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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Right to Meaning: A Syrian Case Study29
‘You Don’t go to These Kinds of Concerts for Fun’: The Fluid and Emergent Performance of Taste in Contemporary Art Music19
Dating Apps: The Uncertainty of Marketised Love16
Deciphering the Iconic: An Inquiry into how Architecture Impacts the Inclusiveness of Cultural Institutions13
Introduction to the Book Review Symposium10
Cultural Intermediation and Civil Society: Towards a Hermeneutically Strong Conception10
Book Review: Who Owns the Wind? Climate Crisis and the Hope of Renewable Energy9
Book Review: Lure of the Social: Encounters with Contemporary Artists9
Book Review: Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism9
Beyond the Clickbait: Analysing the Masculinist Ideology in Andrew Tate’s Online Written Discourses8
Evaluating Self-Presentation: Gatekeeping Recognition Work in Hiring8
The Body of a Performer as a Form of Capital: Age, Gender and Aesthetics in Theatre Work7
Exemplary Directors, European Imports, and the Changing Valuation of Films in Hollywood, 1961–19807
Book Review: The Sociology of Literature7
Editorial Statement: Visions for Cultural Sociology in Uncertain Times7
Reflections on The Culture Trap: On Doing Ethnographic Cultural Sociology Derron Wallace, The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectation and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth6
Making Sense of Change: Emotive-Cognitive Reframing of Young People in Post-crisis Spain6
Reactionary Exiles. How Conspiracy Theorists Deal with Socio-Technological Exclusion6
The Racialised ‘Second Existence’ of Class: Class Identification and (De-/Re-)construction across the British South Asian Middle Classes6
Accounting For the Limited Success of #MeToo in the Popular Music and Stand-Up Comedy Industries6
Adolescents’ Music Tastes in the Streaming Era: The Case of Belgium6
Friendship, Intimacy, and the Contradictions of Therapy Culture6
Elite Reproduction and Power in the Neoliberal Era: The Image-Making of King Carl XVI Gustaf as ‘Sweden’s Leader’6
Derron Wallace, The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth5
Assembling Hyperpop: Genre Formation on Wikipedia5
The Material Dimension of Chinese Hip-Hop: From Tangible Forms to Online Consumption5
Book Review: The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet5
Producing (Musical) Difference: Power, Practices and Inequalities in Diversity Initiatives in Germany’s Classical Music Sector5
Voicing Omnivorousness, Assembling the Omnivorous Voice: The American Musical Explored5
Rampant Abstraction as a Strategy of Singularization: Genre on Spotify4
(Plat)formatted Creativity: Creating Music in the Age of Streaming4
Exploring Digital/Non-digital Entanglements Through Everyday Practice Connections in Young People’s Gaming4
Book Review: Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers4
‘Eastern Europeanism’: A Rethinking of ‘Race and Racism’ by and Against White People from Central and Eastern Europe4
Book Review: Rancière’s Counter-Sociology: Politics, History, Education LaneJ.F.Rancière’s Counter-Sociology: Politics, History, EducationPalgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switz4
The Geo-Ecological Turn in Sociology and its Implications for the Sociology of the Arts4
Narratives of Volunteering and Social Change in Wartime Ukraine4
Cultural Sociology and the Politics of Canonization: An Anglo-Canadian Perspective4
The Trouble with Diversity: The Cultural Sector and Ethnic Inequality3
Shifting Artistic Identity on Canvas: From ‘Painter-Worker’ to ‘Painter-Artist’ in a Commercial Painting Community3
The Recurrence of the King’s Second Body?3
‘Oh you’re really good for a girl’: Sexism, Stereotypes and Subcultural Capital in Board Gaming3
‘I am a Punk, I Don’t Give a Damn!’ Chez Narcisse: A Rural Place of Resistance3
Repertoires of Comparison: How Common Comparisons Shape Social and Political Life3
Thank You to Referees3
