Article(electronic)September 1, 2008

Culture and the Arts: From Art Worlds to Arts-in-Action

In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 619, Issue 1, p. 223-237

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Abstract

Through its embrace of the "cultural turn" and the "practice turn" in cultural sociology, recent work in the subfield of arts sociology has helped to advance our understanding of the role of culture in social life through its focus on arts-in-action. Empirically, this focus grew out of earlier work in the production and consumption of the arts, while, theoretically, it resonates with traditions within ethnomethodology, cognitive sociology, and the sociology of science and technology. The authors describe how new work in arts sociology unearths and develops our understanding of aesthetic consciousness, the tacit and often embodied bases of action, cognition, and engagement with cultural forms. This recent emphasis on materials and actions in turn permits critique of rule-based and more overtly cognitive models of agency structure. It also leads some of its proponents into areas that would not normally be viewed as topics for the field.

Languages

English

Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISSN: 1552-3349

DOI

10.1177/0002716208318634

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