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Handbook of Culture and Social Networks
This forward-thinking Handbook explores two major research strands in the fast-developing field of culture and network analysis: the underlying social networks of culture and the cultural bases of social networks.
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This forward-thinking Handbook explores two major research strands in the fast-developing field of culture and network analysis: the underlying social networks of culture and the cultural bases of social networks.
Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, editors Nick Crossley and Paul Widdop bring together world-leading academics working on the culture-networks interface. The Handbook of Culture and Social Networks outlines theoretical foundations, applies network theory to varying acts and forms of culture, and brings into focus the question of social and relational meaning itself. Presenting empirical data, simulated network studies and first-person experiences, chapter authors develop nuanced social network analyses to help us understand the ways in which we experience and exist in society.
This Handbook is an invaluable resource for students and academics working in cultural sociology, social networks and sociological theory. Exploring social networks in a variety of different cultural contexts, it will also appeal to researchers and practitioners in the arts and humanities.
Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, editors Nick Crossley and Paul Widdop bring together world-leading academics working on the culture-networks interface. The Handbook of Culture and Social Networks outlines theoretical foundations, applies network theory to varying acts and forms of culture, and brings into focus the question of social and relational meaning itself. Presenting empirical data, simulated network studies and first-person experiences, chapter authors develop nuanced social network analyses to help us understand the ways in which we experience and exist in society.
This Handbook is an invaluable resource for students and academics working in cultural sociology, social networks and sociological theory. Exploring social networks in a variety of different cultural contexts, it will also appeal to researchers and practitioners in the arts and humanities.
Critical Acclaim
‘Social networks link the individual and the collective, but contextually so. This amazing collection of authors explores many contexts in which networks shape, and are shaped by, culture. A most meaningful read.’
– Ulrik Brandes, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
‘This innovative Handbook advances cultural sociology through a network perspective. Its studies of the social worlds of cultural and leisure activities – music, film, theatre, art, and photography, plus science, sport, and festivals – are complemented by theoretical reflections on the traditional sociology of knowledge temporal dynamics, and the communicative flow of meanings. It is an essential guide for those interested in social network analysis, cultural sociology, and theoretical sociology.’
– John Scott CBE, Universities of Plymouth, Leicester, Essex and Strathclyde, UK
– Ulrik Brandes, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
‘This innovative Handbook advances cultural sociology through a network perspective. Its studies of the social worlds of cultural and leisure activities – music, film, theatre, art, and photography, plus science, sport, and festivals – are complemented by theoretical reflections on the traditional sociology of knowledge temporal dynamics, and the communicative flow of meanings. It is an essential guide for those interested in social network analysis, cultural sociology, and theoretical sociology.’
– John Scott CBE, Universities of Plymouth, Leicester, Essex and Strathclyde, UK
Contents
Contents
1 Introduction to Handbook of Culture and Social Networks 1
Nick Crossley and Paul Widdop
PART I THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
2 The culture/network interface 16
Paul D. McLean and Elizabeth Arthur
3 Templates of eventful action in social networks 28
Robin Wagner-Pacifici and Ronald L. Breiger
4 Networks, culture and inequality 40
Paul DiMaggio
5 Cultural tastes and everyday networks 54
Omar Lizardo
6 Economic networks and political culture 66
Maurice Bokanga, Benjamin Rohr and John Levi Martin
7 Interaction ritual, relational sociology, and spiraling evolutions 77
Erika Summers-Effler, Joseph O’Donnell, and Pace T. Ward
PART II CULTURAL DOMAINS
8 Networked musicking and music worlds 92
Nick Crossley
9 Networks and culture amongst non-human species 106
Michael Chimento
10 Sport social network analysis 121
Paul Widdop
11 Film networks 139
Pete Jones and Katharina Burgdorf
12 Scientific networks 154
Elisa Bellotti and Alejandro Espinosa-Rada
13 Theatre and networks 168
Marco Serino
14 Developing a career: networks and success in the photography world 179
Katherine A. Giuffre
15 Social media as a new performance space: reinventing the music world
and social networks 189
Tugba Aydin Ozturk
16 Contemporary art as a relational good 199
Annatina Aerne
17 Festivals, networks and communities 213
David Jarman
PART III NETWORKS AND MEANINGS
18 Meaning structures 226
Jan Fuhse
19 Relational meaning in social network analysis 239
Neha Gondal
20 Socio-semantic networks 250
Nikita Basov and Camille Roth
21 Meaning flows in social networks 270
Christine Moser
1 Introduction to Handbook of Culture and Social Networks 1
Nick Crossley and Paul Widdop
PART I THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
2 The culture/network interface 16
Paul D. McLean and Elizabeth Arthur
3 Templates of eventful action in social networks 28
Robin Wagner-Pacifici and Ronald L. Breiger
4 Networks, culture and inequality 40
Paul DiMaggio
5 Cultural tastes and everyday networks 54
Omar Lizardo
6 Economic networks and political culture 66
Maurice Bokanga, Benjamin Rohr and John Levi Martin
7 Interaction ritual, relational sociology, and spiraling evolutions 77
Erika Summers-Effler, Joseph O’Donnell, and Pace T. Ward
PART II CULTURAL DOMAINS
8 Networked musicking and music worlds 92
Nick Crossley
9 Networks and culture amongst non-human species 106
Michael Chimento
10 Sport social network analysis 121
Paul Widdop
11 Film networks 139
Pete Jones and Katharina Burgdorf
12 Scientific networks 154
Elisa Bellotti and Alejandro Espinosa-Rada
13 Theatre and networks 168
Marco Serino
14 Developing a career: networks and success in the photography world 179
Katherine A. Giuffre
15 Social media as a new performance space: reinventing the music world
and social networks 189
Tugba Aydin Ozturk
16 Contemporary art as a relational good 199
Annatina Aerne
17 Festivals, networks and communities 213
David Jarman
PART III NETWORKS AND MEANINGS
18 Meaning structures 226
Jan Fuhse
19 Relational meaning in social network analysis 239
Neha Gondal
20 Socio-semantic networks 250
Nikita Basov and Camille Roth
21 Meaning flows in social networks 270
Christine Moser
