The British are Coming...Again! The Hidden Agenda of "Cultural Studies?

Sherwood, Steven Jay; Smith, Philip; Alexander, Jeffrey C.; Grossberg, Lawrence; Nelson, Cary; Treichler, Paula A.

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“…This is a plausible enough argument -indeed it is one to which I have contributed (Sherwood et al, 1993). Isolated and self-indulgent in its ivory tower it has become a fat cat that is intellectually facile and theoretically indolent.…”

Section: Smith: Rescue Narrative In Social Theory 119mentioning

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The Rescue Narrative in Social Theory

Smith

2002

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The social sciences pride themselves on their reflexivity. Yet perhaps the impulse loses momentum a little prematurely. We can identify three stages to this reflexive action. The first is the academic activity through which we move beyond commonsense knowledge to critically assess and interpret the social world by carefully using the theories and methods of our profession. The vast majority of sociologists are engaged in this middle-range activity and go no further. The second level involves critical reflection on the discipline. In effect this is reflexivity about stage 1 activity considered in toto. This tends to be the work of academic opinion leaders. The texts to be reviewed here are all, to greater or lesser degree, engaged in this second-stage activity.This article takes things one step further and reviews these texts in turn, opening up a third level of reflexivity. It does so by pointing to the narrative frames that structure writing and legitimate such intellectual work. I suggest that each text can be read as an exemplar of the genre of academic

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Section: Smith: Rescue Narrative In Social Theory 119mentioning

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The Rescue Narrative in Social Theory

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2002

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“…CCCS research disregarded the meanings and experiences of participants, instead putting theoretical constructs in their place (Fine and Kleinman 1979;Martin 2004;Muggleton 2000;Sherwood, Smith, and Alexander 1993). Scholarship on subcultural identity also downplays linkages among members.…”

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Doing Scene

Glass

2012

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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Recently, scholars have analyzed phenomena like punk, hip-hop, and rave as "scenes, " networks of individuals who converge in local, translocal, and virtual spaces. While researchers conceptualize scenes as collectively produced entities, they have not closely explored the micro-processes by which they develop, as well as how those processes affect participants. In this article, I ask how members "do scene" by coming together to construct these settings. Drawing on ethnographic research on a punk scene in a small college town, I argue that members produce a scene through the establishment, transformation, and management of scene space. The construction of space in turn shaped the identities of participants, including differing levels of power among them. This case further underscores the interactional and context-specific groundings of scenes, scene space, and the identities of participants.Keywords scenes, youth subcultures, punk, space and place, identity, interpretive sociologyIn the study of punks, goths, ravers, hip-hoppers, metal heads, and other "music and style-centred youth cultures" (Bennett 2000, 1), recent research

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“…The relationship between cultural sociology and cultural studies has sometimes been acrimonious (for example, Sherwood et al. 1993), but it does not appear to be the case that this is attributed to conflict between paradigms and models.…”

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“…Cultural studies -along with cultural history -were also important in developing a new definition of culture in geography in the 1980s, which led to the study of new and more diverse subject areas by geographers and ultimately to the field of cultural geography (Anderson 2008: 47;Whatmore, 2006). The relationship between cultural sociology and cultural studies has sometimes been acrimonious (for example, Sherwood et al 1993), but it does not appear to be the case that this is attributed to conflict between paradigms and models. To the contrary, it has been argued that the two fields have many similarities, and that their conflicts are more political and methodological than theoretical (Inglis 2007).…”

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Cultural Sociology and Other Disciplines: Interdisciplinarity in the Cultural Sciences

Crane

2010

Sociology Compass

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The subject of this article is the relationship between cultural sociology and approaches to culture in other social science disciplines. What are the characteristics of the theoretical environment, in which cultural sociology is operating? The article begins by reviewing the literature on interdisciplinarity. Many authors argue that interdisciplinarity is increasing or should be increasing, but the general consensus is that disciplinary isolation is the norm. From this perspective, the relationships between disciplines can be understood in terms of trading zones, in which fields in different disciplines have little in common, theoretically, or empirically. Interdisciplinary communication in ‘trading zones’ requires that participants laboriously construct a set of terms that permits them to exchange ideas. Alternatively, I propose that clusters of fields in different disciplines are linked by free‐floating paradigms. Participants in disciplines that share ‘free‐floating paradigms’ are able to communicate with one another more readily. The article presents evidence for the second interpretation, drawn from survey articles in disciplinary handbooks. Disciplines and fields in which the study of culture draws from the same pool of paradigms and models and shares a set of lines of inquiry with cultural sociology include traditional disciplines, such as anthropology, communication, geography, history and psychology, and interdisciplinary fields, such as cultural studies, communication, feminist theory, material culture, science studies, and visual culture. Interdisciplinary fields – particularly cultural studies – perform an important role in diffusing paradigms across disciplinary boundaries. Free‐floating paradigms are associated with the work of major theorists, such as Lévi‐Strauss, Barthes, Foucault, Bourdieu, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Clifford Geertz, Bruno Latour, Adorno, Gramsci, and Habermas.

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The British are Coming...Again! The Hidden Agenda of "Cultural Studies?

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Cultural Sociology and Other Disciplines: Interdisciplinarity in the Cultural Sciences

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