Cultural objects, material culture, and materiality

TE McDonnell - Annual Review of Sociology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The study of cultural objects and their materiality has moved to the center of cultural
sociology. This review synthesizes the work of this third wave of cultural sociology …

The distancing-embracing model of the enjoyment of negative emotions in art reception

W Menninghaus, V Wagner, J Hanich… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Why are negative emotions so central in art reception far beyond tragedy? Revisiting
classical aesthetics in the light of recent psychological research, we present a novel model …

Patchwork leviathan: How pockets of bureaucratic governance flourish within institutionally diverse developing states

EM McDonnell - American Sociological Review, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Within seemingly weak states, exceptionally effective subunits lie hidden. These high-
performing niches exhibit organizational characteristics distinct from poor-performing peer …

Inside the critics' circle: Book reviewing in uncertain times

PK Chong - 2020 - academic.oup.com
examination is analytically anchored “in the types of uncertainties that critics confront in the
course of writing book reviews, how critics respond to these uncertainties, and how this …

How great and how good?: Third places, neighbor interaction, and cohesion in the neighborhood context

SA Williams, JR Hipp - Social science research, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Though Ray Oldenburg's (1989) notion of “third places”, or places conducive to
sociality outside of the realms of home and work, has received both scholarly and popular …

Innovation and creativity in creative industries

H Wohl - Sociology Compass, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Creativity is the intentional combination of symbols, ideas, or objects in a way that is
unexpected for a given audience. While creativity is a process, innovation is the outcome of …

Group pleasures: Collaborative commitments, shared narrative, and the sociology of fun

GA Fine, U Corte - Sociological Theory, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
As a consequence of their size and fragility, small groups depend on cohesion. Central to
group continuation are occasions of collective hedonic satisfaction that encourage …

When non-CSR-themed social media influencers endorse corporate CSR initiatives: Effects of publics' perceived influencer characteristics and leadership

YRR Chen, CJF Hung-Baesecke, Y Cheng - Public Relations Review, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the most recent decade, non-CSR-themed social media influencers (SMIs) have
played an important role in driving positive outcomes of corporate social responsibility …

Phenomenology‐based ethnography for management studies and organizational analysis

D Vom Lehn - British Journal of Management, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This paper introduces phenomenology‐based ethnography as a novel ethnographic
approach for research in management studies and organizational analysis and describes …

New forms of distinction: How contemporary cultural elites understand 'good'taste

D O'Brien, L Ianni - The Sociological Review, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Taste is a subject of longstanding academic interest. The question of how cultural interests
and preferences are socially stratified is at the heart of the sociology of culture. This article …