#sociologicalPlaylist

#sociologicalplaylist 5: a fascinating ethnography of trap music, aspirations and music-making among young migrants and minoritised Italians in Milan (in the context of moral panics about 'maranza', police violence & institutional racism). Really important work & beautifully written (in Italian)

#sociologicalplaylist 4: a recent Italian translation of Lea Ypi's work on class and migration. She's a political theorist & sociologists would learn significantly from how she recentres class in debates about migration & racism. The original essays are in English (probably easy to find via GS)

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...

#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....

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…

#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...

Why Things Matter to People Cambridge Core - Social Theory - Why Things Matter to People

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...