Showing papers in "Poetics in 2008"

TL;DR: In this article, a critical assessment of Pierre Bourdieu's theory of social differentiation in advanced societies as a multi-dimensional phenomenon is carried out based on Danish survey data subjected to correspondence analysis, which leads to a discussion of four core questions: first, are there signs of a strong individualism and, correspondingly, a weak social structuring of lifestyles?

TL;DR: The authors examine how openness to cultural diversity is expressed in the field of cultural consumption and find that people who select many items on a list of cultural preferences and practices in survey research are more open than those who select fewer items.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider cultural practices and preferences in terms of intra-individual behavioural variation and arrive at a model of the social world which does not neglect individual singularities and avoids the cultural caricaturing of social groups.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of cultural tastes and participation in the UK to explore the characteristics of the cultural omnivore was carried out and the findings from a new study of culture and participation were explored.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use a well-known division of the cultural field into three distinct cultural schemes: highbrow, pop, and folk to identify a number of combinatorial taste patterns and distinguish between different types of cultural omnivores.

TL;DR: The authors found that women are portrayed as having fairer complexions on average than men of the same race and that complexion ideals are related to dominant attitudes toward gender roles and to larger cultural meanings given to lightness and darkness.

TL;DR: In this article, a micro-qualitative approach is used to explore the apparent rise of eclecticism among the new upper middle class in Canada. But the authors focus mainly on the principles of classification, hierarchical ordering and legitimation applied when dealing with the various components of repertoires.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of parental social background and family composition on various types of parental media socialization were analyzed, and it was shown that high-status families report more extensive parental media involvement in all high-brow and guidance activities.

TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship between social status and culture as formulated in Peterson's omnivore-univore thesis and found that high-status people dislike many high status as well as low-status cultures.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors give an explicit formulation of Bourdieu's theory and develop a test, using indicators derived from the work Distinction, and apply their model to data from lower class members living in distressed neighborhoods in Cologne, Germany.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used time constraints related to the working hours of couples to explain the frequency of their individual as well as joint high-brow cultural participation and found that full-time working couples probably prioritize their joint cultural participation.

TL;DR: For instance, this article found that patients, visitors, and staff wrote in a prayer book at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital between 1999 and 2005, and the majority of these writers imagined a God who is accessible, listening, and a source of emotional and psychological support.

TL;DR: This article found that respondents' selection of appropriate prayer targets is influenced by characteristics of individuals' social profiles, including not simply religious affiliation but gender, marital status, and occupation; individuals' interactive intent, i.e. the purpose or goal of their prayers and individuals' prayer "histories" (i.e., their perceptions of the targets that regularly respond to their appeals).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether film viewers recognize four basic genres (comic, drama, action and nonfiction) on the basis of genre-typical event cues or of genretypical filmic realization cues of events.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how the health and wealth message might differ across countries by analyzing the television programs produced by the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, for Rio de Janeiro and New York City audiences.

TL;DR: For instance, this article examined the cultural content of prayer and related aspects of religion in contexts including advocacy groups, hospitals, congregations, the Internet, homilies in mosques, religious television, children's books, art, testimonials, inspirational guides, and interviews.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the pricing of visual art from the perspective of artists themselves and identified the most common factors involved in pricing decisions: size, expenses, status, market factors, and the artist's own perception of value.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed 88 speeches from 28 Republican and Democratic presidential nominating conventions (1952-2004) and found that freedom and liberty terms were most often used in reference to Communism, economic freedom, individual liberty from government, and in ways that did not reference anything specific.

TL;DR: This article explored how some modern Americans are taught to listen for and hear the response of an immanent, non-anthropomorphic God and argued that scholars concerned about religion and cognitions should pay more attention to the specific practices that emanate from and reproduce dissimilar theological understandings of God.

TL;DR: The authors explored the way in which moral metaphors are used in one set of cultural objects (prayers, liturgies, and other worship resources prepared for religious services around pro-life and workers' rights issues).

TL;DR: This paper investigated the use of civilising claims at three moments in the British theatre history and concluded that the analysis of contemporary cultural policy should consider such historical consequences of culture's civilizing claims, which now set an important context where the policy is perceived and implemented.

TL;DR: This paper found that the language used to describe the prayers frequently included domain juxtapositions that emphasized the fragility of the object of prayer and thus provided ways of implying the power of God without having to include specific descriptions of that power.

TL;DR: This paper examined a sample of 100 Sunday school books published in the 19th century and found evidence that adults engage in boundary work to separate adults from children and the religious from the secular.

TL;DR: The authors applied research on minimally counterintuitive concepts, together with work on theological correctness, to a dataset of 295 Islamic sermons from 2001 to 2006 prepared by the Directorate of Religious Affairs, a government agency in Turkey charged with managing the country's mosques and religious education.

TL;DR: The authors connect research in social psychology, psycholinguistics, and discourse analysis to develop two hypotheses about character description: the use of individually specific names, rather than group names, may mask the symbolic power created by repeated descriptions of co-group members as positive agents.

TL;DR: The authors compared the experiences of artists in the Soviet Union with the subjects of the American studies to examine how and if the practice of art as prayer changes in a context where religious activity is banned.

TL;DR: The authors used online prayer requests for incarcerated and deployed individuals to investigate how individuals evaluate the social worth of absent loved ones, and found that describing incarceration as central to the absent individual's identity in prayer requests was associated with a more negative assessment of the incarcerated, while mentioning religious faith is associated with positive evaluation.

TL;DR: The Azusa Street Revival in 1906 introduced new theological and practical challenges for believers: namely the Baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of tongues and divine healing as mentioned in this paper, which implicitly and explicitly taught believers how to "pray through" to receive baptism for the soul and to utter the "prayer of faith" to accept divine healing for the body.