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Cultural Sociology publishes peer-reviewed, empirically oriented, theoretically sophisticated, methodologically rigorous papers, which explore from a broad set of sociological perspectives a diverse range of socio-cultural forces, phenomena, institutions and contexts. The journal publishes original articles which advance the field of cultural sociology and the sociology of culture. View full journal description

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Constructing a Social Reality of Luck in the Art World

  • Natalie De Vito
  • Can-Seng Ooi
  • Asher Warren
  • Mia Lindgren
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Civil Sphere Theory Meets Cultural Sociology: Close Encounters of the Symbolic Kind

  • Christopher M Thorpe
  • Jeffrey C Alexander
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Sociogenetic Fields and the Fiction of Unity: Classed Taste and Regional Differentiation in Italian Food Consumption

  • Tomas Bilevicius
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Book Review: Beyond the Revival: The Cassette Tape as Cultural Form and Meaning System

  • Todd Nesbitt
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Dating Apps: The Uncertainty of Marketised Love

  • Carolina Bandinelli
  • Alessandro Gandini
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Beyond the Clickbait: Analysing the Masculinist Ideology in Andrew Tate’s Online Written Discourses

  • Steven Roberts
  • Callum Jones
  • Lucy Nicholas
  • Stephanie Wescott
  • Marcus Maloney
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Streaming’s Effects on Music Culture: Old Anxieties and New Simplifications

  • David Hesmondhalgh
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Navigating the Beauty Bind: Young People’s Intersectional Perspectives on Appearance, Privilege and Inequality

  • Josée Johnston
  • Jordan Foster
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Beyond the Clickbait: Analysing the Masculinist Ideology in Andrew Tate’s Online Written Discourses

  • Steven Roberts
  • Callum Jones
  • Lucy Nicholas
  • Stephanie Wescott
  • Marcus Maloney
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Friendship, Intimacy, and the Contradictions of Therapy Culture

  • Laura Eramian
  • Peter Mallory
  • Morgan Herbert
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Music, Resilience and ‘Soundscaping’: Some Reflections on the War in Ukraine

  • Janine Natalya Clark
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Performative Polarization: The Interactional and Cultural Drivers of Political Antagonism

  • Matthias Revers
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Nick Stevenson: Has the Future a Marxism? Questions of Capitalism, Culture and Resistance, Part 1

Lyn Spillman: Economic Culture in Contemporary Capitalism, Part 1

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