Section on Sociology of Culture Refereed Roundtable Session.
Tuesday, August 14, 8:30am - 10:10am Organizer: Omar A. Lizardo (University of Notre Dame)
Table 01. Consumer Studies Research Network
Presider: Daniel Thomas Cook (Rutgers University)
White Trash: Fabulous and Savage Capitalism.
Karen Bettez Halnon (Pennsylvania State University)
The Civilizing Brand: Shifting Shame Thresholds and the Dissemination of Consumer Lifestyles.
Sam Binkley (Emerson College)
Carolina Local vs. California Organic: Consumer Acceptance of Competing Frames in Sustainable Agriculture.
Susan A. Munkres (Furman University)
Identity Construction and the iPod-Self.
Roger A. Salerno (Pace University)
Kid Experience of a Role-Playing Theme Park.
Lois A. West (Florida International University)
Table 02. Bodies, objects and practices
Presider: Erin O'Connor (New School for Social Research)
Hot Glass: Imagination in Glassblowing: A New Ethnographic Look at an Art.
Erin O'Connor (New School for Social Research)
Actor-network theory in biographical analysis
Paivi Kaipainen (University of Turku)
Electronic Communication and Co-Presence: The Practice of PowerPoint Presentations.
Jo Ann Brooks
Table 03. Collective Memory and Contested Identities
Presider: Max Arthur Herman
Contentious Language and Contested Memories: Remembering the Newark and Detroit "Riots" of 1967.
Max Arthur Herman
Why Coal Heritage?
Rebecca R. Scott (University of Missouri-Columbia)
Southerner and Irish? Regional and Ethnic Consciousness in Savannah, Georgia.
William L. Smith (Georgia Southern University)
On the Citizen-subject: Commemorating 1970s Political Violence in Thailand.
Sudarat Musikawong (University of California Santa Cruz)
Table 04. Cultural Capital in Action: Symbols and Strategies
Presider: Kathy Liddle (University of Toronto)
Thinking about Studying Cultural Capital in Mainland China.
Juchuan Colin Wang (University of Wisconsin-Marathon)
Cosmopolitanism or Class Distinction?
Meltem Yilmaz Sener (Univ of Illinois-Urbana Champaign)
Filling the Cultural Toolkit: Feminist Bookstores as Cultural Toolshops.
Kathy Liddle (University of Toronto)
What is Cultural Capital in the Workplace? Evidence From an Ethnographic Study.
David Purcell (University of Cincinnati)
Table 05. Cultural Logics and Institutional Contradictions
Presider: Dustin Mark Kidd (Temple University)
Production Standards and Moral Exchanges: Building Symbolic Bridges in the Organic Foods Industry.
Michael Haedicke (University of California-San Diego)
Advocating by Keeping Their Distance: Public Defending and the Translation of Achieved Attributes in Adjudication.
Nicole Martorano Van Cleve (Northwestern University)
No Longer Just an Elite Experience for All: New Models To Democratize the Arts.
Diane M. Grams (University of Chicago)
Witness for the Arts.
Dustin Mark Kidd (Temple University)
Table 06. Culture and Economy
The Meaning of Money in a Canadian Retail Bank.
Vanessa Iafolla (University of Toronto)
The Social Production of Taste and Style in Fashion: A Network-Based Approach to the Catwalk.
Frederic Clement Godart (Columbia University), Ashley E. Mears (New York University)
'Similar, yet Distinct': The Influence of Categorical Properties on Entry in Film Production.
Greta Hsu (UC Davis), Giacomo F. Negro (Bocconi University), Fabrizio Perretti (Bocconi University)
An Event Structure Analysis of the Cosmetic Surgery and Tattoo Industries in the United States.
Josh R. Adams (Ohio State University)
Donating Eggs, Reviving Eugenics: Genetic Capital on the Marketplace.
Lauren Jade Martin (CUNY Graduate Center)
Table 07. Culture and Symbolic Power
Presider: Shyon S. Baumann (University of Toronto)
Are Biennials redefining the art world map?
Ana Leticia Nascimento Fialho
Ethnic boundaries in national literary policies.
Pauwke Berkers (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Re-Imagining, Re-imaging and Remaking the City: Culture, Cultural Policy and Cultural Politics in Singapore.
Kian Woon Kwok (Nanyang Technological University)
Who Cares About Class Inequality?: The Framing of a Social Non-Problem in Gourmet Food Writing.
Shyon S. Baumann (University of Toronto), Josee Johnston (University of Toronto)
Table 08. Graduate Student Research Network
Presider: Omar A. Lizardo (University of Notre Dame)
Traveling to Belong: The construction of meaning and identity in homeland/heritage tourism.
Jillian L. Powers (Duke University)
The Mother Load: Childbirth as Maternal and Cultural Practice.
Alana Bibeau (University of Virginia)
Local Identities with Global Aspirations; Artists and the Challenges of Centralization.
Joanna L. Bron (CUNY Graduate Center)
Table 09. Culture, History and Locality
From Play to Play Community: The Emergence of the Philadelphia Mummers in the Nineteenth Century.
Patricia Anne Masters (George Mason University)
Music and Modernity in Uzbekistan.
