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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Alexander, J
• Bartmanski, D
• Giesen, B
• Jeffrey C. Alexander
• Bernhard Giesen
• Dominik Bartmanski
• Alexander, Jeffrey C.
• Bartmański, Dominik
• Giesen, Bernhard

Titel

Iconic Power: Materiality and Meaning in Social Life

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 01 02 Iconic Power is a collection of original articles that explores social aspects of the phenomenon of icon. Having experienced the benefits and realized the limitations of so called "linguistic turn," sociology has recently acknowledged a need to further expand its horizons. "Visual sociology" is emerging as a separate field and prominent scholars announce the coming of "the pictorial turn." The methods and themes taken up in these studies respond to this shift in social scientific interest. Each contribution to this book carefully tests the analytic purchase and empirical implications of iconicity. If we can succeed in understanding the iconic, we should be able to know our culture much better. 02 02 A collection of original articles that explore social aspects of the phenomenon of icon. Having experienced the benefits and realized the limitations of so called 'linguistic turn', sociology has recently acknowledged a need to further expand its horizons. 19 02 There is no other collection on icons from a cultural sociological angle Strong collection of internationally renowned scholars Addresses icons from a wide variety of disciplines Provides serious and diverse contribution to the field of cultural sociology 08 02 ' Iconic Power is the strongest theoretical statement to yet come out of the 'Strong Program' in Cultural Sociology. Arguably, more than any other trope, including those of ritual and performance, the concept of 'iconicity' promises to break free of the economistic, linguistic and other kinds of reductionisms that plague the cultural sciences. This fine volume contains both theoretical expositions on how pictorial icons do their cultural work, as well as applied analyses of phenomena such as 9/11, images of famines, Woodstock and Bayreuth as 'iconic' events, expensive Australian red wines and the political iconography of Post-Communist Eastern Europe. If cultural sociology is to have a vibrant future – and not repeat the mistakes of the past – then in Iconic Power: Materiality and Meaning in Social Life practitioners have a handbook on how to approach the distinctive character of the visual and other non-discursive symbols.' - Eduardo de la Fuente, Sociology, Flinders University; author of Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity 'Ranging in its coverage from the events of 9/11 to images of HIV, and from the revolutions of 1989 to cult wines, this book systematically unpacks the tremendous importance of icons in social life. Both a striking contribution to visual sociology, and a powerful manifesto for new directions in cultural sociology, Iconic Power is fascinating reading for everyone interested in the seductive potency of iconography.' - David Inglis, Head of Department, Department of Sociology, University of Aberdeen 13 02 Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University. With Ron Eyerman, he is the Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS). Dominik Maksymilian Bartma n ski is a doctoral student at Yale University in the Sociology Department's Center for Cultural Sociology. Bernhard Giesen is a professor of Sociology and the Chair of the Department of Macrosociology at theUniversität Konstanz in Germany. 04 02 Materiality and Meaning in Social Life: Toward an Iconic Turn in Cultural Sociology; D.Bartmanski  & J.Alexander   PART I  Representation, Presentation, Presence: Tracing the Homo Pictor; G.Boehm  Iconic Power and Performance: the Role of the Critic; J.Alexander   PART II  Inconspicuous Revolutions of 1989. Culture and Contingency in The Making of Political Icons; D.Bartmanski   The Making of Humanitarian Visual Icons. On the 1921-1923 Russian Famine as Foundational Event; F.Kurasawa   Seeing Tragedy in the News Images of September 11; W.Bowler  The Emergence of Iconic Depth. Secular Icons in a Comparative Perspective; W.Binder   PART III  Shifting Extremism: On the Political Iconology in Post-socialist Serbia; D.Šuber  & S.Karamanic   The Visualization of Uncertainty: HIV Statistics in Public Media; V.Rauer  How To Make an Iconic Commodity: The Case of Penfolds' Grange Wine; I.Woodward  & D.Ellison   Becoming Iconic. The Cases of Woodstock and Bayreuth; P.Smith   PART IV  Body and Image; H.Belting Iconic Difference and Seduction; B.Giesen   Iconic Rituals. Towards a Social Theory of Encountering Images; J.Sonnevend   Visible Meanings; P.Sztompka   Afterword; B.Giesen 31 02 The methods and themes taken up in these studies respond to this shift in social scientific interest. Each contribution carefully tests the analytic purchase and empirical implications of iconicity