Keimyung University, Korea. CCS Visiting Faculty Fellow
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Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. CCS Visiting Faculty Fellow
Both documents should be read; please read the paper first and then “Some Written Thoughts”
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Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), México, CCS Visiting Faculty Fellow
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Lehman College, CUNY ~ CCS Faculty Fellow
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University of British Columbia ~ CCS Visiting Predoctoral Fellow
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Augustana College ~ CCS Faculty Fellow
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United States Academy at West Point
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Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
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New York University
(with Sonia Prelat and Shelly Ronen)
There are two documents for this week. The main reading is a chapter of the book (The Elephant in the Field: Awards and Recognition) that will be the main focus. The supplemental document is an overview of the entire book, to give readers a sense of the whole.
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Yale University
There are two documents for this week. In addition to the main reading there is supplemental document containing a gallery of images generated through this analysis.
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Yale University ~ CCS Director
Co Author ~ Dominik Zelinsky ~ University of Edinburgh; CCS Predoctoral Fellow
Abstract: For too long the sociology of the arts has emphasised social processes over symbolic and moral factors in explaining the rise and fall of artistic reputations. We offer a new approach that gives greater centrality to pollution dynamics. Specifically, we turn to the literary field, identify “literary degradation”, and show there are two pathways along which this degradation occurs – via a reclassification of the oeuvre, and of the author. The paper engages in a sustained analysis of the Danish writer known as Sven Hassel. Between the 1950s and 1970s he fell from his initial position as an acclaimed high-culture figure likened to Remarque or Hemingway and became seen as an unimportant writer of militaristic pulp. Hassel’s case allows us to analytically distinguish both of the pathways of degradation, identify some intermediate mechanisms, and show how these might be divergently activated in regional contexts. In his native Denmark, Sven Hassel became a shady persona non grata and the very presence of his works in public libraries was questioned. In the United Kingdom, where he sold over 15 million copies of his books, he remains remembered an author of slightly controversial violent novels for a largely uneducated male audience.
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel ~ CCS Visiting Graduate Student
Abstract: Present paper focuses on the symbolic meanings of metaphors and their potential social effects. Specifically, it examines the case of the Jewish Ultra-Orthodox “Ḥardakim” poster campaign distributed throughout Ultra-Orthodox communities in Israel in 2013. The overall aim of the campaign was to prevent Ultra-Orthodox men from serving in the Israeli army. In light of cultural sociology’s strong program and social group theory, the paper interprets the symbolic meanings of the main metaphors in the campaign in order to reconstruct the lifeworld of this religious group. On that basis, it offers a discussion of how metaphors were strategically utilized in order to draw social boundaries, uphold social norms and sanction group members who deviate from those. The paper’s empirical contribution is a case study of how symbolic meanings of metaphors as a part of propagandistic communication targets and exploits social identities in order to mobilize collective emotions thereby provoking certain actions. It contributes theoretically by arguing that deeming norm-deviant group members internal threats is an efficient propaganda tool for maintaining intragroup behavioral codes.
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Stockholm University, Sweden ~ CCS Faculty Fellow
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College of the Holy Cross ~ CCS Research Affiliate
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The New School ~ CCS Faculty Fellow
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Yale University ~ CCS Junior Fellow
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Yale University ~ CCS Junior Fellow
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University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Bentley University and University of Siegen
University of Siegen
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University of Michigan
Abstract: During the latter part of the twentieth century, research in social mobility has almost exclusively relied on the concepts of aspirations and expectations in the effort to assess subjective orientations to future prospects and desires. This paper advances sociological approaches to mobility research by responding to some methodological and conceptual limitations inherent in this approach. A new interpretive framework is proposed that includes an extended vocabulary for delineating and assessing the distinct mental constructs that comprise subjective orientations to mobility. This framework also helps in deciphering the agency-related consequences of an absence of any of these constructs in an individual’s orientation to mobility. The utility of this vocabulary is illustrated by applying it to some case examples from two fieldwork projects. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of the vocabulary for advancing understandings of subjectivity in the mobility process.
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University of Connecticut ~ CCS Faculty Fellow
The Moral Meaning of Taxes
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University of Leuven, Belgium
Beauty as Taste and Duty
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Cardiff University, United Kingdom ~ CCS Faculty Fellow
Victors, Vanquished and Victims: Visualizing Atrocity from the Ancient Past to the Global Present
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Masaryk University, Czech Republic ~ CCS Faculty Fellow
“Build that wall!” Narrating the U.S.-Mexico Border
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