#sociologicalplaylist 3: Jonathan Dean's article on 'left politics in the age of the social media influencer'. A really sharp analysis of UK-US online left culture. Sadly Jonathan is no longer with us, I wish I'd known him better (met him briefly years ago). journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
From solidarity to self-promotion? Neoliberalism and left politics in the age of the social media influencer - Jonathan Dean, 2024
The aim of this article is to map the contested intersections of influencer culture and left/progressive politics within the current conjuncture. Furthermore, d...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
#sociologicalplaylist 3: Jonathan Dean's article on 'left politics in the age of the social media influencer'. A really sharp analysis of UK-US online left culture. Sadly Jonathan is no longer with us, I wish I'd known him better (met him briefly years ago). journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#sociologicalPlaylist p2, Alessandra Lembo's study of country music fans and their taste trajectories. A criminally under-cited paper (ethnographies of music taste using Bourdieu but in a critical way are as rare as unicorns) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Three chords & [somebody’s] truth: Trajectories of experience and taste among hard country fans
To date, much social scientific work on taste has relied on Bourdieu’s concept of habitus to account for changes in tastes across the life course. But…
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December 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
#sociologicalPlaylist p2, Alessandra Lembo's study of country music fans and their taste trajectories. A criminally under-cited paper (ethnographies of music taste using Bourdieu but in a critical way are as rare as unicorns) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I might start a #sociologicalPlaylist (books, articles etc. I think should be rediscovered). Here's Sayer's Why Things Matter to People, a masterpiece on everyday ethics & morality. Philosophically powered but crystal-clear writing that takes time, care & craft www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
Why Things Matter to People
Cambridge Core - Social Theory - Why Things Matter to People
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November 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I might start a #sociologicalPlaylist (books, articles etc. I think should be rediscovered). Here's Sayer's Why Things Matter to People, a masterpiece on everyday ethics & morality. Philosophically powered but crystal-clear writing that takes time, care & craft www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...