Cultural Sociology

Papers
(The median citation count of Cultural Sociology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘You Don’t go to These Kinds of Concerts for Fun’: The Fluid and Emergent Performance of Taste in Contemporary Art Music29
Deciphering the Iconic: An Inquiry into how Architecture Impacts the Inclusiveness of Cultural Institutions28
Musicians’ Professional Resilience as a Multi-layered Resource25
Cultural Intermediation and Civil Society: Towards a Hermeneutically Strong Conception17
Book Review: Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism16
Beyond the Clickbait: Analysing the Masculinist Ideology in Andrew Tate’s Online Written Discourses15
Book Review: Bauman’s Legacy: A Critical Analysis on the Crisis of Modernity BordoniCarloBauman’s Legacy: A Critical Analysis on the Crisis of ModernityA15
Adolescents’ Music Tastes in the Streaming Era: The Case of Belgium14
Politically Incorrect Immigrants and the (Un)Funny Business of Becoming Civilized: Integration with a Smirk13
Book Review: The Sociology of Literature13
Reflections on The Culture Trap : On Doing Ethnographic Cultural Sociology Derron Wallace, The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectation and Unequal Schooling for11
The Killing of Charlie Kirk: A Cultural Sociological Analysis11
Friendship, Intimacy, and the Contradictions of Therapy Culture11
Accounting For the Limited Success of #MeToo in the Popular Music and Stand-Up Comedy Industries11
Making Sense of Change: Emotive-Cognitive Reframing of Young People in Post-crisis Spain11
The Material Dimension of Chinese Hip-Hop: From Tangible Forms to Online Consumption11
Threading Influence: Fashion as a Medium for Chinese Soft Power10
Derron Wallace, The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth9
Elite Reproduction and Power in the Neoliberal Era: The Image-Making of King Carl XVI Gustaf as ‘Sweden’s Leader’9
Roots of Distrust: Opposition to Science-Based Policy-Making during the Xylella Emergency in Salento9
Reactionary Exiles. How Conspiracy Theorists Deal with Socio-Technological Exclusion9
Persecution Capital: Legitimacy, Trauma, and Political Authority8
Assembling Hyperpop: Genre Formation on Wikipedia7
‘Eastern Europeanism’: A Rethinking of ‘Race and Racism’ by and Against White People from Central and Eastern Europe7
When Kinship Becomes Tainted: Symbolic Classification in Chinese Kinship Estrangement7
Book Review: The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet7
Book Review: Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers6
Narratives of Volunteering and Social Change in Wartime Ukraine6
Constructing a Social Reality of Luck in the Art World6
Exploring Digital/Non-digital Entanglements Through Everyday Practice Connections in Young People’s Gaming6
Book Review: Rancière’s Counter-Sociology: Politics, History, Education LaneJ.F.Rancière’s Counter-Sociology: Politics, History, EducationPalgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, 2024, (ISBN hbk: 978-3-6
(Plat)formatted Creativity: Creating Music in the Age of Streaming5
‘Oh you’re really good for a girl’: Sexism, Stereotypes and Subcultural Capital in Board Gaming4
‘I am a Punk, I Don’t Give a Damn!’ Chez Narcisse: A Rural Place of Resistance4
Photographer-Artist or Artist-Photographer? The Permanence of Contestations in the Field of Art Photography in Italy4
Thank You to Referees4
Rampant Abstraction as a Strategy of Singularization: Genre on Spotify4
Communicative Legitimacy: The Supreme Court’s Hidden Cultural Binaries in the US Civil Sphere4
Shifting Artistic Identity on Canvas: From ‘Painter-Worker’ to ‘Painter-Artist’ in a Commercial Painting Community4
Institutional Policy and Cultural Repertoires of Compliance During Covid-19 in Tel Aviv and New Orleans’ Cultural and Creative Industries3
Book Review: Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success LarsonChristineLove in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules3
Derron Wallace, The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth3
Repertoires of Comparison: How Common Comparisons Shape Social and Political Life3
Book Review: The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice3
Custodians and Institutionalists: The Role of the Palestinian Cultural Elite in Israel3
The Trouble with Diversity: The Cultural Sector and Ethnic Inequality3
Reading Agency in the Therapeutic Market: Sociological Insights into Russian Self-Help Literatures and Practices3
‘Types’ of Popular Musicians: From Musical to Professional Styles: Some Epistemological Reflections Based on the Case of French-Speaking Swiss Musicians2