Book Review: Matters of Revolution: Urban Spaces and Symbolic Politics in Berlin and Warsaw After 1989 by Dominik Bartmanski2
Book Review: The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice2
Why Live Music Matters: Implications from Streaming Music Festivals in the Chinese Indie Music Scene2
‘Supertanker is a Hero, the Government a Villain’: Politicization of Chile’s 2017 Forest Fires in the Media2
Moral Entrepreneurialism for the Hamburger: Strategies for Marketing a Contested Fast Food2
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, 22
Derron Wallace, The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth2
Numbers as Fact-Icons: The Public Power of ‘6402’ in Post-War Colombia2
Why Fans of the Evil Genius Remain Fans: The Case of Richard Wagner and the Bayreuth Festival2
Resonant Reviews: Experiencing Accurate Readings and Indicators of Literary Accomplishment Among Reviewed Novelists2
Bourdieusian Boundary-Making, Social Networks, and Capital Conversion: Inequality among International Degree Holders in Hong Kong1
‘If You Move in the Same Circles as the Royals, then You’ll Get Stories About Them’: Royal Correspondents, Cultural Intermediaries and Class1
Recognition Gaps and COVID Inequality: The Case of Immigrants in Sweden1
The ‘Not Quite’ as a Form of Relationality1
Rethinking Materiality of Music: The Transformative Practices of Music Streaming1
‘I Need the White Pill!’ – A Creative Exploration of How Minority Flemish Youth Employ Ethnic Humour for Identity Construction1
Cultures of Cultural Globalization: How National Repertoires and Political Ideologies Affect Literary and Artistic Circulation1
Book Review: Group Life: An Invitation to Local Sociology1
‘Types’ of Popular Musicians: From Musical to Professional Styles: Some Epistemological Reflections Based on the Case of French-Speaking Swiss Musicians1
Beginning at the Beginning: Towards a Trans-actional Music Sociology1
Tastes and Complex Tastes1
‘Class is Always a Matter of Morals’: Bourdieu and Dewey on Social Class, Morality, and Habit(us)1
Book Review: Transnational Musicians. Precariousness, Ethnicity and Gender in the Creative Industry1
The Civil Sphere and Social Class1
When, How, and in Relation to Whom is ‘Race’ at Play in Invocations of ‘Eastern Europe’?1
‘Everyone’s Annoyed’: Leveraging Uncertainty in the Smell of Others1
Critical Appraisal and Masculine Authority: The Boys Clubs’ Derogatory Method of Reading Canadian Feminist Speculative Fiction1
Private View? The Organisational Performance of ‘Privateness’ and ‘Publicness’ at an Art Gallery1
From Public Culture to Personal Worth: A Sociological Inquiry into the Cultural Roots of Suicide1
Protesting Populist Knowledge Practices: Collective Effervescence at the March for Science London1
How do Conservative and Islamic Art Audiences Define Good Taste? Cultural Classifications at the Crossroads of Morality, Religion, and Politics in Turkey1
Performing Identity or Performing Relationships? Rethinking Performance Theory in Social Media Studies1
Book Review: The Social Organization of Arts. A Theoretical Compendium KirchbergVolkerZembylasTasosThe Social Organization of Arts. A Theoretical Compendiummdw Press: Vi1
Book Review: Running, Identity and Meaning. The Pursuit of Distinction Through Sport1
White But Not Quite: Central Europe’s Illiberal Revolt: A Rejoinder1
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 Home0
Banal Cosmopolitanism? Values and Cultural Repertoires of Youth in Adriatic Croatia0
Iconic Extensions and Memetic Audiences: The MAGA Hat as a Site of Conflict in the US Public Sphere0
Introducing Affective Practices: Disgust in Finnish Consumers’ Everyday Meat Consumption0
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
Nothing Changed, Nothing Gained? Emotional Responses towards European Integration in the Memoirs of Polish Farmers0
Central European Populists and the Racialization of Various Others0
Struggles for Horizontal Identification: Muslims, Jews, and the Civil Sphere in Germany0
From Ethnic to High-End Cuisine: Recategorization and Status Change Among Restaurants in Global Cities0
