scholarly journals Success and failure of the sociology of culture? Bringing the arts back

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera L. Zolberg
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Culture ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Sociology Of Art ◽  
Sociological Studies ◽  
Sociology Of Arts ◽  
Crucial Part

This articles brings up the most recent, internal discussions among researchers in the field of the sociology of arts, more precisely the thiking of experts who participated in a forum of culture organized in 2001. In her writing, Vera Zolberg accentuates, overall, the need for sociology of art to retain both its humanistic and scientific roots. She reminds that sociology of culture has developed from the sociology of art in recent decades. Next, she summarizes the tendencies and interests of researchers in the forum, by showing the fluidity of its possibilities and creative capacities. She mentions the most recent production in the field, proving that aesthetic elements play a crucial part in the sociological studies about the arts. According to Vera Zolberg, it is time to bring the arts back.

Continuity in Discontinuity: The Recurrent Motif of Cultural Autonomy in the Development of Czech Sociology of Culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 174997552199963
Author(s):  
Marek Skovajsa
Keyword(s):  
Critical Mass ◽  
Cultural Sociology ◽  
Sociology Of Culture ◽  
Relative Autonomy ◽  
Cultural Autonomy ◽  
Heterogeneous Landscape ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Prague School ◽  
Art And Society ◽  
Recurrent Motif

This article analyses the development of the sociology of culture in Czechia. Its focus is on the sociology of the arts and cultural sociology, which, it is argued, are connected through the notion of the relative autonomy of cultural structures. While the Czech sociology of culture may have been rendered less dynamic by the lack of a critical mass of sociologists specialising in this area and by the country’s frequent political upheavals and its isolation from the international circulation of ideas, it has experienced moments of considerable vitality. Three periods in the development of the field are identified here, each of them marked by a movement toward a stronger and more sociologically adequate conceptualisation of cultural autonomy: (1) from the diffuse culturalism of the field’s founding figures to the functionalist theory of the interwar sociologist Inocenc Arnošt Bláha, whose view of the relationship between art and society was influenced by the work of the Prague School of Structuralism; (2) from the cultural reductionism of Marxist-Leninist theory after 1948 to the eclectic sociology of culture and the arts of the late socialist period; (3) from the demise of this transitional form of a sociology of culture in the 1990s to the increasingly internationalised but also heterogeneous landscape of the 2010s, which is constituted by a semi-institutionalised centre of cultural sociology at Brno and small groups or individuals in Prague and other academic locales. The thread of continuity in an otherwise discontinuous historical development is found in the recurrent motif of the relative autonomy of culture which the Czech sociology of culture absorbed through its exposure to art and literary theory.

scholarly journals A Sociological Study on Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and All My Sons, Based on Georgy Lukacs’s Theories

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Pakdaman Shahri
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Modern Drama ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Independent Field ◽  
Potential Map ◽  
19Th And 20Th Century ◽  
Sociological Studies ◽  
Sociology Of Arts ◽  
All My Sons ◽  
Death Of A Salesman

Society and its human relations have always had a mutual connection with arts and culture; thus, the majority of artistic creations have always reflected images of society in the very heart of them. Sociological Studies of art, as an independent field does have a long history, however with the rise of modern social fields of study in the 19th and 20th century, there has been a significant growth in sociological studies.Georgy Lukacs as a pioneer theorist in the sociology of arts and literature has led a series of studies in the field of modern drama. This study has attempted to analyze Arthur Miller’s two significant plays, Death of a Salesman and All My Sons, based on Lukacs’s theories, along with discovering the methods, which Miller has depicted to process and interweave social concepts and phenomena within his works. This being done, a potential map has been drawn as a clear sample for dramatists of the modern era of playwriting on how to relate to social and cultural issues, not only in a descriptive method but in an analytical, critical way.

scholarly journals The Values of Russians in a Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 178-185
Author(s):  
Tatyana V. Fomicheva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Sociology Of Culture ◽  
Dynamic Changes ◽  
Regulatory Documents ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Comparison Of The Results ◽  
Sociological Studies

The publication is aimed at studying the transformation of the values of Russians during a pandemic. Scope of the results: analysis of the dynamics (transformation) of the values of Russians during the COVID-19 pandemic. Subject: a study of the dynamic changes in the values of Russians. The method for obtaining empirical data is a secondary analysis of information, including data from sociological studies, regulatory documents, including legislative acts of the Russian Federation. The purpose of this publication: to describe the dynamic changes in the structure of values of Russians. The result of the work: a description of the transformation of the values of Russians in the context of changes in the external circumstances of life (pandemic, external environmental challenges). The scientific novelty of the publication lies in the author’s understanding of the influence of the conditions of selfisolation on changes in the values of Russians, aggregation and comparison of the results of sociological research on value issues, legislative acts. The results can be used to innovate training courses on sociology of culture, axiology.

scholarly journals Of Sound and Flavour – Revisiting the Notion of Material for the Cultural Sociological Analysis of Art Domains

2020 ◽  
pp. 174997552096960
Author(s):  
Isabelle Darmon
Keyword(s):  
Joint Attention ◽  
Cultural Sociology ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Sociology Of Art ◽  
Domains Of Life ◽  
Modes Of Engagement

