Quirijn van den Hoogen
One of my tasks at the Arts, Culture and Media programme has been to introduce students to the field of art sociology providing them with the theoretical concepts they need to successfully navigate our field of study. Over the years, we have felt increasingly dissatisfied with how introductory text books describe art sociology. Therefore, we have set out to write our own text book which has now appeared in print and as e-book with Routledge. The book is titled: Sociology About Art. An Introduction to how Sociologists Study the Arts. It covers arts in all of its forms and shapes, from the fine arts, to street art, to memes and TikTok-videos, introducing all different strands of sociology.
For sociologists, making, distributing and using art and cultural products constitute social practices. This view differs from that of scholars in the humanities who traditionally pay close attention to the composition and internal meaning of art and cultural objects.
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