Scenography and the Production of Artworks in Contemporary Art0
Book Review: Sight Readings Photographers and American Jazz, 1900–19600
Staged Creativity and Co-creation of Meanings: The Commodification of Spaces for Cosplay in Japanese Cosplay Culture0
Cultural Practices and Socio-Digital Inequalities in Europe: Towards a Unified Research Framework in Cultural Participation Studies0
Deep Transformations: Lived Experiences and Emotions in Social Change Narratives0
Sad and Absurd Representations of War in Gameplay and Interviews0
Book Review: Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy0
Derron Wallace, The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth0
The Grant Proposal as a Genre. A Multiple Correspondence Analysis of Visual Artists and their Legitimations for Government Grants in Flanders, 1965–20150
Purification or Pollution? The Debate over ‘Workplace Spirituality’0
Power and the People0
Modernism and Record Covers: Raising the Status of Jazz in Sweden0
Situating the Atrium: A Cultural Political Economy0
The Shape of Bigfoot: Transmuting Absences into Credible Knowledge Claims0
Order, Delegation, and Exclusion in the Negative Space of Political Modernity: A Reply to My Critics0
Making Memory: Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland0
Presidential versus Civil Power: Public Opinion, Second-Wave Feminism, and Party Politics in the USA0
‘Our (Civil) Way of Life’: The Folkloric Civil Sphere0
Unmasking the Racial Politics of Culture: A Response to Reviews of The Culture Trap and Further Comments0
Unisex Fashion as a Social Practice: A Comparative Study Between Young Heterosexual Consumers in the United States and China0
Eugenics and the Racialisation of ‘White Eastern Europeans’0
Cultural Spaces as Political Spaces: The Musical Field of the German Democratic Republic0
Artistic Production and (Re)production: Youth Arts Programmes as Enablers of Common Cultural Dispositions0
Book Review: Black Lives and Bathrooms: Racial and Gendered Reactions to Minority Rights Movements0
Music Worlds and Event Networks: An Exposition0
Emotions in a Time of Radical Change: Untangling Narratives of Pride and Achievements in Post-1989/1991 Lithuania and East Germany0
Dystopian Games: Diagnosing Modernity as the Scene of Tests, Trials and Transformations0
Fashion as ‘Force for Change’? How Ideologization Reshapes the Work of Intermediaries in the Legitimation of Culture0
Book Review: The Class Matrix: Social Theory After the Cultural Turn0
Investigating Collective Emotional Structures: Theoretical and Analytical Implications of the ‘Deep Story’ Concept0
Concrete Culture: The Planning Hearing as a Stage for Cultural Debates0
The Activist Character: Power and Empowerment in Bestselling Activist Memoirs in the United States0
Book Review: Passionate Work: Choreographing a Dance Career0
From Author to Network: The Coming of Age of Civil Sphere Theory0
Accomplishing Reality Media: The Affective Lure of Online Crime Discussions0
Performative Polarization: The Interactional and Cultural Drivers of Political Antagonism0
Cultural Translations of Social Movements: A Field-Translation Interpretation of the Adoption Pattern of the Temperance Movement in the Danish Field of Moral Reform0
‘If God is a DJ’: Heritage Rave, the Ageing Raver and the Bodywork of the DJ0
Transcending Collectivist Culture: An Examination of Male Chinese Athletes’ Dual Identities in Their Everyday Lives0
Book Review: Scripting Defiance: Four Sociological Vignettes0
Adjusting the Coordination of Parental Foodwork Practices0
How Professionals Cooperate through Conflicts: Networks and Social Face in the Workplace0
Book Review: Race, Taste, Class and Cars0
Consecrating and Desecrating Elite Communities: Fearing and Dealing with Social Deviance in Sweden’s Wealthiest Neighborhood0
In Sync: Distinguishing Taste through the ‘What’ and the ‘How’ of Live Music Consumption0
You Can’t Take it to Heart: How Czech Residents from MENA and Sub-Saharan Africa Make Sense of Ethnoracial Othering0
