Cultural sociology emerges because societies are not nearly as rational as they believe.
Alexander, J.C., Smith, P. COVID-19 and symbolic action: global pandemic as code, narrative, and cultural performance. American Journal of Cultural Sociology 8, 263–269 (2020).
The art world is saturated with economic imperatives that limit the power of conventional artistic critique to meaningfully contest economic instrumentalism!
Upton-Hansen C, Kolbe K, Savage M. An Institutional Politics of Place: Rethinking the Critical Function of Art in Times of Growing Inequality. Cultural Sociology. October 2020.
“Presenting oneself as a “fan” has gone from niche to mainstream in only a couple of decades.”
Vilde Schanke Sundet, Line Nybro Peteresen, "Ins and outs of transmedia fandom: Motives for entering and exiting the SKAM fan community online," Poetics, 2020,
