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Sara Malou Strandvad - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Anaphoric Trajectories of Creative Processes
Advances in Media Entertainment and the Arts, 2017Co-Authors: Sara Malou StrandvadAbstract:This chapter critically questions the strategy of applying the Actor-Network Theory to media studies. Arguing that an application of a fixed ANT-approach fundamentally opposes the ambition of Actor-Network Theory, this chapter outlines a different way of drawing inspiration from ANT. Based in the writings of the French Cultural Sociologist Antoine Hennion, who has been a pioneer in developing a Cultural sociology inspired by ANT, and the recent writings of Bruno Latour addressing Cultural production, the chapter suggests investigating the “anaphoric trajectories” of creative development processes. To illustrate this approach, the chapter analyzes the case of a failed film project and considers how the content of creative production processes may be incorporated into Cultural production studies.
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Anaphoric Trajectories of Creative Processes: The Case of a Failed Film Project
2017Co-Authors: Sara Malou StrandvadAbstract:This chapter critically questions the strategy of applying the Actor-Network Theory to media studies. Arguing that an application of a fixed ANT-approach fundamentally opposes the ambition of Actor-Network Theory, this chapter outlines a different way of drawing inspiration from ANT. Based in the writings of the French Cultural Sociologist Antoine Hennion, who has been a pioneer in developing a Cultural sociology inspired by ANT, and the recent writings of Bruno Latour addressing Cultural production, the chapter suggests investigating the “anaphoric trajectories” of creative development processes. To illustrate this approach, the chapter analyzes the case of a failed film project and considers how the content of creative production processes may be incorporated into Cultural production studies.
Voyer Andrea - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Hope and a horizon of solidarity – An interview with Jeffrey C. Alexander : Interviewed by Anna Lund and Andrea Voyer
'Sociologisk Forskning Swedish Sociological Association', 2020Co-Authors: Lund Anna, Voyer AndreaAbstract:In this interview, Jeffrey C. Alexander describes the development of Cultural sociology, the importance of collaborative work, and the inspiration he takes from his political action, and from the art and humanities. The interview focuses primarily on civil sphere theory (CST), and Alexander’s goal in moving towards Durkheimian and away from Parsonian conceptions of solidarity. Alexander addresses common misunderstandings and critiques of CST, describes the current project of the internationalization of CST, and applies the theory to the present crisis of a global pandemic and the social movement of Black Lives Matter. Finally, Alexander reflects upon life in the academic world and the importance of not only analyzing meaning as a Cultural Sociologist but also working with meaningful projects in order to not be alienated. Alexander was invited keynote speaker at the Sociologidagarna in March in Stockholm 2020, but due to the Corona pandemic the conference was cancelled. This interview took place through Zoom in three different locations (Stockholm, New Haven, and Coventry, Connecticut) on 22 June 2020.Sociologisk Forsknings digitala arkiv
Anna Lund - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Hope and a horizon of solidarity - An interview with Jeffrey C. Alexander Interviewed by Anna Lund and Andrea Voyer
Sociologisk Forskning, 2020Co-Authors: Anna LundAbstract:In this interview, Jeffrey C Alexander describes the development of Cultural sociology, the importance of collaborative work, and the inspiration he takes from his political action, and from the art and humanities The interview focuses primarily on civil sphere theory (CST), and Alexander's goal in moving towards Durkheimian and away from Parsonian conceptions of solidarity Alexander addresses common misunderstandings and critiques of CST, describes the current project of the internationalization of CST, and applies the theory to the present crisis of a global pandemic and the social movement of Black Lives Matter Finally, Alexander reflects upon life in the academic world and the importance of not only analyzing meaning as a Cultural Sociologist but also working with meaningful projects in order to not be alienated Alexander was invited keynote speaker at the Sociologidagarna in March in Stockholm 2020, but due to the Corona pandemic the conference was cancelled This interview took place through Zoom in three different locations (Stockholm, New Haven, and Coventry, Connecticut) on 22 June 2020
Alex Skinner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Legacy of Pierre Bourdieu: Between Structuralism and Theory of Practice: The Cultural Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu
The Legacy of Pierre Bourdieu, 1Co-Authors: Hans Joas, Wolfgang Knöbl, Alex SkinnerAbstract:Bourdieu's work was deeply moulded by the national intellectual milieu in which it developed, that of France in the late 1940s and 1950s, a milieu characterised by disputes between phenomenologists and structuralists. But it is not this national and Cultural dimension that distinguishes Bourdieu's writings from those of other ‘grand theorists’. Habermas and Giddens, for example, owed as much to the academic or political context of their home countries. What set Bourdieu's approach apart from that of his German and British ‘rivals’ was a significantly stronger linkage of theoretical and empirical knowledge. Bourdieu was first and foremost an empirical Sociologist, that is, a Sociologist who developed and constantly refined his theoretical concepts on the basis of his empirical work – with all the advantages and disadvantages that theoretical production of this kind entails. We shall have more to say about this later. Bourdieu is thus to be understood primarily not as a theorist but as a Cultural Sociologist who systematically stimulated the theoretical debate through his empirical work. Pierre Bourdieu was born in 1930 and is therefore of the same generation as Habermas and Luhmann. The fact that Bourdieu came from a modest background and grew up in the depths of provincial France is extremely important to understanding his work. Bourdieu himself repeatedly emphasised the importance of his origins: ‘I spent most of my youth in a tiny and remote village of Southwestern France […].
William H. Sewell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Response: Scientific Progress in a Nontheoretical Discipline: History and Constructive Realism
Sociological Methodology, 2004Co-Authors: William H. SewellAbstract:I agree with essentially all of Philip Gorski's arguments. His critiques of Hempel, Burawoy, Lieberson, and Skocpol seem to me entirely correct. I see his alternative "constructive realist" approach as providing a cogent philosophical underwriting of what the best historical and Cultural Sociologists have in fact been doing in practice for years. Moreover, Gorski argues that constructive realism describes what quantitative Sociologists have been doing in practice as well. The philosophy of science Gorski espouses provides a big tent. Although formulated from the standpoint of a historical and Cultural Sociologist, it does not attempt to cast quantitative research into the outer darkness by claiming that only explicitly "interpretivist" methods and theories are worthwhile-although it does, properly in my opinion, indicate that self-consciously positivist researchers in fact engage in a lot more interpretative work than they would like to believe. I am pleased to have at hand such a clear, concise, convincing, astute, and sensible philosophical statement, which I expect to come in handy in many future debates. One of the most attractive features of Gorski's constructive