‘I Need the White Pill!’ – A Creative Exploration of How Minority Flemish Youth Employ Ethnic Humour for Identity Construction2
Intellectual Interventions in Haifa Zangana’s Packaged Lives: Ten Stories and a Novella2
Rethinking Materiality of Music: The Transformative Practices of Music Streaming2
Book Review: Beyond the Revival: The Cassette Tape as Cultural Form and Meaning System MastersMHigh Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette TapeUniversity of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, NC,2
Book Review: Transnational Musicians. Precariousness, Ethnicity and Gender in the Creative Industry2
How do Conservative and Islamic Art Audiences Define Good Taste? Cultural Classifications at the Crossroads of Morality, Religion, and Politics in Turkey2
Explaining the Elusion of Victim Hierarchies in Sierra Leone2
Private View? The Organisational Performance of ‘Privateness’ and ‘Publicness’ at an Art Gallery2
‘Class is Always a Matter of Morals’: Bourdieu and Dewey on Social Class, Morality, and Habit(us)2
Book Review: Ghosting: On Disappearance PettmanDominicGhosting: On DisappearancePolity Press, Cambridge, 2025. £12.99 pbk, (ISBN 9781509569953), 144 pp.2
The ‘Not Quite’ as a Form of Relationality2
Why Live Music Matters: Implications from Streaming Music Festivals in the Chinese Indie Music Scene2
Resonant Reviews: Experiencing Accurate Readings and Indicators of Literary Accomplishment Among Reviewed Novelists2
Recognition Gaps and COVID Inequality: The Case of Immigrants in Sweden2
Performing Identity or Performing Relationships? Rethinking Performance Theory in Social Media Studies2
Bourdieusian Boundary-Making, Social Networks, and Capital Conversion: Inequality among International Degree Holders in Hong Kong2
The Civil Sphere and Social Class2
From Public Culture to Personal Worth: A Sociological Inquiry into the Cultural Roots of Suicide2
Tastes and Complex Tastes2
Book Review: A Body of One’s Own: A Trans History of Argentina SimonettoPatricioA Body of One’s Own: A Trans History of ArgentinaUniversity of Texas Press, Austin, TX, 2024, $50 (hbk) (ISBN: 978-1-4772
Numbers as Fact-Icons: The Public Power of ‘6402’ in Post-War Colombia2
When, How, and in Relation to Whom is ‘Race’ at Play in Invocations of ‘Eastern Europe’?2
Fighting for the Future: From Societalisation to Politicisation of Chile’s Dominga Mining Project1
Bourdieu Works for the Bank: Cultural Sociology in an Age of Digitalisation and Financialisation1
Reading Heteropessimism: Painful Attachments in Contemporary Literary Fiction1
Keeping It Small: Scale and Cultural Resistance in Independent Publishing1
Iconic Extensions and Memetic Audiences: The MAGA Hat as a Site of Conflict in the US Public Sphere1
Fashion as ‘Force for Change’? How Ideologization Reshapes the Work of Intermediaries in the Legitimation of Culture1
White But Not Quite: Central Europe’s Illiberal Revolt: A Rejoinder1
Symbolic Boundaries in Times of Superdiversity: ‘People Like Me’ and their Materialisation in Spatial Boundaries in Brussels’ Neighbourhoods Lower-Molenbeek and Matonge1
Music Worlds and Event Networks: An Exposition1
Book Review: Scandal in Japan: Transgression, Performance and Ritual PrusaIgorScandal in Japan: Transgression, Performance and RitualRoutledge: Abingdon, 2024, £135 hbk (ISBN: 9781032472485), 119 pp.1
Educational Mobility and Cultural Omnivorousness in Germany1
“What’s Authentic to Me, Doesn’t Mean It’s Authentic to You”: Relational Authenticity Work in the American Culinary Field1
Interpretations of Interruptions in Leisure Reading: A Study of Finnish Readers1
Book Review: The Social Organization of Arts. A Theoretical Compendium KirchbergVolkerZembylasTasosThe Social Organization of Arts. A Theoretical Compendiummdw Press: Vienna (open access), 2024, £41.91
Book Review: Group Life: An Invitation to Local Sociology1
Cultures of Cultural Globalization: How National Repertoires and Political Ideologies Affect Literary and Artistic Circulation1
Book Review: Perspectives on Music after Bourdieu: Contributions from Music Education and Sociology of Music Diaz-BoneRainerLehmann-WermserAndreas (eds) Perspectives on Music after Bourdieu: Contribut1
Desire and Modesty in Post-Soviet Expectation for the Western Standard of Life: Contrasting and Empowering Narratives of Latvian Emigrants and Latvians who Stayed at Home1
Where is the Black Town in American National Memory? The Case of Princeville, North Carolina1
Beginning at the Beginning: Towards a Trans-actional Music Sociology1
On The Making of White American Identity: Ron Eyerman and Eric Taylor Woods in Conversation0
Thank you to Referees0
Staged Creativity and Co-creation of Meanings: The Commodification of Spaces for Cosplay in Japanese Cosplay Culture0
