Cultural Sociology
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🌟 Congratulations to the Winner 🌟 We are very excited to announce Linzhi Zhang (@DrLinzhi) as this year's winner for the CUS Sage Prize for her paper "Scenography and the Production of Artworks in Contemporary Art". Read the paper free access below! doi.org/10.1177/174997…

It's always a brave move to reclaim the title of a famous existing work, but this study - reviewed in @CulSoc - looks very interesting....
‘[The Global Rules of Art] pioneers a new approach in the sociology of art by focusing on the global challenges of the art world.’ Christian Morgner reviews Larissa Buchholz’s book below. doi.org/10.1177/174997…
We would like to thank all referees who took the time to review for our journal. Please find our letter of thanks below. doi.org/10.1177/174997…
‘Sapiro therefore repeatedly addresses questions of the relevance and accessibility of empirical material together with appropriate methods for their analyses’ Read @janvana12's review of The Sociology of Literature below. doi.org/10.1177/174997…

‘[The Global Rules of Art] pioneers a new approach in the sociology of art by focusing on the global challenges of the art world.’ Christian Morgner reviews Larissa Buchholz’s book below. doi.org/10.1177/174997…
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Christian Morgner reviews Larissa Buchholz’s book below.
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‘@KushaSefat, in Revolution of Things takes Latour and network-thinking on a full tour of state formation in Iran and the culture of martyrdom that is integral to the Islamic Republic of Iran.’ Read Younes Saramifar’s book review below. doi.org/10.1177/174997…

Some intriguing articles in the new issue of @CulSoc
Our December 2024 issue is now live! Find articles on performance theory, rural resistance, the contradictions of therapy culture and more below. journals.sagepub.com/toc/CUS/18/4
A really great paper!!!
Laura Eramian, Peter Mallory and Morgan Herbert ask how therapy culture might increasingly turn friendship into a reflexive object or something else to ‘optimize’. Read the full article #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1177/174997…
Laura Eramian, Peter Mallory and Morgan Herbert ask how therapy culture might increasingly turn friendship into a reflexive object or something else to ‘optimize’. Read the full article #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1177/174997…
Audrey Tuaillon Demésy analyses how Chez Narcisse, a bar in the east of France, is a social site of resistance and the role that DIY plays in making it such. Read her article now below in the December issue. doi.org/10.1177/174997…
Danny Kaplan suggests that a performance of relationship approach might equally account for societal solidarity and as a direct consequence of concrete social relationships. Read the full article below on performance theory below. doi.org/10.1177/174997…
Our December 2024 issue is now live! Find articles on performance theory, rural resistance, the contradictions of therapy culture and more below. journals.sagepub.com/toc/CUS/18/4

Thank you so much. Feel extremely honoured. It was great working with the journal. I also appreciate the effort of the reviewers and editors who made this article better!
🎉Sage Prize Nominee🎉 In ‘Accomplishing Reality Media’, Erik Hannerz, Veronika Burcar Alm, and David Wästerfors investigate the dramatization of crime news from the point of view of the participants. Read their Sage Prize nominated paper! @lunduniversity doi.org/10.1177/174997…
🎉Sage Prize Nominee 🎉 Michael Halewood (@mhalewood) argues that all judgements or statements about social class are inherently moral by linking Pierre Bourdieu and John Dewey. Read the Sage Prize nominated paper now! @Uni_of_Essex doi.org/10.1177/174997…
Huichuan Hu explores and discusses various ways in which spaces for cosplay are commodified in Japan in his new article, Staged Creativity and Co-creation of Meanings. Read below #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1177/174997…
Book Review Symposium📚 “This ethnography presents an outstanding analysis of why Black Caribbean students and their culture are read in opposing ways in New York and London.” Read Hugo Ceron-Anaya (@HugoCA15)’s review of The Culture Trap below. doi.org/10.1177/174997…

“The intellectually solid, empirically ground-breaking monograph, Passionate Work, delves into the professional life of dancers in the USA ‘who didn’t become stars’ but nevertheless love what they are doing.” Read @tian_jiayi_soc’s review below. doi.org/10.1177/174997…

🎉Sage Prize Nominee🎉 Linzhi Zhang’s Sage Prize nominated paper challenges the assumption in a classical sociology of art that artworks are created in the artist’s studio as independent and self-sufficient objects. Read how below. @CourtauldRes doi.org/10.1177/174997…
🎉Sage Prize Nominee🎉 In her Sage Prize nominated paper, Jessie Dong (@Yale) proposes the cinematic gap as a theoretical framework of cinematic performance and theorizes processes of civil interpretation and evaluation. Read the full article now below. doi.org/10.1177/174997…