Institutional Recognition in the Transnational Literary Field, 1955–2005

Abstract

Contributing to research on social processes of cultural de-hierchization, this

¿Hacia una mayor apertura cultural? Un análisis de la cobertura de artículos sobre música en la prensa de referencia de cinco países europeos (1960-2010)

“…En esta labor han jugado un papel fundamental las secciones culturales de los periódicos, que se establecieron, tal y como las conocemos ahora, alrededor de mediados del siglo XX (Jaakkola, 2015). Estas reflejan, en sus intervenciones en forma de críticas, comentarios y noticias, la evolución de los gustos y su clasificación en las jerarquías culturales, lo que se puede apreciar tanto en la selección de los productos culturales como en su valoración (Janssen 1999;Janssen, kuipers y Verboord 2008;Verboord 2014;Jaakkola 2015;Verboord, kuipers y Janssen 2015). La difusión masiva de los periódicos de referencia como conformadores de la opinión pública hace que merezca la pena tener en cuenta qué se publica en sus páginas destinadas a la cultura para analizar la evolución de los gustos y su ordenación en el imaginario simbólico de cada una de las sociedades a las que estos periódi-cos se dirigen (Purhonen, Lauronen y Heikkilä 2015).…”

Measuring Cultural Capital: Taste and Legitimate Culture of Czech Youth

“…The principles of evaluation and consecration are studied especially in the context of film production (Allen & Lincoln 2004;Kersten & Verboord 2014), but also literature (Verboord et al 2015) and specific niche genres and fields (Allington 2015;Dubois & Méon 2013). They show the nature of criteria that leads to cultural recognition, or even consecration in 'halls of fame' of the cultural world.…”

“…Again, determining the content of legitimate culture via a priori assumptions often leads to results showing its decreasing importance and the blurring of cultural boundaries, resulting in the search for new forms of cultural capital (Gripsrud et al 2011;Prieur & Savage 2013). Little attention is paid to the actual institutional mechanisms of ascribing legitimacy (Allen & Lincoln 2004;Lizardo 2008;Verboord et al 2015;Warde 2008), whether through the evaluative work of critics' in the form of reviews ( Baumann 2001), canonical pedagogical practices (Fishman & Lizardo 2013), or the activities of cultural intermediaries in general ( Maguire & Matthews 2014).…”

“…First, as this study doesn't engage the issues of the dimensionality and dynamics of the cultural field itself (cf. Allen & Lincoln 2004;Kersten & Verboord 2014;Verboord et al 2015), the primary concern of the methodological approach lies in encompassing as wide range of cultural products mentioned by respondents as possible. Despite its limitation, the Metacritic database offers the reliable aggregation of critical evaluation of not only recognized works, but also those less common and unconsecrated.…”

“…Despite the new development of methodological tools employed in the study of cultural capital (Friedman et al 2015; see also Beer & Taylor 2012), there remains a major gap between accounts of institutions legitimizing cultural products (e.g. Allen & Lincoln 2004;Kersten & Verboord 2014;Verboord et al 2015) and survey-based studies of the distribution of taste. The aim of this paper is to explore the possibility of incorporating institutional evaluation of cultural taste into survey-based data.…”