Book Review: Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy0
How Professionals Cooperate through Conflicts: Networks and Social Face in the Workplace0
Civil Sphere Theory Meets Cultural Sociology: Close Encounters of the Symbolic Kind0
Derron Wallace, The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth0
Book Review: Race, Taste, Class and Cars0
Cultural Sociology in Mexico: Meaning-Making as Hybridization, Power, and Cultural Structure0
Sociogenetic Fields and the Fiction of Unity: Classed Taste and Regional Differentiation in Italian Food Consumption0
From the Streets to the Spotlight: Tactical Authenticity in Contemporary Chinese Rap0
Book Review: Artists, Cosmopolitanism, and the Civic Imagination: Artists as Political Agents RoviscoMArtists, Cosmopolitanism, and the Civic Imagination: Artists as Political AgentsRoutledge, London 0
Cultural Translations of Social Movements: A Field-Translation Interpretation of the Adoption Pattern of the Temperance Movement in the Danish Field of Moral Reform0
Navigating the Beauty Bind: Young People’s Intersectional Perspectives on Appearance, Privilege and Inequality0
Cultural Sociology in Chile: The Explanatory Power of Subjectivity0
Book Review: The Trouble with Jokes: Humour and Offensiveness in Contemporary Culture and Politics ButlerNickThe Trouble with Jokes: Humour and Offensive0
Book Review: Revolution of Things: The Islamism and Post-Islamism of Objects in Tehran0
Situating the Atrium: A Cultural Political Economy0
What’s Up with Cultural Sociology? From Bourdieu and the Mainstream to ‘Productive Weirdness’0
Introducing Affective Practices: Disgust in Finnish Consumers’ Everyday Meat Consumption0
Eugenics and the Racialisation of ‘White Eastern Europeans’0
Book Review: The Global Rules of Art: The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy0
Self-Brand or Be Branded Out: The Convergence of Mainstream and Independent Music Talent Scouting Under Platform Capitalism0
Cultural Practices and Socio-Digital Inequalities in Europe: Towards a Unified Research Framework in Cultural Participation Studies0
Cooking and Crafting in a Digital Economy: The Effects of Online Commodification on Leisure Activities0
Book Review: The Cultural Politics of COVID-190
The Artification of the Nude: A Symbolic Revolution in the Art Field of Republican China (1912–1937)0
Book Review: The Love of Books: Attachment to a Changing Cultural Object OlaveMaría Angélica ThumalaThe Love of Books: Attachment to a Changing Cultural ObjectManchester University Press, Manchester, 0
From Ethnic to High-End Cuisine: Recategorization and Status Change Among Restaurants in Global Cities0
Deep Transformations: Lived Experiences and Emotions in Social Change Narratives0
Music, Resilience and ‘Soundscaping’: Some Reflections on the War in Ukraine0
The Activist Character: Power and Empowerment in Bestselling Activist Memoirs in the United States0
Performative Feelings for Others: The Civil Repair of Organised Competitive Sports0
Beyond Competitiveness? Academic Gift Culture and Its Discontents0
Neoliberal Feminism and Political Leadership: The Representation of Giorgia Meloni and Elly Schlein in Popular Culture0
Purification or Pollution? The Debate over ‘Workplace Spirituality’0
Licensed to Rock (or so they say). How Popular Music Programmes at Higher Music Education Institutions Create Professional Musicians0
Secret objects in the home: Potency, (in)visibility and everyday relationships0
Culture of Migration and Symbolic Violence: The Mobilities of Black and Racialised Italians in the UK0
‘Music is the Healing Force of the Universe’; Exploring Aesthetic Attachments and Transformative Listening Practices among Spiritual Jazz Listeners0
Unappreciated Labour: Emma Casey and Ann Oakley in Conversation April 20250
Book Review: Food & Society: Principles and Paradoxes (3rd Edn)0
The Grant Proposal as a Genre. A Multiple Correspondence Analysis of Visual Artists and their Legitimations for Government Grants in Flanders, 1965–20150
Making Memory: Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland0
Social Divisions in Accounts of Discrimination: Experiences among Performing Artists0
Book Review: The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, Futurity HawthorneCamillaLewisJovan Scott (eds) The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, FuturityDuke University Press, Durham, NC and London, 20
Unmasking the Racial Politics of Culture: A Response to Reviews of The Culture Trap and Further Comments0
Book Review: Handcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy of Craft Beer WilsonEli Revelle YanoHandcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy of Cra0