Elif Kale Lostuvali (University of California)
Becoming a Capoeirista: The Diffusion of a Complex Cultural Form from Brazil to the US.
Danielle Hedegard (University of Arizona)
"Fades in Gently": The Cultural Impact of BBC Radio DJ John Peel.
Emily Coolidge (Bryn Mawr College), Nathan D. Wright (Bryn Mawr College)
Occupational Subculture and Myth: The Case of the Country Blues Musician in the 1920-30's US South.
William F. Danaher (College of Charleston)
Table 10. Ethics, Subjectivity and Truth
Presider: Jeffrey D. Montez de Oca (University of Southern California)
Expropriation of Popular Culture: Football as a Regime of Bodily Transformation.
Jeffrey D. Montez de Oca (University of Southern California)
The Transformation of Self-Fashioning Subjects.
Eijiroh Isa (University of Tokyo)
"Life as a Work of Art"?: The Sociology of Art and Life-Art.
Gordon C. Chang (University of California, San Diego)
Darkening Enlightenment: the Culture Industry.
Katayoun Baghai (McGill University)
The Social Frames of Sexual Freedom: Seduction, Conformity and Social Power in a "reflexive" age.
Alexandra Marie Kowalski (Central European University) and Monika Krause (New York University)
Dynamic and Fatigued Selves in Self-help Discourses on Depression.
Brigid Mary Philip (University of Melbourne)
Table 11. Fields of Cultural Production: Or the Economic World Reversed
Critical Attention In the Literary Field: How Consensus And Reputation Are Related.
Maya van der Eerden (Tilburg University)
Sociology of Objects Case Study: Terracotta Playing Hide-and-Seek in the Art Worlds.
Andrea L. Siegel (CUNY)
Propinquity and Happenstance in Poetry Communities and Careers.
Ailsa K. Craig (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Table 12. Formal and Quantitative Approaches to the Study of Culture
Contributions of Semantic Networks to Social Network Analysis: An Analysis of Institutional Religious Identities.
Ivan Furre (Indiana University)
Sociology and Human Interests: Measuring a Cognitive Structure of Sociology.
Yi Han (Univ. of Arizona)
Testing Belief in "The American Dream" - Cross-National Comparisons of Attitudes toward Government Intervention and Hard Work.
Geraldine M. Hendrix-Sloan (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)
Holiday Decorations: The Outward and Visible Display of Inward Status?
Ann Converse Shelly (Ashland University), Robert K. Shelly (Ohio University)
Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Circles in the Arts: The Case of the Arts and Crafts Circle of William Morris.
Michael P. Farre ll (University at Buffalo, SUNY)
Table 13. Meaning and Moral Order
Narratives, Meaning Making, and Dominance in Analogies: 9/11 as a new Pearl Harbor.
Brian T. Connor (University of Massachusetts)
Notes on Images and the Social Imaginary in the Construction of Narratives about Flight 93.
Alexander Tristan Riley
Thinking Outside the (Big) Box: Cultural and Moral Repertoires in the Wal-Mart Debate.
Rebekah Peeples Massengill (Princeton University)
Drawing Religious Battle Lines: The "Culture Wars Work" of Jack Chick's Anti-Catholic Cartoons.
Michael Ian Borer (Furman University)
Table 14. New Directions in the Study of Patterns of Cultural Choice
Presider: Steven J. Tepper (Vanderbilt University)
Taste Classification and Class-ification: Testing Musical Omnivorousness with Clustered Tastes.
Jeff D. Lundy
Tastes for Individual Cultural Products. A Contextual and Multilevel Approach.
Hugo J. Verdaasdonk (Tilburg University)
The American Omnivore: How American Musical Taste Patterns Differ From Those in Van Eijck's (2001) Dutch Study.
Jill Harrison-Rexrode (Virginia Tech), Michael Hughes (Virginia Tech), John Ryan (Virginia Tech)
Engaging Art: What Counts?
Steven J. Tepper (Vanderbilt University)
Sports and the Structure of High Status Culture.
Carl W. Stempel (California State University, East Bay)
Presiders: Nina Eliasoph (University Southern California) and Paul R. Lichterman (University of Southern California)
Discussion: cultural and historical perspectives on ordinary meanings in organizational settings.
Nina Eliasoph (University Southern California), Paul R. Lichterman (University of Southern California)
Grounding Political Culture: Political implications of everyday meanings.
Richard L. Wood (University of New Mexico)
The Influence of Coded Racial-Gendered Talk in Welfare Delivery.
Janice Johnson Dias (University of Michigan)
Studying Individual Socialization into Political and Professional Culture.
Michael P. Moody (University of Southern California)
Simmelian Ethnography: Researching Networks in Flux.
Ann Mische (Rutgers University)
Exploring sexual meaning-making in a longitudinal ethnographic and interview project. Elizabeth A. Armstrong (Indiana University), Laura Theresa Hamilton (Indiana University)
Table 16. Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Popular Culture
Gender conflict in Argentine popular music. The case of "cumbia villera" [cumbia from the shantytown]. Pablo Vila (Temple University), Pablo Seman (Universidad Nacional de San Martin)
Popular Culture Representations of Breast Cancer and their Impact on Women of Different Ages.
