Cultural Sociology and the Politics of Canonization: An Anglo-Canadian Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 174997552110484
Author(s):  
Kim de Laat ◽  
Allyson Stokes
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Cultural Sociology ◽  
Cultural Consumption ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Course Syllabi ◽  
Intellectual Traditions ◽  
Canadian Perspective ◽  
Survey Responses

This article offers a regional spotlight introduction to Anglo-Canadian cultural sociology. The question of what makes Canada unique has long preoccupied Canadian writers, artists, and policy makers, and is central to scholarly debates about Canadian sociology’s position relative to British, American, and other national sociologies, as well as the need for decolonization and diversification of the disciplinary canon. As a subfield, Anglo-Canadian cultural sociology receives little attention within these wider debates despite its emphasis on issues of cultural difference, identity, and evaluation. We provide an analysis of the dynamics of the field. Using course syllabi and survey data from instructors (N = 28), we examine whether there is a unique canon in Anglo-Canadian cultural sociology, and how cultural sociology is taught across Canada. Network analysis of texts assigned on syllabi and survey responses from cultural sociology instructors reveal, first, a thematic canon in Canadian cultural sociology, with a plurality of authors used to teach four main themes: identity and representation, cultural production, cultural consumption, and conceptualizing and measuring culture. Second, we find the positionality of Anglo-Canadian cultural sociology (with respect to both other national sociologies and neighboring subfields/disciplines) is uncertain and widely variant. Finally, survey responses concerning identity and representation suggest a reflexivity about the politics of canonization, and a gendered interest in decolonizing curricula. We conclude by arguing that a thematic canon in cultural sociology facilitates the maintenance of fuzzy boundaries with other subfields, national and Indigenous intellectual traditions, and a critical feminist lens.

scholarly journals The mutual specification of genres and audiences: Reflective two-mode centralities in person-to-culture data

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar Lizardo
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Cultural Sociology ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Criterion Validity ◽  
Measurement Framework ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Cultural Choices ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Recent developments at the intersection of cultural sociology and network theory suggest that the relations between persons and the cultural forms they consume can be productively analyzed using conceptual resources and methods adapted from network analysis. In this paper I seek to contribute to this developing line of thinking on the culture-networks link as it pertains to the sociology of taste. I present a general analytic and measurement framework useful for rethinking traditional survey (or population) based data on individuals and their cultural choices as a “two mode” persons X genres network. The proposed methodological tools allow me to develop a set of “reflective” metrics useful for ranking both persons and genres in terms of the pattern of choices and audience composition embedded in the cultural network. The empirical analysis shows that these metrics have both face and criterion validity, allowing us to extract useful information that would remain out of reach of standard quantitative strategies. I close by outlining the analytic and substantive implications of the approach.

The Role of Architecture on Tourism Industry

2011 ◽  
pp. 158-170
Author(s):  
Murat Çetin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Cultural Consumption ◽  
Potential Threat ◽  
Cultural Roots ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Global Economics

This chapter aims to shed light on the nature of architecture, its technological and cultural ramifications on tourism industry. It elucidates the background of issues regarding the interaction between the fields of cultural production (architecture) and cultural consumption (tourism). The chapter argues that power of tourism industry has reached, under the pressure of global economics, to a capacity to turn even daily architecture into instruments of touristic show. In this context, technology is utilized as an instrument to produce such iconography only as a surface articulation. Thus, architecture becomes a commodity of touristic consumption in this current socio-economic and cultural context. The pressure of tourism industry seems to create a significant split between the architecture and its location in terms of specific cultural roots. This tendency is discussed as a potential threat to sustainability of tourism industry itself since it damages its own very source, that is to say, richness of cultural differences.

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Selina C.F. Ho
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Cultural Economics ◽  
The State ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cultural Consumption ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
National Local

This chapter discusses the different modes of museum circuit of the three museums, and draws out the implications of the findings and the possible agendas for future research in three main areas: firstly, the effects of regulation by the state and economic agents at national, local and international levels, and in the context of cultural economics; secondly, the constitution of museum intermediaries and the capacity of their museological approaches and agency to transform the museum or/and society, together with the museum’s logic of cultural production, and cultural labour issues; thirdly, the main actors in the museum publics, the nature of their agency and its implications for cultural consumption.

