Showing papers in "Poetics in 2010"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the valence of information about the hero affected the level of identification and the time of deeds of a character in a movie, but not the identification.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the experiences and emotional responses of interviewees to their working conditions in three cultural industries (the television industry, the recording industry and the magazine industry) and found evidence of feelings of victimisation and anxiety.

TL;DR: This analysis suggests that in spite of very important differences in emphasis and explanatory range, toolkit and strong practice-theoretical approaches are complementary, although the specific types of modal situation for which each of them is best suited need to be more clearly specified.

TL;DR: The authors discuss several recent works that constitute a new and powerful page in cognitive sociology, and more broadly, in the study of culture and cognition, and discuss how sociologists are challenging such boundaries and pursuing a new path.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the levels of cultural capital possessed by first-generation college students and their non-first-generation peers and find that family cultural capital, cultural classes, and the number of ways parents helped in the college application process are all significant for four-year college enrollment, and parents' help and students receiving assistance at school with their college applications are significant for graduation.

TL;DR: The authors analyzes the effects of globalization in the book market from the standpoint of linguistic diversity, as assessed by the number of books translated from and into different languages, using Bourdieu's theory of the field of publishing.

TL;DR: The sociology of culture has happily been able to get by without any strict definitions of culture, but most of us seem to assume that culture is some sort of complex cognitive web (say of signs or symbols) that is largely shared across persons and mirrored in aspects of their interiority as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, a processual approach in which structure and culture are seen as intertwined and interdependent formations is proposed. But it is not yet clear how meanings come to be, then build into process, and become integrated in a set of constructs of differing scopes, scales, and levels collectively known as culture.

TL;DR: In this article, the fashion modeling industry has long been criticized for using excessively thin and exclusively Anglo-looking models in advertising and runway shows, and why is the fashion model aesthetic defined so narrowly?

TL;DR: In this paper, a discourse analysis of elite music critics' taste for rap music was conducted, and they found that critics base their judgments of the genre on three place-based criteria, that rap must be "emplaced" to be meaningful, "ghettoes" are central to rap's meaningfulness, and international scenes are privileged as politically and aesthetically more important than American scenes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored cultural omnivorousness in music and literature in Finland, one of the so-called Nordic welfare states, based on nationally representative survey data, and examined for respondents' likings of different genres.

TL;DR: The authors contextualize that effort in intersecting intellectual trends: the emerging relational sociology of networks and meanings, which has progressed steadily since the 1990s, and the diverse enterprise of sociology of language, which is much less established in the U.S. given space limitations, they acknowledge others' work but concentrate on Harrison White's turn to language and linguistics, which influenced all the papers herein.

TL;DR: The authors found that readings are crucial to poetry economies because they foster and maintain distribution networks for contemporary poetry in a global marketplace that tends to ‘squeeze out’ forms of art that lack broad commercial appeal.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the question of how researchers could empirically depict and measure framing tasks and frame components by focusing on the linguistic properties of social movement texts, using semantic grammars as a possible way to craft linguistically based coding schemes able to extract collective action frames, as organic systems of meaning from social movement discourses.

TL;DR: The theoretical work of Granovetter on the strength of weak social ties needs to be extended to the study of cultural objects and relations as discussed by the authors, and the tie that binds an actor to a cultural taste might be strong (purposive, intensive in time or commitment, fostered by a tightly integrated community bound by social symbols and representations) or weak (banal, non-instrumental,non-demanding, non exclusive).

TL;DR: In this article, a between-subject experiment involving 125 students was conducted to test the constitution of sadness and enjoyment in three versions of a sad-ending film, and the results indicated significant differences between the three versions with respect to sadness, situational references, meta-appraisals, and enjoyment as meta-emotion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how recording companies, in the Netherlands, classify domestic music products and examined differences and similarities in the genre-specification of 'local' products compared to the practices in the international music industry.

TL;DR: This article revisited the high culture model of Paul DiMaggio by taking as its empirical reference the experience of opera in Italy, particularly the history of one of the foremost institutions of the operatic world, the theater La Scala, from the late 1700s through the early 1900s.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the spatial configuration of our environment facilitates particular cognitive modes and that the structure of the space and the articulation of that structure interact to produce different modes of thought.

TL;DR: This paper examined the effect of protagonist gender on reader evaluations of excerpts from novels and found that both men and women rated texts higher on the story-world items when they had a male protagonist, inconsistent with the gender-match prediction.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether enrolment in the course CKV1 affects cultural participation and attitudes towards the arts 2-6 years after the students have completed the course.

TL;DR: In this article, a theory-rich alternative is Bourdieu's "social space" approach, which is also based on lifestyle characteristics, which can generate a very detailed audience segmentation, including expressive modes of television product consumption.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed the sociocognitive organization of meteorological perception and expertise via the notion of screenwork in the hope that it may provide a common constructivist ground on which sociologists and neuroscientists will be able to comfortably study visual perception at work.

TL;DR: The concept of a children's culture emerged both in the sociology of childhood and some national cultural policies in the 1970s, and has persisted since, although with changing definitions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use a unique theoretical lens that incorporates work from sociology and cognitive psychology in order to address the question of how various forces (both institutional and internal) propel actors to switch from one role performance to another.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed debates over workfare in New York City in the 1990s to shed light on three related questions with respect to policy debates in general: how to understand the creation of meaning in policy debates, how actors and their claims may have in shaping the boundaries and terms of these debates, and how is this power related to the question of meaning.

TL;DR: The American funeral industry has become increasingly corporatized and consumer-centric and, as a result, the production-side mechanisms involved in creating, marketing, and distributing its goods have changed as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The authors used the World Bank's lending classifications to examine the relationship between rules and classification and to argue that the organizational context of classification is central to assessing the cognitive impact of classification.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the relationship between grammar and practice can be expressed along three analytical dimensions: semiotic, power, and relational, and conclude with a multidimensional model of communicative action, and assert that these tensions arise from uncritically conflating the empirical with the analytical.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated to what extent various members of the contemporary theatre world in Flanders (Belgium) differ in their aesthetic dispositions and their familiarity with and preference for a wide range of playwrights, providing insight into the literary reality of these dramatists.