Dark tourism varies in form from other types of tourism in that it involves visiting tragic sites or sites where death of historic significance occurred. This study explores the influence of the main ...motivators on behavioral intentions of those visiting dark tourism events by examining the impact of learning, socialization, relaxation and escape, emotional response and novelty on behavioral intentions, whilst variable death obsession is set as potential moderator of interdependence between independent variables and dependent variables. The findings suggest that learning, emotional response and novelty have a statistically significant impact on behavioral intentions, while death obsession is not seen as significant moderator. Purpose of research was to determine if death obsession as psychological trait have any influence on relation between motivation and behavioral intention in dark tourism event context.
Organization theorists have long recognized that organizations take on elements from their environments in the course of being founded. This observation, articulated by Stinchcombe in 1965 and known ...today as the 'organizational imprinting hypothesis,' is frequently cited but remains little understood. Advances in cultural sociology and entrepreneurship studies have provided tools for unpacking this process. The author draws on these tools to underscore the role played by entrepreneurs in selecting and incorporating historically specific elements that may remain for decades or even centuries as fundamental features of the organization in question. The founding of the Paris Opera under Louis XIV serves as the basis for theorizing organizational imprinting at founding as an outcome of cultural entrepreneurship. Adapted from the source document.
The COVID-19 pandemic stirs up strong nationalist and localist sentiments; places pride themselves on containing the virus more effectively: We are doing better. We call this ‘biopolitical ...nationalism’, understood by us as the dynamics between body, geopolitics and affect. When looking at mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, we analyse how the biopolitical efforts of these places are being compared, applauded and supported. Under a discourse of life and survival, this celebration of biopolitical control does not fall into the classic reproduction of capital, but speaks to geopolitical identification. Biopolitics has morphed into a field of competition, of rivalry, of nationalistic – or, perhaps more generally, localist – power games. What can we do as Cultural Studies scholars?
Making Sense of Culture Patterson, Orlando
Annual review of sociology,
01/2014, Letnik:
40, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
I present a brief review of problems in the sociological study of culture, followed by an integrated, interdisciplinary view of culture that eschews extreme contextualism and other orthodoxies. ...Culture is defined as the conjugate product of two reciprocal, componential processes. The first is a dynamically stable process of collectively made, reproduced, and unevenly shared knowledge structures that are informational and meaningful, internally embodied, and externally represented and that provide predictability, coordination equilibria, continuity, and meaning in human actions and interactions. The second is a pragmatic component of culture that grounds the first, and it has its own rules of usage and a pragmatically derived structure of practical knowledge. I also offer an account of change and draw on knowledge activation theory in exploring the microdynamics of cultural practice and propose the concept of cultural configuration as a better way of studying cultural practice in highly heterogeneous modern societies where people shift between multiple, overlapping configurations.
Queer cultures are vibrant components of the constantly transforming societies of the 21st century. This is both socially and anthropologically recognizable, as well as individually readable. ...Categories such as wealth, success, amusement, but also sexuality and beauty have undergone major changes within queer subcultures and have influenced the reality of life for the general public. The entanglements in heteronormative systems and capitalist orders are increasingly putting a queer point of view under pressure, so that the question seems justified: What makes someone or something queer?
Queere Kulturen sind lebendige Bestandteile von sich stetig transformierende Gesellschaften des 21. Jahrhunderts. Dies ist sowohl sozial-anthropologisch erkennbar, als auch individuell ablesbar. Kategorien wie Wohlstand, Erfolg, Amüsement, aber auch Sexualität und Schönheit haben innerhalb queerer Subkulturen eine starke Veränderung erfahren und gleichsam so manche Lebensrealität einer allgemeinen Öffentlichkeit beeinflusst. Die Verstrickungen in heteronormative Systeme und kapitalistische Ordnungen bringen einen queeren Standpunkt zunehmend in Bedrängnis, sodass die Frage berechtigt erscheint: Was macht jemanden oder etwas queer?
Both Édith Piaf›s life and career were connected with Paris. Piaf›s artistic output includes over 300 songs. What place does Paris have in those songs? What cognitive, linguistic and didactic value ...do Piaf›s songs in which the capital of France appears bring? This article is an attempt to answer those questions. Based on the analysis of Édith Piaf›s lyrics, a comparison and description of city place names (urbanonyms) associated with Paris has been made. The article contains suggestions for didactic solutions aimed at developing language and cultural competences in French classes.
Recognizing that appellative systems are subjected to particular sociocultural codifications, through this study we try to verify whether the didactic presentation of the forms of address, and in ...particular the forms of address of the Spanish-speaking world, is not limited only to a formal schematization, overlooking the interpretative clues about the scope of use and sociopragmatic conventions. Carrying out the analysis of several textbooks of Spanish as a foreign language, we try to find out what functional values the address forms acquire in the proposed contextualizations. In our approach, we take into account both pronominal and nominal forms of address. We also propose to investigate the question of the conceptualizations through which different methods of Spanish as a foreign language reflect notional contents that are linked to the contexts of formality and proximity.
The aim of the article is to describe our proposition of a method for developing sensitivity to different cultures, and in particular cultural and intercultural competence, during Italian translation ...workshops. The content of university books for teaching functional languages are discussed. The authors pay special attention to the selection of appropriate authentic texts and real-life curiosities that go beyond the basic messages conveyed during courses and in textbooks. In the university coursebook which is analysed, one can find texts about atypical historical, linguistic, literary, and cinematic references, or about surprising common points that allow the learner to relate to Polish and even to his or her local context. The authors share their reflections on the reception of the book by students.
•A discussion of how cultural sociology can contribute to disaster research and vice versa.•A review of pioneering studies in the cultural sociology of disaster.•A proposal of future agenda.•A ...summary of the articles in the special issue.
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