Anaphoric Trajectories of Creative Processes

2017 ◽  
pp. 142-155
Author(s):  
Sara Malou Strandvad
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Cultural Sociology ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Creative Development ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Production Studies ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Development Processes

This chapter critically questions the strategy of applying the Actor-Network Theory to media studies. Arguing that an application of a fixed ANT-approach fundamentally opposes the ambition of Actor-Network Theory, this chapter outlines a different way of drawing inspiration from ANT. Based in the writings of the French cultural sociologist Antoine Hennion, who has been a pioneer in developing a cultural sociology inspired by ANT, and the recent writings of Bruno Latour addressing cultural production, the chapter suggests investigating the “anaphoric trajectories” of creative development processes. To illustrate this approach, the chapter analyzes the case of a failed film project and considers how the content of creative production processes may be incorporated into cultural production studies.

scholarly journals Useful Creativity: Vernacular Reviewing on the Video-Sharing Platform Vimeo

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Maarit Jaakkola
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Critique ◽  
Technical Equipment ◽  
Cultural Consumption ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
The One

This article intends to cast light on the phenomenon of non-institutionalised or vernacular reviewing by studying the review videos published on the video-sharing platform Vimeo. The data were automatically retrieved by searching for videos provided with the hashtag #review. The majority of these review videos (N = 1,273) were related to the technical equipment of filming and produced by filmmakers and enthusiastic amateurs interested in camera equipment and digital filming quality. The analysis describes the forms of reviewing in these videos and attempts to place them in the conceptual framework of reviewing, which, as is suggested in the article, reaches beyond the professional reviews commissioned by legacy media. Central questions are the delivery of an opinion or judgement, the imagined audience and the establishment of authority. Vimeo reviewers are characterised as both “professional vernacular” and “amateur vernacular” reviewers, reflecting a two-direction approach to reviewing, the one from cultural production (produsage) and the other from cultural consumption (presumption). The findings call for more conceptual elaboration of vernacularity in cultural critique.

scholarly journals Seeing the Forest from the Trees: A Novel Deep Learning-Driven Aggregate Embedding for Group-Level Analysis of Public Health Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Alexander MacLean ◽  
Yang Yang ◽  
Helen Chen ◽  
Alexander Wong
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
School Level ◽  
Group Level ◽  
School Students ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Specific Data ◽  
Data Points ◽  
Survey Responses

In the years since the COMPASS dataset initiative was begun, many important research questions have been investigated using its large amount of health information pertaining to high school students across Canada, with findings guiding many decisions made by policy makers [1]. However, to use traditional statistical methods, specific data points must be selected by researchers to include in the analysis, leading to possible unexpected relationships and connections across the study's 280 data points being missed. As well, most analysis is done on a per-student basis, while policies are often implemented at the school level, so understanding behaviours across a school's population can make it easier for school decision makers to interpret findings. Motivated by these goals, this study introduces a novel deep learning-driven aggregate embedding method to determine group-level representations for individual schools from student-level survey responses based on architecture introduced in Variational Autoencoders [2]. This study aims to produce a method which allows for new patterns to be identified in the COMPASS data and for the resulting embedded representations to be applied in future analysis.

scholarly journals GRASPING THE SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF EVENT EXPERIENCES: INTRODUCING THE EVENT SOCIAL INTERACTION SCALE (ESIS)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lénia Marques ◽  
Carla Borba ◽  
Janna Michael
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Interaction Ritual Chains ◽  
Interaction Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Multiple Interaction ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
Similar Experience