Lisa Cox Hall (University of Kansas), Brian Donovan (University of Kansas)
The Grip of Tradition: Hollywood Film and the Reproduction of Women's Place.
James J. Dowd (University of Georgia)
Tender Heroes, "Lezzybeans," and Abnormals: Re-Reading the Romance in Mass-Market Paperback Novels, 1950-1965.
Christine Virginia Wood (Northwestern University)
Table 17. Ritual, Drama and Performance
Presider: Mark D. Jacobs (George Mason University)
Reclaiming the Theory of Ritual: Recent Debates, New Perspectives.
Steven Vallas (George Mason University)
The Phenomenology of Compromised Integrity.
Mark D. Jacobs (George Mason University)
A Musical Public.
Lisa McCormick (Yale University)
The Actions of the Animal Liberation Front as Social Performance.
Brian M. Lowe (SUNY, College at Oneonta)
From a Time Beater to a Music Director: The Paradox of Conductor's Power.
Dmitry Khodyakov (Rutgers University)
Table 18. Space and Place
Presider: William G. Holt (Vermont Law School)
Consecration of Lands as Sacred Places.
James William Gibson (California State University)
Rebuilding Place: Race, Class and Disaster in New Orleans.
William G. Holt (Vermont Law School)
Racialized Place in the Black Hills.
Brooke Erin Neely (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Table 19. Subculture: The Meaning of Style
Before You Can Get Off Your Knees: Profane Existence and Anarcho-Punk as a Social Movement.
Emilie Lynn Hardman (Brandeis University)
Burning Culture: Discourse and Hegemony in the Burning Man Counterculture.
Eric P. Magnuson (Loyola Marymount University)
Raves, the EDM Scene and Social Constructions of Drug Use: an International Comparison.
Tammy L. Anderson (University of Delaware)
Musicultural Affiliation and the Adult Elite.
Angel M. Butts (Rutgers University)
Table 20. Symbolic Boundaries Reseach Network
Presider and Discussant: Bethany Bryson (James Madison University)
Inequality and Hedonism in American Culture.
Sharon Hays (University of Southern California)
Black Scholars on the Public Reception of Scholarship: A Project of Enforcing and Transcending Boundaries.
Alford A. Young (University of Michigan)
Casual Sex and the Social Climber: The Political Economy of University Hook Up Cultures.
Suzanne Shanahan (Duke University)
How Culture Travels: The Case of 'Coming Out' as 'Fat'.
Abigail C. Saguy (UCLA), Ann Ward (University of California, Los Angeles)
Finding Boundaries in Quantitative Data: Politics and Cultural Difference.
Bethany Bryson (James Madison University)
Table 21. The Production of Culture and the Culture(s) of Production
How control emerges in popular music production.
Linda Christina Portnoff (Stockholm School of Economics)
Taste at work: taste management in organizations in the cultural production field.
Jenny Lantz (Stockholm School of Economics)
The composer, society and the 'other': A sociological perspective on the compositional process.
Ian Damon Sutherland (University of Exeter)
The Cultural Economy of Prestige among Music Genres.
Steve S. Lee (Vanderbilt University)
Subversive Children's Stories: The Work of American Book Women, 1930-1950.
Amy Elisabeth Singer (Knox College)
Table 22. The Production of Space
I Wish That Was Abandoned! Exploring Meaning in Abandoned Buildings.
Len Albright (University of Chicago)
Towards a Structuration Theory of Urbanism.
Jeffrey Lowell Kidder (University of California, San Diego)
Table 23. The Public Sphere and Beyond: National Identity, Group Cultures and Emergent Publics
Is Anybody Listening? "Woman's Voice" and Public Sphere in Turkey.
Solen Sanli (New School University)
On the Construction of the Present Private/Public Sphere.
Gabriel Bar-Haim (Netanya Academic College)
Dynamic Pathways of Participation: Personal Transition, Group Association, and Political Commitment in Neighborhood Activism.
Andrew Deener (UCLA)
Making it Personal: Book Group Cultures and Discussions of Social Action.
Michelle E. Naffziger (Northwestern University)
Table 24. The Social Construction of Moral and Aesthetic Boundaries
Installing Contemporary Art: Configuring the Next Generation of Museum Visitors.
Sophia Krzys Acord (The University of Exeter)
Ordering the Court: Mainstreaming Morality in Daytime Syndicated Television.
C. Clayton Childress (UCSB)
Prophets and Sell Outs: Validating Membership and Policing Community in Spoken Word and Hip Hop.
Jane Joann Jones (New York University)
Music as Evil: Deviance and Norm Promotion in Classical Music.
Nathan Willett Pino (Texas State University- San Marcos)
Table 25. What's New in Culture and Cognition: A Discussion
Presider: Karen A. Cerulo (Rutgers University)
Discussant: Albert J. Bergesen (University of Arizona)
Discussant: Karen A. Cerulo (Rutgers University)
Discussant: Paul J. DiMaggio (Princeton University)
Discussant: Ralph LaRossa (Georgia State University)