What is sociological about music?

WG Roy, TJ Dowd - Annual Review of Sociology, 2010 - annualreviews.org
The sociology of music has become a vibrant field of study in recent decades. While its
proponents are well aware of this field's contributions and relevance, we focus here on …

Is America Fragmenting?

CS Fischer, G Mattson - Annual Review of Sociology, 2009 - annualreviews.org
The view that America is fragmenting is popular among both pundits and academics and
may well be endemic to American culture. We review claims that between 1970 and 2005 …

The ethnic restaurateur

K Ray - The Ethnic Restaurateur, 2016 - torrossa.com
Ihad never cooked a meal when I came to the United States in 1988 as a young adult. I had
made omelets, taught by a Boy Scouts' Camp Counselor in Jamshedpur. I had brewed tea a …

Mapping shared understandings using relational class analysis: The case of the cultural omnivore reexamined

A Goldberg - American journal of sociology, 2011 - journals.uchicago.edu
What do sociologists mean when they describe culture as founded on “shared
understandings”? Sharing an understanding does not necessarily imply having the same …

Disentangling 'cultural capital': The consequences of cultural and economic resources for taste and participation

M Yaish, T Katz-Gerro - European Sociological Review, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Most studies of the determinants of cultural capital have used taste or participation as
interchangeable indicators of embodied cultural capital. In this article, we propose to treat …

Gender and highbrow cultural participation in the United States

A Christin - Poetics, 2012 - Elsevier
Empirical analyses of cultural choice consistently report that gender is an essential
determinant of cultural participation. In particular, women are significantly more likely than …

Digitale Medien, Partizipation und Ungleichheit

S Rudolph - Eine Studie zum sozialen Gebrauch des Internets …, 2019 - Springer
Die hier von Steffen Rudolph vorgelegte soziologische Untersuchung beschäftigt sich mit
der Bedeutung sozioökonomischer und-demografischer Ungleichheiten für die …

Data scientists' identity work: Omnivorous symbolic boundaries in skills acquisition

N Avnoon - Work, Employment and Society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Drawing on theories from the sociology of work and the sociology of culture, this article
argues that members of nascent technical occupations construct their professional identity …

The paradox of breadth: The tension between experience and legitimacy in the transition to entrepreneurship

A Kacperczyk, P Younkin - Administrative Science Quarterly, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
In a study of artists who launched independent record labels in the music industry from 1990
to 2013, we focus on explaining the paradox generated when prospective entrepreneurs …

The legitimacy of book critics in the age of the Internet and omnivorousness: Expert critics, Internet critics and peer critics in Flanders and the Netherlands

M Verboord - European Sociological Review, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The aim of this article is to increase the understanding of how cultural consumers—in this
era of increasing Internet usage and more omnivorous cultural taste patterns—use and rate …