
The Social Organization of Arts
A Theoretical Compendium- Authors:
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- Publisher:
- 2025
Summary
In recent decades, social and economic changes have brought about a growing awareness of the role of art and culture in society. As a result, scholars have turned their attention to a sociological view of arts, developing hermeneutic approaches and conducting empirical research that have led to a wealth of insights into the organization of arts. These studies of the creation, production, distribution, evaluation and consumption of arts are clearly sociological, but they include approaches from other disciplines, notably arts management studies and cultural policy research. Volker Kirchberg and Tasos Zembylas critically discuss seven major theories of the social organization of arts in Western societies, with the aim of encouraging further research and theoretical developments.
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Bibliographic data
- Edition
- 1/2025
- Copyright Year
- 2025
- ISBN-Print
- 978-3-8376-7284-8
- ISBN-Online
- 978-3-8394-7284-2
- Publisher
- mdwPress, Bielefeld
- Language
- German
- Pages
- 274
- Product Type
- Monograph
Table of contents
- Chapter 5 A Comparative Discussion of the Theories of Becker, Bourdieu and LuhmannPages 95 - 114Authors: |Download chapter (PDF)
- Chapter 7 Sociological Neo-Institutionalism: Organization of Arts as a Social ConstructionPages 137 - 158Authors: |Download chapter (PDF)
- Chapter 9 Comparing the Production of Culture Perspective, the Sociological Neo-Institutionalism and the Cultural Institutions StudiesPages 181 - 200Authors: |Download chapter (PDF)
- Chapter 10 Networking the Arts – Going Beyond the Discussed TheoriesPages 201 - 214Authors: |Download chapter (PDF)