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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101983

Dongyoub Shin , Bo Kyung Kim , Hongseok Oh , Sunhyuk Kim

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What is the role of creative industries in the Anthropocene? An argument for planetary cultural policy 创意产业在人类世的角色是什么？全球文化政策的论据

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101971

Miikka Pyykkönen , Christiaan De Beukelaer

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Age and cultural differences in the relationship between reading and theory of mind 年龄和文化差异对阅读与心理理论的影响

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101984

Louise H. Phillips , Louisa Lawrie , Zuzana Suchomelova , Sara Heinämaa , Amy O'Dwyer , Min Hooi Yong

{"title":"Age and cultural differences in the relationship between reading and theory of mind","authors":"Louise H. Phillips , Louisa Lawrie , Zuzana Suchomelova , Sara Heinämaa , Amy O'Dwyer , Min Hooi Yong","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101984","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101984","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Numerous studies have shown a positive relationship between reading fiction and Theory of Mind (ToM) in children and young adults. However, there is little evidence to evaluate how reading habits relate to ToM in older adults. Also, nearly all studies exploring this topic have focused only on Western participants. In the current study of 229 participants, we tested whether age groups (young vs older adults) and cultural groups (British vs Malaysian adults) differ in their reading habits, and how reading habits related to socio-affective and cognitive ToM. We investigated both fiction and non-fiction reading habits. Our results showed that there was a positive relationship between fiction reading and socio-affective ToM across the whole sample. Associations between reading more fiction and ToM differed depending on the age group and cultural background of participants: only in the older Malaysian group was this correlation significant. Relationships between non-fiction reading and ToM were also positive in older Malaysians, but negative in older British adults. These results indicate that age and cultural groups differ in the relationship between reading habits and the ability to understand others’ mental states, and highlights the need for future research to consider diverse samples and more detailed analysis of reading habits.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 101984"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143322237","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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Making the collectivist organization: Creativity, conformity, and social closure 集体主义组织的形成：创造性、从众性与社会封闭性

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101982

Will Charles

{"title":"Making the collectivist organization: Creativity, conformity, and social closure","authors":"Will Charles","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101982","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101982","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork, in-depth interviews, and surveys, this study of a makerspace investigates social closure—processes by which groups maintain exclusive control over resources and opportunities—in an organization rejecting hierarchy and cultural conformity. This question is pertinent to organizations promoting collectivist and pluralist ideals. I found that despite espousing creativity and non-conformity, a culturally homogeneous in-group emerged in the organization. This highlights a tension between artistic and social critiques of capitalism, which are often espoused by collectivist organizations. The artistic critique challenges capitalism's instrumentalization of creativity, advocating for meaning and beauty in production. In contrast, the social critique targets inequalities and promotes inclusivity and justice. Members of the organization pursued the artistic critique through creative making but repressed a social critique. The organization's narrow focus on artistic critique led to a form of asceticism, limiting broader social impact. To counteract social closure and uphold collectivist ideals, organizations must actively prevent exclusive in-groups. Addressing economic disparities via alternative funding models and fostering mutual aid can mitigate unintentional hierarchies. Integrating artistic and social goals holistically by expanding the definition of creativity to include instrumental practices can bridge community divides.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 101982"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142989634","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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Status and Subfield: The Distribution of Sociological Specializations across Departments 现状与分支领域：社会学专业跨部门的分布

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101973

Timothy B. Elder , Austin C. Kozlowski

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Literary practices, capital structures and political position-taking: The Norwegian writers during World War II 文学实践、资本结构与政治立场：二战期间的挪威作家

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101981

Johs. Hjellbrekke , Pål Csaszni Halvorsen , Kjetil Ansgar Jakobsen , Sofie Arneberg