‘Our (Civil) Way of Life’: The Folkloric Civil Sphere0
The Shape of Bigfoot: Transmuting Absences into Credible Knowledge Claims0
Jewish Sopranos in Germany: A Study of Jewish–Muslim Cooperation in the Post-Migrant Television Series The Zweiflers0
Emotions in a Time of Radical Change: Untangling Narratives of Pride and Achievements in Post-1989/1991 Lithuania and East Germany0
Book Review: Sight Readings Photographers and American Jazz, 1900–19600
Sad and Absurd Representations of War in Gameplay and Interviews0
Struggles for Horizontal Identification: Muslims, Jews, and the Civil Sphere in Germany0
Accomplishing Reality Media: The Affective Lure of Online Crime Discussions0
Technology as (Dis-)Enchantment. AlphaGo and the Meaning-Making of Artificial Intelligence0
Book Review: Sociology in a New Key: Essays in Social Theory and Aesthetics StaubmannHelmutSociology in a New Key: Essays in Social Theory and AestheticsSpringer, Cham, Switzerland, 20220
Who is on Show? Globalization of Private Contemporary Art Museums in China0
From the ‘Musical Agora’ to an ‘Extreme Sport’: Negotiating Live Music’s Values in a Context of Urban Informality, Corruption and Violence in Mexico City0
Performative Polarization: The Interactional and Cultural Drivers of Political Antagonism0
Investigating Collective Emotional Structures: Theoretical and Analytical Implications of the ‘Deep Story’ Concept0
Book Review The Sound of Difference: Kristina Kolbe, Lisa Gaupp and Christina Scharff in Conversation KolbeKristinaThe Sound of Difference: Race, Class and the Politics of ‘Diversity’ in Classical Mus0
Gourmet Burgers and Classifications of Highbrow–Lowbrow Hybrids: Middle-Class Consumers’ Perspectives on McDonald’s Burgers Designed by Michelin Chefs0
Figurations of Mentorship for Cultural Work0
Holocaust Memory as Cultural Code: The UK National Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre as Case Study0
Derron Wallace, The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth0
From Ways of Life to Cultural Stratification and Culturally Oriented Political Sociology: Half a Century of Cultural Sociology in Finland0
Everything is in My Hands. Creative Subjectivities in Privileged Art School Students0
Framing New Art: Performances by the Tribe of Avant-Garde0
You Can’t Take it to Heart: How Czech Residents from MENA and Sub-Saharan Africa Make Sense of Ethnoracial Othering0
Interstitial Institutions0
Central European Populists and the Racialization of Various Others0
Civil Sphere Values and Moral Responsibility in Cultural Production: The Curation of Music Festivals Today0
Book Review: Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being HageGhassanPierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of BeingDuke University Press, Durham, NC, 2025, $103.95 hbk (ISBN: 978-1-4780-2926-7. eISBN: 90
Book Review: Scripting Defiance: Four Sociological Vignettes0
Book Review: Passionate Work: Choreographing a Dance Career HorowitzRuthPassionate Work: Choreographing a Dance CareerStanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2024, from $32 (ISBN: 9781503639614), 3240
In Sync: Distinguishing Taste through the ‘What’ and the ‘How’ of Live Music Consumption0
Presidential versus Civil Power: Public Opinion, Second-Wave Feminism, and Party Politics in the USA0
Unisex Fashion as a Social Practice: A Comparative Study Between Young Heterosexual Consumers in the United States and China0
Sound Health: Finding Resonance Through Using Streaming Services for Health, Exercise and Wellness0
‘Dual Ambivalence of Counterpublics’: Exploring Small-town Swots in Contemporary China0
Regional Spotlight Italian Sociology of Culture: A Method to the Madness0
Transcending Collectivist Culture: An Examination of Male Chinese Athletes’ Dual Identities in Their Everyday Lives0
Dystopian Games: Diagnosing Modernity as the Scene of Tests, Trials and Transformations0
Architecture as a Mode of Existence. The Hamburg Case of Rebuilding the Bornplatz Synagogue0
‘If God is a DJ’: Heritage Rave, the Ageing Raver and the Bodywork of the DJ0
Ascetic Athleticism and the Spirit of Fair Play: A Weberian Interpretation of Football’s Beginning Rationalization in Victorian Britain0
Nothing Changed, Nothing Gained? Emotional Responses towards European Integration in the Memoirs of Polish Farmers0
Lyrics of Conflict: How Israeli Soldiers’ Songs Reframe the Palestinian Enemy0
From Author to Network: The Coming of Age of Civil Sphere Theory0
Encountering the Civil Sphere Through Cinema: The Cinematic Gap as a Pathway to Civil Evaluation and Repair0
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