Experience has been widely recognised as an essential part of an event’s success, but few studies have analysed the processes underlying the event as social experience. This paper contributes to a better understanding of the social processes which make an event a social interaction platform. The social interaction processes that shape the event’s social experience is examined using a framework which brings together co-creation practices, group socialization and interaction ritual chains. This exploratory study investigates the social interaction processes that shape the event’s social experience, by developing a quantitative tool, the Event Social Interaction Scale (ESIS), which attempts to pinpoint and measure different social dimensions of the event experience. The ESIS was applied at a popular culture event, the festivities of São João in Northeast Brazil, and 625 survey responses were collected in 2016 and 2017. Findings suggest that multiple interaction rituals occur. People who are more directly and actively engaged in the event are more likely to be open for contact with unknown others. The event becomes a multi-dimensional platform where different types of social interaction are not only possible but fostered. The ESIS contributes to charting the footprint of the event as social experience, revealing a similar experience footprint across different years of the study. The ESIS and the implications of its processes for the event can be useful for academics, practitioners and policy-makers interested in understanding and facilitating better event social experiences.

scholarly journals Impact network analysis: Evaluating the success of interventions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen A Garrett
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Quality Of Information ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Fundamental Understanding ◽  
Genotype A

The success of intervention projects in ecological systems depends not only on the quality of a management strategy, but also how that strategy plays out among decision makers. Impact network analysis (INA) is a framework for evaluating the likely regional success of interventions before, during, and after projects, for project implementers, policy makers, and funders. INA integrates across three key system components: (a) the quality of a management strategy and the quality of information about it, (b) the socioeconomic networks through which managers learn about the management strategy and decide whether to use it, and (c) the biophysical network that results from those decisions. A common example where INA can be useful is management of an invasive (or endangered) species or genotype. A management strategy to reduce (or increase) the probability of establishment of a species may or may not be adopted by each land manager in a region, depending on the quality of the management strategy and the information they have available about it. The resulting management landscape will determine whether the intervention project is successful, in terms of how much of the region the species can spread through and the resulting effects on the desired ecosystem services. INA can be applied in general to evaluate the success of immediate intervention strategies, and to contribute to fundamental understanding about what makes interventions successful.

scholarly journals The Complex Pathway towards Farm-Level Sustainable Intensification: An Exploratory Network Analysis of Stakeholders’ Knowledge and Perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2578
Author(s):  
Evgenia Micha ◽  
Owen Fenton ◽  
Karen Daly ◽  
Gabriella Kakonyi ◽  
Golnaz Ezzati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Dynamic System ◽  
Sustainable Intensification ◽  
Fuzzy Cognitive Maps ◽  
Negative Externalities ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Farm Level ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
Systems Thinking Approach

Farm-level sustainable intensification of agriculture (SIA) has become an important concept to ensuring food security while minimising negative externalities. However, progress towards its achievement is often constrained by the different perceptions and goals of various stakeholders that affect farm management decisions. This study examines farm-level SIA as a dynamic system with interactive components that are determined by the interests of the stakeholders involved. A systems thinking approach was used to identify and describe the pathways towards farm-level SIA across the three main pillars of sustainability. An explanatory network analysis of fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs) that were collectively created by representative groups of farmers, farm advisors and policy makers was performed. The study shows that SIA is a complex dynamic system, affected by cognitive beliefs and particular knowledge within stakeholder groups. The study concludes that, although farm-level SIA is a complex process, common goals can be identified in collective decision making.

scholarly journals Risk in agriculture: An overview of the theoretical insights and recent development trends during last decade – A review

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (No. 9) ◽  
pp. 435-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lina Novickytė
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Recent Decade ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Scientometric Analysis ◽  
Development Trends ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
The Web

The main purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed overview of the theoretical insights and recent development trends on risk in agriculture. It focuses on the synthesis and analysis of the research studies published over the period from 2008 through 2018 and aims to identify major findings obtained over the recent decade and determine the areas for future research. This paper reviews a total of 397 unique publications retrieved from the international journals accessible in the Web of Science database. Based on different criteria deployed by the scientometric analysis, the selected articles have been reviewed and classified. The bibliometric analysis includes the citation volumes, authors, names of journals, research areas, affiliations, and contributing countries. The network analysis includes the examination of keywords. This article provides an opportunity for scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers to understand and manage risk in agriculture and at the same time presents a roadmap for future research in this field.

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