This article proposes a possible path for a materialist cultural sociology of art, focusing on the dynamics of art(s) domains and harnessing Adorno’s dialectical notion of material anew. I seek to establish links between dynamics of the arts domains and the fostering of specific modes of engagement with them – and, potentially, stances in other domains of life. I argue that a return to Adorno’s notion of (musical) material allows for such connections to be made: the ‘material’ is where the dynamics of the specific arts domains are inscribed; but it is also what is engaged with – by composers and artists as well as by interpreters, performers and publics. A dialectical material lens seems well suited for the critical study of the dynamic of arts domains in the 20th and 21st centuries, given the multiple artistic ‘breaks’ proclaimed. Focusing on some well-known movements in music and cuisine which sought to ‘emancipate’, ‘democratise’, and ‘diversify’ sounds and flavours, I analyse the processes through which they produced sound and flavour anew. I suggest that sounds and flavours themselves have become the carriers of logics relevant to music and cuisine, and that they have come to imperiously command modes of commitment (from composers and chefs, performers, listeners and diners alike) that evince specific stances. Through this necessarily sketchy survey, I provide indications that broader, cross-cutting cultural dynamics may be at stake. Overall, I seek to make clear what theoretical steps are afforded by the joint attention to materiality and the dynamic of art domains.

scholarly journals Art at the crossroads: The arts in society and the sociology of art

Poetics ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria D. Alexander ◽  
Anne E. Bowler
Keyword(s):  
The Arts ◽  
Sociology Of Art

Development of Sociological Concepts of Attributes of Consciousness Manipulation

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-64
Author(s):  
V. N. Saenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Sociology Of Culture ◽  
Relevant Topic ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Sociological Studies

The article studies the development of sociological opinions on the definition and signs of manipulation within the framework of the theory of manipulation of consciousness. The study of manipulation of consciousness has been a popular and relevant topic of many scientific sociological studies since the second half of the XX century. There are many fundamental and applied works on this topic, in which manipulation is studied from the points of view of social political science, social psychology, social philosophy and sociology particularly in its sections like sociology of culture, sociological processes, sociology of management.

scholarly journals Horace Pippins konst

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-143
Author(s):  
Mats Trondman
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Life History ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Surplus Value ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Race Politics ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Sociology Of Art ◽  
White Gaze ◽  
Art For Art's Sake

The article focuses on the African-American painter Horace Pippin (1888-1946). By using a cultural sociologically informed approach it connects his life – how Pippin became an artist –and art – what his art can mean to us – with the aim of understanding how an art for art’s sake (konstens egenvärde) can be related to, yes, even make up the presupposition for, an art for art’s surplus value (konstens mervärde) concerning issues of race, politics, the arts and diversity. The guiding question is what we can learn from the African-American philosopher Cornell West’s analysis of the meaning of Pippin’s art, which in turn is deeply informed by the sociologist W.E.B Du Bois’ (1868-1963) concept of “double consciousness”; how Pippin paints an African-American everyday life beyond the white gaze. Through such an understanding of Pippin’s, in his own words, “art’s life history, that is my art”, the article also provides an idea of what sociology of art and art didactics might be.

Musical taste and ageing

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
JILL HARRISON ◽  
JOHN RYAN
Keyword(s):  
Age Groups ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Later Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sociology Of Culture ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Musical Taste ◽  
Musical Genres

ABSTRACTThe purpose of this study was to explore musical taste patterns in old age. Having musical tastes, defined as individual preferences for certain musical genres, has been theorised as being a relational tool, something that can be used to negotiate social situations and interpersonal exchanges with others. Taste not only helps to make sense out of the endless array of products available on the cultural menu, but is also through consumption and display a way of signalling group membership, social location, identity and self. These concepts are important throughout the lifecourse, yet relatively unexplored in later life. What are the taste patterns of older adults and how do they compare to the musical preferences of other age groups? To address these questions we analysed data from the United States national Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA), a repeated cross-sectional survey, for the years 1982, 1992 and 2002. In each year, musical tastes displayed a positive relationship with age up to 55 years of age. The results indicate that across the three survey years, at older ages there was a negative relationship between tastes and age. We offer explanations for these results using theories from the sociology of culture and social gerontology.

Intervenção social pelas/através das artes: Predisposições, desafios e propostas

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 52-65
Author(s):  
Salomé Uribe
Keyword(s):  
Life Stories ◽  
Social Intervention ◽  
Sociology Of Culture ◽  
Social Interventions ◽  
Resistance Strategies ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
Do It Yourself

Starting from a bibliographic gap about people who intervene socially through and by the arts, without an academic canon, the sociology of culture and the sociology of the arts intersected in a work of sociological investigation. This crossing is the inspiration for the artists' singular biographies, to consider the social journey of the individuals as the explanatory/interpretative variable of their modes of social intervention by the arts. Throughout the construction of four life stories, we try to understand how ethos and practices simultaneously configure social interventions by the arts, namely through do-it-yourself (DIY) spaces, daily creativity, and identity resistance strategies. What are the common characteristics among these social intervention agents? What predispositions, challenges and proposals can we present? That is how we try to contribute to its conceptualization and recognition.

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