Poetics Aims and Scope
Poetics is an interdisciplinary journal of theoretical and empirical research on culture,
the media and the arts. Particularly welcome are papers that make an original contribution to the major disciplines - psychology, sociology,
and economics - within which promising lines of research ... click here for full Aims & Scope
Poetics Aims and Scope
Poetics is an interdisciplinary journal of theoretical and empirical research on culture,
the media and the arts. Particularly welcome are papers that make an original contribution to the major disciplines - psychology, sociology,
and economics - within which promising lines of research on art and culture have been developed including economic sociology and the
sociology of culture. Poetics publishes not only advanced research reports but also overview articles. Occasional special issues, guest-edited
by specialists, present the state of the art or discuss new developments in a particular field. Included among these special issues are:
Relational analysis and institutional meanings: Formal models for the study of culture (2000), Gender, Networks, and Cultural
Capital (2004) and Music in Society: the Sociological Agenda (2004), and Approaches to material culture: the sociology
of fashion and clothing (2006) and Social status and cultural consumption in seven countries (2007).
Some examples
of types of papers which Poetics would be pleased to consider:
• Psychological research on the processing of cultural
products such as literary texts, films, theatrical performances, visual artworks etc.
• Sociological research on participation
in the arts, media use, the conditions under which makers of cultural products operate, the functioning of institutions which make, distribute
and/or judge cultural products, arts and media policy, etc.
• Economic research on the funding, costs and benefits of commercial
and non-profit organizations in the fields of art and culture, choice behavior of audiences analyzed from the viewpoint of the theory
of lifestyles, and the impact of economic institutions on the production or consumption of cultural goods.
The production and consumption
of media, art and culture are highly complex and interrelated phenomena. Our insight into these broad domains will be considerably enhanced
by studies focusing on the interrelationships of the many factors which shape behavior towards art, culture and the media.
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Editor:
K. van Rees
Recent and Past Special Issues
Mission Statement - 2008
Poetics, Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts, founded in 1971, has moved to become a major international outlet for empirical social-science research on culture in a broad sense. Kees van Rees and Paul DiMaggio, the Editor and Associate Editor as of 1991, have made several changes that underscore a shift in the journal's focus.
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