Presentations | Cultural Distinctions, Generations and Change

2016

Purhonen, Semi, Heikkilä, Riie & Karademir Hazir, Irmak (2016). The Grand Opening?
The Transformation of the Content in European Newspaper Culture Sections, 1960–2010. 111th ASA Annual Meeting, 23.8.2016, Seattle, USA.

Purhonen, Semi & Lauronen, Tina (2016) Between Legitimization and Popularization: The Rise of the U.S. Cultural Products in the Culture Sections of Five European Newspapers, 1960–2010. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, USA, 17–20 March 2016.

Fernandez, Carlos, Heikkilä, Riie & Purhonen, Semi (2016). Uncle Jam wants you: The coverage of music in key newspapers of five European countries (1960-2010). Paper presented at the 28th conference of the Nordic Sociological Association 11.-13. August, Helsinki, Finland.

Heikkilä, Riie, Lauronen, Tina & Purhonen, Semi (2016). The Crisis of Cultural Journalism Revisited. the Place and Space of Culture in Five European Newspapers from 1960 to 2010. Paper presented at the 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology 10.-14. July, Vienna, Austria.

Lauronen, Tina, Heikkilä, Riie & Purhonen, Semi (2016) Cultural Globalization on the Printed Page: Stability and Change in the Proportion of Foreign Cultural Items in Five European Newspapers, 1960–2010. Paper presented at the 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology 10.-14. July, Vienna, Austria.

Purhonen, Semi (2016) Enter Culture, Exit Arts? The Transformation of Cultural Hierarchies in European Newspaper Culture Sections, 1960–2010. An invited presentation at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 30 June 2016.

Heikkilä, Riie (2016) Finnish cultural participation and inequality: tracing the non-participants. Paper presented at the “Doing research on participation” conference, 26.–27. May 2016, Manchester, UK.

Purhonen, Semi (2016) Popularity and Legitimacy: Rethinking the Classical Framework. An invited paper presented at the conference on “Doing Research on Participation”, University of Manchester, UK, 25–27 May 2016.

Heikkilä, Riie (2016) What about the culturally passive? Methodological challenges in exploring reasons and motivations behind cultural disengagement. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, 17 – 20 March, 2016, Boston, USA.

2015

Purhonen, Semi, Heikkilä, Riie, Lauronen, Tina & Gronow, Jukka (2015) The Grand Opening? A Comparative Study of Changes in the Conception and Content of Culture and the Arts in Five European Newspapers, 1960–2010. Paper presented at the conference of European Sociological Association, RN5: Sociology of Consumption (session on Cultural stratification), Prague, Czech Republic, 25-28 August 2015.

Lauronen, Tina, Heikkilä, Riie, Karademir Hazir, Irmak & Purhonen, Semi (2015) Around the World in a Day: The Relation between National and Global Culture and the Arts in Five European Newspapers, 1960–2010. Paper presented at the conference of European Sociological Association, RN2: Sociology of the Arts (session on Arts from a macro-sociological perspective), Prague, Czech Republic, 25-28 August 2015.

Heikkilä, Riie, Fernández Rodríguez, Carlos J. & Purhonen, Semi (2015) Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day: A Case Study of the Transformation of Cultural Content in Spanish Newspapers El País and ABC, 1960–2010. Paper presented at the conference of European Sociological Association, RN7: Sociology of Culture, Prague, Czech Republic, 25-28 August 2015.

Fernandez Rodriguez, Carlos & Heikkilä, Riie & Purhonen, Semi: Las secciones culturales en la prensa de referencia: el caso español. Presentation held at the Coloquio intercongresos del Comité de Investigación de Sociología de la Cultura y de las Artes (FES), Barcelona, Spain, 13 June 2015.

Purhonen, Semi (2015) Cultural Stratification in Finland. An invited presentation at the University of Manchester, workshop on Participation, Taste and Networks, 19 May 2015.

Purhonen, Semi (2015) The Consistency and Inconsistency of Taste Across Cultural Fields: Bourdieu versus Lahire. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Eastern Sociological Society, New York, 26 February-1 March 2015.

Lauronen, Tina (2015) Into the Great Wide Open? A Comparative Study of Cultural Legitimacy and the Arts in British and Finnish Newspapers, 1960-2010. Presentation held at the postgraduate seminar of Social Policy of the University of Helsinki, 11 February 2015.

2014

Heikkilä, Riie: Constructing the cultural pages of newspapers: a look at weekend issues in five European newspapers from 1960 to 2010. Paper presented at the European Sociological Association Consumption Research Network Midterm Conference, O’Porto, Portugal, 4 September 2014.

Purhonen, Semi & Gronow, Jukka & Heikkilä, Riie & Lauronen, Tina: Into the Great Wide Open? A Comparative Study of Cultural Legitimacy and the Arts in British and Finnish Newspapers, 1960-2010. Presentation held at the European Sociological Association Consumption Research Network Midterm Conference, O’Porto, Portugal, 6 September 2014.

Purhonen, Semi & Gronow, Jukka & Heikkilä, Riie & Lauronen, Tina: Into the Great Wide Open? A Comparative Study of Cultural Legitimacy and the Arts in British and Finnish Newspapers, 1960-2010. Presentation held at the 27th Conference of the Nordic Sociological Association – Exploring Blind Spots, Lund, Sweden, 14 August 2014.

Purhonen, Semi (2014) Comment on “Rethinking Social Distinction”. Paper presented at the XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, RC20: Comparative Sociology (Special session on “Rethinking Social Distinction”), Yokohama, Japan, 13-19 July 2014.

Purhonen, Semi & Gronow, Jukka & Heikkilä, Riie & Lauronen, Tina: Into the Great Wide Open? A Comparative Study of Cultural Legitimacy and the Arts in British and Finnish Newspapers, 1960-2010. Paper presented at the XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan, 13-19 July 2014.

Purhonen, Semi (2014) Bourdieu, Lahire ja kysymys maun (epä)johdonmukaisuudesta: vertaileva analyysi Suomesta ja Britanniasta. Esitelmä Westermarck-seuran Sosiologipäivillä Kulttuuri ja kulutus -työryhmässä, Rovaniemi, 27.3.2014.

2013

Gronow, Jukka: Snobs, Omnivores and Individual Taste Patterns. Presentation held at the University of Manchester, CRESC, February 2013.

Purhonen, Semi: Kulttuuridistinktiot, sukupolvet ja vertaileva tutkimus (“Cultural Distinctions, Generations and Comparative Research”). Presentation held at the Spring Seminar of Social Policy Unit at the Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, 30 May 2013.

Purhonen, Semi: The Consistency and Inconsistency of Taste Across Cultural Fields: Finland and the UK Compared. Paper presented at the 11th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Research Network of the Sociology of Consumption, Torino, Italy, 29 August 2013.

Purhonen, Semi & Heikkilä, Riie: Kulttuuridistinktiot, sukupolvet ja muutos: Kulttuurisosiologisen vertailevan tutkimuksen ongelmat ja hankkeen esittely (“Cultural Distinctions, Generations and Change: The Challenges of Cultural Sociological Comparative Research and an Introduction to the New Project”). Presentation held at the Annual Conference of the Westermarck Society, University of Turku, 21 March 2013.