Syllabus/achievement requirements

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1. Introduction: Introduction to the course and the concept of culture

*Spillman, Lynn (2002) Introduction: Culture and cultural Sociology, in Lynn Spillman (ed) Cultural Sociology. Malden (MA) and Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 1-15. (14 sider)

*Schiermer, Bj?rn (2012): The Sociology of Culture, In: Aakvaag, Gunner et al. (red): Scandinavian Sensibilities: Introduction to Sociology. London: Pearson, pp. 274-297. (23 sider)

2: Jeffrey Alexander and the Strong Program of cultural sociology (Tore Wits? Rafoss)

@Jeffrey C. Alexander and Philip Smith (2003) The strong program in cultural sociology: Elements of a structural hermeneutics, in The Meaning of Social Life – A Cultural Sociology. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 3-26. (23 sider)

*Jeffrey C. Alexander (2001) Social performance between ritual and strategy, In Performance and Power, Malden (MA) og Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 25-81. (56 sider)

3. Culture, charisma and the symbolics of power (Anne Krogstad)

@Krogstad, Anne and Aagoth Storvik (2007) Seductive Heroes and Ordinary Human Beings: Charismatic Political Leadership in France and Norway, Comparative Social Research 23: 211-245. (34 sider)

@Geertz, Clifford (1977) Centers, Kings, and Charisma: Reflections on the Symbolics of Power, in Ben-David, Joseph and Terry Nichols Clarke (eds.) Culture and its creators: essays in honor of Edward Shils. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 150-171. (22 sider)

*Krogstad, Anne (2017) A Political History of Visual Display. The Poster (forthcoming). (ca 20 sider)

4. Participation in politics: Social Movements

*Snow, David A, Soule Sarah A and Kriesi, Hanspeter (2003) Mapping the terrain, in David A Snow, Sarah A. Soule and Hanspeter Kriesi (eds) The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. Malden, Oxford, Victoria: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 3-16. (Ch. 1) (13 sider)

*Koopmans, Ruud (2003) Protest in time and space: the evolution of waves of contention, in David A Snow, Sarah A. Soule and Hanspeter Kriesi (eds) The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. Malden, Oxford, Victoria: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 19-46. (ch. 2) (27 sider)

*Rhys, William H (2003) The cultural context of collective action: constraints, opportunities and the symbolic life of social movements, in David A Snow, Sarah A. Soule and Hanspeter Kriesi (eds) The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. Malden, Oxford, Victoria: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 91-115. (Ch. 3) (24 sider)

5. Culture and ritual participation

*Dayan, Daniel and Katz Elihu (1994) Defining Media Events: High Holidays of Mass consumption, in Media Events. Cambridge (MA) and London: Harvard University Press, 1-24. (23 sider)

@Schiermer, Bj?rn and Hjalmer Bang Carlsen (2017) Nostalgia, Irony and Collectivity in Late-Modern Culture: Ritual around the Disney Christmas Show in Scandinavia, Acta Sociologica, 60(2): 158-175. (27 sider)

@Collins, Randal (2005) Interaction Ritual. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 32-46, 47-88 (57 sider)

6. Bodily participation and bodily politics

*Brennan, Teresa (2004) The transmission of affect. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, pp. 1-20, 51-74. (44 sider)

@Gibbs, Anna (2008) Panic! Affect Contagion, Mimesis and Suggestion in the Social Field, Cultural Studies Review, 14(2): 130-145. (37 sider) 

@Blackman, Lise (2007) Reinventing Psychological matters: The importance of the suggestive realm of Tardes' ontology, Economy and Society, 36(4): 574-596. (22 sider) 

Supplying litterature (in Danish)

[Knudsen, Britta Timm og Stage, Carsten (2016) "Affektteori", i Bj?rn Schiermer (red.) Kulturteori og kultursociologi. K?benhavn: Reitzels Forlag, pp. 53-75.]

7. Culture without politics?

@Maffesoli, Michel (1996) Tribalism. In: Maffesoli, M.: Time of the Tribes. London: Sage: 72 – 103. (31 sider)

@Evans, David (1997): Michel Maffesoli's Sociology of Modernity and Postmodernity. An Introduction and Critical Assessment. In: The Sociological Review, 45(2): 220-243. (23 sider)

Supplying litterature (in Danish)

[Schiermer, Bj?rn, Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Anders Petersen (2016): "Michel Maffesoli", in Bj?rn Schiermer (ed.): Kultursteori og kultursociologi. K?benhavn: Reitzels Forlag, pp. 309-340.] 

8. Politics of every day culture (Lise Kj?lsr?d)

@Kj?lsr?d, Lise (2013) Mediated Activism. Contingent Democracy in Leisure Worlds, Sociology 47(6): 1207-1223(16 sider)

*Spracklen, Karl (2010) Gorgoroth’s Gaahl’s Gay! Power, Gender and the Communicative Discourse on the Black Metal Scene, in R Hill and K Spracklen (eds) Heavy Fundamentalisms: Music, Metal and Politics. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, pp. 89-101. (12 sider)

@Swidler, Ann (1986) Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies, American Sociological Review 51(2): 273–86.(13 sider)

9. Subculture and post-subculture

*Hebdige, Dick (1979): Subculture: The meaning of Style. London and New York: Methuen & Co., pp 90-130. (40 sider)

*Williams, Patrick J. (2011): Subcultural Theory: Traditions and concepts. Cambridge: Polity, pp. 17-35. (13 sider)

@Bennet, Andy (1999): Subcultures or Neo-Tribes? Rethinking the Relationship between Youth, Style and Musical Taste, Sociology 33(3): 599-617. (18 sider)

10. Contemporary ?outh culture 

@Schiermer, Bj?rn (2014): Late-modern Hipsters: New Tendencies in Popular Culture, Acta Sociologica, 57(2): 167-181. (15 sider)

*Sonntag, Susan (2008): Notes on 'camp', in The Cult Film Reader (edited by Ernst Mathijs and Xavier Mendik). Maidenhed: Open University press, pp. 41-52. (11 sider)

*Ross, Andrew (2008): Uses of camp, in The Cult Film Reader (edited by Ernst Mathijs and Xavier Mendik). Maidenhed: Open University press, pp. 53-66. (13 sider)

*Reynolds, Simon (2011): Introduction: The re-decade, Prologue: Don't look back: Nostalgia and retro, in Retromania. London: Faber and Faber: ix-xxxvi (27 sider)

11. Critique of mass culture and sociology of art (The Frankfurt School)

*Benjamin, Walter (2002): The Work of art in the age of its reproducibility, in Walter Benjamin Selected Writings III (1935-1938) (edited by Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings) Cambridge (MA) and London: Harvard University Press, pp. 101-140. (39 sider) 

@Kracauer, Siegfried (1975): The mass ornament, New German Critique 5, 67-76. (9 sider)

*Adorno, Theodor W. (1991): On Lyric Poetry and Society, in: Adorno, Theodor, W. Notes to Literature vol. I. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 37-54. (17 sider)

*Bürger, Peter 1996: Theory of the Avantgarde. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 35-54. (19 sider)

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