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Emotions in a Time of Radical Change: Untangling Narratives of Pride and Achievements in Post-1989/1991 Lithuania and East Germany 剧变时期的情感：解读 1989/1991 年后立陶宛和东德的自豪与成就叙事

Cultural Sociology Pub Date : 2024-04-19 DOI: 10.1177/17499755241231059

Jogilė Ulinskaitė, Till Hilmar, Monika Verbalyte

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Making Memory: Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland 制造记忆：北爱尔兰的血腥星期天

Cultural Sociology Pub Date : 2024-04-15 DOI: 10.1177/17499755241241590

Ronald Eyerman

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Cultural Sociology Pub Date : 2024-04-15 DOI: 10.1177/17499755241237014

Marc Perrenoud, Pierre Bataille

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Investigating Collective Emotional Structures: Theoretical and Analytical Implications of the ‘Deep Story’ Concept 调查集体情感结构：深度故事 "概念的理论和分析意义

Cultural Sociology Pub Date : 2024-04-09 DOI: 10.1177/17499755241231014

Maja Sawicka

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Nothing Changed, Nothing Gained? Emotional Responses towards European Integration in the Memoirs of Polish Farmers 没有改变，就没有收获？波兰农民回忆录中对欧洲一体化的情感反应

Cultural Sociology Pub Date : 2024-04-09 DOI: 10.1177/17499755241230575

Mirosława Radowska-Lisak, Magdalena Kowalska

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Iconic Extensions and Memetic Audiences: The MAGA Hat as a Site of Conflict in the US Public Sphere 标志性延伸和记忆性受众：作为美国公共领域冲突场所的 MAGA 帽子

Cultural Sociology Pub Date : 2024-02-21 DOI: 10.1177/17499755231225690

Vanessa K. Bittner

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Cultural Practices and Socio-Digital Inequalities in Europe: Towards a Unified Research Framework in Cultural Participation Studies 欧洲的文化实践与社会数字不平等：建立文化参与研究的统一研究框架

Cultural Sociology Pub Date : 2024-02-19 DOI: 10.1177/17499755231222520

Predrag Cvetičanin, Lucas Page Pereira, M. Petrić, Inga Tomić-Koludrović, Frédéric Lebaron, Željka Zdravković

{"title":"Cultural Practices and Socio-Digital Inequalities in Europe: Towards a Unified Research Framework in Cultural Participation Studies","authors":"Predrag Cvetičanin, Lucas Page Pereira, M. Petrić, Inga Tomić-Koludrović, Frédéric Lebaron, Željka Zdravković","doi":"10.1177/17499755231222520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17499755231222520","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we propose a unified research framework for studying the impact of social and digital inequalities on four types of cultural practices: offline art-related practices, offline everyday cultural practices, online art-related practices, and online everyday cultural practices. In contrast to the research traditions that study them separately, we argue that the subject of further research should be the interplay between cultural practices in offline and online domains and that the impact of social and digital inequalities on cultural participation should be studied jointly. Based on empirical evidence from a large-scale research project carried out in nine European countries, we demonstrate the benefits of sidestepping what we see as a strange disconnect between the research traditions studying cultural practices and inequalities in the offline and online spheres separately. The results of our research show that only the inclusion of online and everyday cultural practices in the analysis does justice to the complexity of contemporary cultural participation and its relation to what we refer to as socio-digital inequalities.","PeriodicalId":505450,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140450628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Desire and Modesty in Post-Soviet Expectation for the Western Standard of Life: Contrasting and Empowering Narratives of Latvian Emigrants and Latvians who Stayed at Home 后苏联时期对西方生活标准的期望与谦逊：拉脱维亚移民与留在国内的拉脱维亚人的对比与赋权叙述

Cultural Sociology Pub Date : 2024-02-19 DOI: 10.1177/17499755231219718

Iveta Ķešāne

{"title":"Desire and Modesty in Post-Soviet Expectation for the Western Standard of Life: Contrasting and Empowering Narratives of Latvian Emigrants and Latvians who Stayed at Home","authors":"Iveta Ķešāne","doi":"10.1177/17499755231219718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17499755231219718","url":null,"abstract":"Post-Soviet subjects have often been portrayed as ‘winners’ or ‘losers’ of post-Soviet transformations, where those socioeconomically successful are seen as winners while the socioeconomically weak are losers. Such language of ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ carry neoliberal scripts of success, which are based on the western upper-middle-class standard. The ideas of neoliberalism also dictated the post-Soviet transformations in Latvia. From the perspective of meaning-making and emotion, this research seeks to complicate the dominant narrative of winners and losers to describe the effects of the post-Soviet transformations. Empirically, this study compares narratives of post-Soviet Latvian émigrés towards the West with those who remain to unravel deeper understandings of success as related to our perceptions of ‘livable life.’ Emigration tends to be narrated as a story of winning since it allows fulfilling expectations and desires for a ‘livable life’ migrants could not fulfill at home. However, those who remain at home, even under precarious circumstances, share their experiences as winners’ stories. While emigrants in their search for ‘livable life’ follow the western standard of good life, those at home speak of ‘livable life’ in terms of modesty. I interpret both stories as empowerment narratives that are interchangeable and coexistent.","PeriodicalId":505450,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140449607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Book Review: Revolution of Things: The Islamism and Post-Islamism of Objects in Tehran 书评物的革命：德黑兰物品的伊斯兰主义和后伊斯兰主义

Cultural Sociology Pub Date : 2024-01-30 DOI: 10.1177/17499755231220723

Younes Saramifar

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