动的舞蹈：1985-2005年美国、英国和荷兰舞蹈流派的出现与发展

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101970

Rens Wilderom, Alex van Venrooij

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