Search results for "Sociology of culture"
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Pierre Bourdieu e le pratiche sociali
2022
Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) is considered one of the greatest sociologists of the contemporary era. A scholar of many interests, as can be seen from the number of his works, the breadth of the topics he dealt with, and the breadth of the theoretical-epistemological issues he debated with the sociological scientific community, he represents the example of a French intellectual who combines an intense research life with an equally intense presence in the public debate concerning controversial issues. Born into an underprivileged family (his father was a sharecropper later employed as a postal worker) in a small town in southern France, he trained at the École Normal Supérieure under Luis Alth…
Mobile Communication: Media Effects
2017
This entry introduces the reader to various media effects of mobile communication devices. The special focus is on mobile phones. The entry begins with a presentation of media effects on communication practices, on users, as well as on interlocutors and bystanders. It continues by analyzing the reverse effects of users on the redesign of mobile media. Lastly, the issues of how mobile communication is connected to social and geographical surroundings and how the use of mobile communication devices is related to the social structures of society are addressed. The entry concludes with a discussion of the media effects of mobile communication in the future. Keywords: digital media; mobile commu…
Contribución al análisis sociológico de la creatividad y la digitalización del campo cultural: creación, intermediación y crisis
2019
The so-called transition to the digital paradigm is eroding the autonomy of the cultural field achieved during the XIX and XX Centuries, subjugating them to economic and technological dynamics. However, the hegemonic discourse tends to interpret this as an overall positive process for the creative domain, focusing on the increase in information resource and creativity tool availability. However, an analysis of the theories and concepts of the sociology of culture reveals a more ambivalent balance. While the notion of authorship and creation can be interpreted from a more cooperative and relativistic view it is arguable whether this concept can be eliminated altogether. Also, although cultur…
The Cultural Dimension of Spanish Universities: The state of the issue
2020
La dimensión cultural de la universidad española es una realidad histórica que ha ido evolucionando, especialmente desde la llegada de la democracia a España. Esta investigación plantea una reflexión terminológica y expone su evolución histórica en un análisis comparado con la situación mundial, además de establecer un diagnóstico del momento actual a partir de dos trabajos de campo complementarios que permiten concluir con los principales problemas y barreras de lo que hasta hace poco se consideraba el tercer principio de la universidad, después de la docencia y la investigación.
Socioloģija
2006
Against cyber-utopianism. Utopian discourse "versus" sociological analysis of the transition to the digital paradigm of the cultural sphere
2015
La cultura ha dejado de ser la esfera social que iluminaba la modernidad. A pesar de su mayor centralidad social y económica propia de la sociedad postfordista, las transformaciones económicas y tecnológicas de los últimos años están cuestionando su propia existencia como esfera autónoma. En este contexto, el discurso ciberutopismo hace una lectura totalmente positiva de estas transformaciones como un empoderamiento del consumidor o del surgimientos de nuevas cadenas de cooperación creativa. Frente a este discurso ideológicamente cargado, es necesaria una ruptura epistemológica y una construcción de un programa de investigación desde la sociología de las artes y la cultura, que evalúe de fo…
Signaux qualitatifs et phénomène de star
2000
The superstar phenomenon describes a situation wherein few artists dominate the activity in which they engage and earn significant amounts of money. Most of models, trying to explain this phenomenon, take place clearly on the product market where artists provide ultimate and consumers. We adopt here a different approach by taking place on the labour market regrouping artists (whose the services are production factors) and employers (the producers of cultural products) and we demonstrate that die strategies, consisting in minimizing search costs under contraint of quality maximisation, can work towards explaining the emergence of a very unequal distribution of artistic incomes. In order to m…
Nations in black: charting the national thanatopolitics of mourning across European countries
2019
Periods of national mourning have been on the rise in the last decades in European societies as part of a wider process of democratization, whereby ordinary citizens have been increasingly granted ...
Transdisciplinary Discourses on Cross-Border Cooperation in Europe
2019
Accumulation and destruction of the trust ? : Popperian inspiration plan
2000
When, following other social sciences, economists address the mechanism of trust, they typically focus on the search of a justification or a foundation for trusting, the implicit starting point of the process they have in mind being zero trust, or distrust. By contrast, the present paper, inspired by the philosophy of Popper, suggests, as a starting point for trust, an individual decision associated with what Popper calls a conjecture - that is, a kind of theory - on how the individual (potentially) trusted "functions". The conjecture requires no justification but only the test of its implications. In turn, the decision to trust or to distrust does not reflect in a mechanical or passive way…