{"title":"Literary practices, capital structures and political position-taking: The Norwegian writers during World War II","authors":"Johs. Hjellbrekke , Pål Csaszni Halvorsen , Kjetil Ansgar Jakobsen , Sofie Arneberg","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101981","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101981","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Analyses of writers’ political orientations have typically focused on individual authors’ works and trajectories. Inspired by Bourdieu's field theory and by Sapiro's works on the French literary field, this article demonstrates how the Norwegian writers’ position-takings during WW II were related to their locations in two other sets of structures: the structures in the Norwegian field of literary practices in the 1930s and '40s, and their locations in cultural, economic and social capital hierarchies. Based on data on 308 writers we ask: How did the writers and intellectuals respond to democratic backsliding, loss of cultural autonomy and authoritarianism on the rise?</div><div>Three main literary oppositions were uncovered by way of MCA: Non-Fiction vs. Fiction, Traditional vs Modern literature and Popular vs. Other literature. These oppositions were structured along hierarchies of personal and inherited cultural capital, and of economic capital. The association between literary and political orientations was clear. Urban, modern-oriented writers with upper-class backgrounds had higher probabilities of partaking in resistance, while more marginal, tradition-oriented writers with a lower-class origin had higher probabilities of supporting the occupation; during WWII, the literary elite thus faced both an external shock and a challenge “from below”.</div><div>Out of eight literary clusters, five were political: Academics, Modernists, Proletarians, National Romanticists and Vitalists. Nazi-sympathizing or collaborating writers were overrepresented in latter two. But a Class Specific MCA revealed internal divisions among the Nazi-sympathizing or collaborating writers that did not mirror those found in the global space; distinct hierarchies were at work. When analyzing how a given constellation of factors might produce different outcomes across a population, the integration of MCA and CSA therefore offers a promising approach.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 101981"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143035201","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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Arts and cultural consumption and diversity research: A bibliometric analysis 艺术与文化消费与多样性研究：文献计量学分析

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101972

Manuel Cuadrado-García , Juan D. Montoro-Pons

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Measuring movement in cultural landscapes 测量文化景观中的运动

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101965

Nicolas Restrepo Ochoa , Turgut Keskintürk

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Careers in the global art field: Geo-capital and globalizer venues in the consecration of Central-Eastern European artists 在全球艺术领域的职业生涯：中欧和东欧艺术家奉献的地缘资本和全球化场所

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101961

Júlia Perczel, Balazs Vedres

{"title":"Careers in the global art field: Geo-capital and globalizer venues in the consecration of Central-Eastern European artists","authors":"Júlia Perczel, Balazs Vedres","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101961","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101961","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In our contemporary art field global institutional networks offer novel strategies for peripheral artists in their struggle for global recognition, bypassing the necessity of maximizing presence in the territorial core. We address the puzzle of how such novel artistic strategies bypassing core gatekeepers can succeed. In this article we analyze the way artists from Central-Eastern Europe strive for consecration via acquisition by the pinnacle museums – Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou and the MoMA – between 1990 and 2018. Our analysis is based on more than hundred thousand exhibition events of about 3500 artists, held at nearly ten thousand venues in 112 countries. We focus on network topology of co-exhibiting relations of venues and artists. We introduce two key concepts to understand success in the multiscalar global art field: geo-capital and the globalizer position. Geo-capital measures the territorial balance of a venue's topological neighbours, capturing a capacity to span boundaries, while the globalizer position marks those venues that can provide artists with global visibility against the territorial core-periphery spectrum on topological grounds. We show that a strategy built on venues in the globalizer position improves the likelihood of consecration more than any other factors. We contribute to prior research by showing the functioning of a relational form of territoriality, that relies on global networks, and provides a mechanism through which global institutional networks can function in relative vertical autonomy within the multiscalar global art field.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 101961"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142889276","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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Integrating geometric data analysis and network analysis by iterative reciprocal mapping. The example of the German field of sociology 利用迭代互反映射将几何数据分析与网络分析相结合。德国社会学领域的例子

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101947

Andreas Schmitz , Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg , Jonas Volle

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