Everything is in My Hands. Creative Subjectivities in Privileged Art School Students0
Gourmet Burgers and Classifications of Highbrow–Lowbrow Hybrids: Middle-Class Consumers’ Perspectives on McDonald’s Burgers Designed by Michelin Chefs0
Book Review: Working Class Experiences of Social Inequalities in (Post-) Industrial Landscapes. Feelings of Class0
Book Review: Food & Society: Principles and Paradoxes (3rd Edn)0
Urban Art in Lisbon: Emerging Opportunities and Career Aspirations0
Holocaust Memory as Cultural Code: The UK National Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre as Case Study0
What’s Up with Cultural Sociology? From Bourdieu and the Mainstream to ‘Productive Weirdness’0
Architecture as a Mode of Existence. The Hamburg Case of Rebuilding the Bornplatz Synagogue0
Licensed to Rock (or so they say). How Popular Music Programmes at Higher Music Education Institutions Create Professional Musicians0
Book Review: Handcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy of Craft Beer WilsonEli Revelle YanoHandcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy of Craft BeerUniversit0
Processual Power, Processual Meaning?0
Book Review: The Global Rules of Art: The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy0
Book Review: Scandal in Japan: Transgression, Performance and Ritual PrusaIgorScandal in Japan: Transgression, Performance and RitualRoutledge: Abingdon, 2024, £135 hbk (ISBN: 9781032472485), 119 pp.0
John Locke, Private Property and the Birth of Achieved Celebrity0
Cooking and Crafting in a Digital Economy: The Effects of Online Commodification on Leisure Activities0
Book Review: Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma0
Where is the Black Town in American National Memory? The Case of Princeville, North Carolina0
Book Review: The Cultural Politics of COVID-190
Alexander’s Thesis of Value Generalization Reconsidered: Focusing on the 2008 Candlelight Vigils in South Korea0
Secret objects in the home: Potency, (in)visibility and everyday relationships0
Encountering the Civil Sphere Through Cinema: The Cinematic Gap as a Pathway to Civil Evaluation and Repair0
Self-Brand or Be Branded Out: The Convergence of Mainstream and Independent Music Talent Scouting Under Platform Capitalism0
Music, Resilience and ‘Soundscaping’: Some Reflections on the War in Ukraine0
Who is on Show? Globalization of Private Contemporary Art Museums in China0
Technology as (Dis-)Enchantment. AlphaGo and the Meaning-Making of Artificial Intelligence0
The Artification of the Nude: A Symbolic Revolution in the Art Field of Republican China (1912–1937)0
Derron Wallace, The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth0
Neoliberal Feminism and Political Leadership: The Representation of Giorgia Meloni and Elly Schlein in Popular Culture0
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
Beyond Competitiveness? Academic Gift Culture and Its Discontents0
Book Review: Revolution of Things: The Islamism and Post-Islamism of Objects in Tehran0
Cultural Sociology in Mexico: Meaning-Making as Hybridization, Power, and Cultural Structure0
Educational Mobility and Cultural Omnivorousness in Germany0
Civil Sphere Values and Moral Responsibility in Cultural Production: The Curation of Music Festivals Today0
Interstitial Institutions0
Social Divisions in Accounts of Discrimination: Experiences among Performing Artists0
Symbolic Violence and the Social Space: Self-imposing the Mark of Disgrace?0
Power, Culture, and Materiality in Modernity0
Navigating the Beauty Bind: Young People’s Intersectional Perspectives on Appearance, Privilege and Inequality0
On The Making of White American Identity: Ron Eyerman and Eric Taylor Woods in Conversation0
Book Review: The Trouble with Jokes: Humour and Offensiveness in Contemporary Culture and Politics ButlerNickThe Trouble with Jokes: Humour and Offensiveness in Contempo0
How Does Popular Sovereignty Vary?0
Performative Feelings for Others: The Civil Repair of Organised Competitive Sports0
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