Claudio E Benzecry
Biographic Data
| ID | 105636 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudio E Benzecry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudio E |
| FAMILY NAME | Benzecry |
| SIGNATURE | BENZECRY C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4774-5344 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 197 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Forged in Heat
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For a Strabismic Sociology
This article, adapted from the 19th Lewis A. Coser lecture delivered in 2024 at the American Sociological Association Meetings, presents three intertwined and sometimes overlapping arguments. First, I examine the limitations of the category "Global South" for studying Latin America. Second, I develop this critique by proposing a perspective distinct from both Northern theory and Global South approaches-what I call a "strabismic" standpoint. Third…
Ethnography's Laborious Crossing
Dream Weavers
Dreams of a Lifetime: How Who We Are Shapes How We Imagine Our Future. Karen Cerulo and Janet M. Ruane. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. Dreams of a Lifetime belongs to a particular shelf, one that holds those books that utilize sociology seriously to best capture the pulse of the United States at a particular juncture in time. In this tradition, one can find treatises about loneliness (Riesman, Slater), disconnection (Putnam, Sen…
I wonder if this is like a saxophone
How do you know? Seven theses on qualitative sociology as theory and method
In its seven theses, this article discusses: (a) how different qualitative sociology is from other approaches; (b) the role of 'casing' in generating both units of analysis and settings; (c) the theoretical and empirical work of adjudicating what some emergent phenomena is a case of; (d) the 'modelization' through writing of our case as a research object; (e) the rhetorical construction of causality and the central role of 'puzzles' on it; (f) th…
The Perfect Fit
Perfect Fit
Where’s the Global
Symposium
Archival Work as Qualitative Sociology
Bourdieu in Question
Habitus and Beyond
Chapter abstract Pierre Bourdieu coined the concept of habitus to capture the connection between embodiment, cognition, processes of singularization and temporalization, and the collective. This chapter discusses the aporias that result from this semantic ambition. It starts with a presentation of the many uses of habitus in Bourdieu’s own work; what follows is how the concept has been deployed in research by US sociologists; the third and main s…
Meaning in Action
Ceci n’est pas un événement
How do we study the social not as something outside of us that is fixed eternal but rather as contingent, conjectural, and yet patterned and patterning? And if we take this seriously, how do we und
What is political about political ethnography? On the context of discovery and the normalization of an emergent subfield
Social Theory Now
Sociology in Argentina
We want to extend the published genealogical foray into a history of Argentinean sociology into the present. In the first section of this essay, we show the imprinting power of Germanis scholarship over the first two generations of Argentinean sociologists. In the second section, we provide an overview of the successive generations that have restructured the local field, as well as some current main topics of research, and of how contemporary app…
What did we say they've said? Four encounters between theory, method and the production of data
Following Reed (2010 , 2011) , we can think of ethnography as the encounter between two sets of meanings: those of the ethnographer on those of the subjects whose lives are being studied. If we are able to recognize the contested, unfinished, reflexive and complex character of how people think about themselves, we should be able to imagine ourselves in the same terms and go into the field armed with a theoretical helmet with interchangeable lense…
The Practical Logic of Political Domination
This article aims to redirect the study of patronage politics toward its quotidian character and acknowledge the key role played by brokers' strong ties with their closest followers to better understand and explain the practical features of clientelist domination. This article argues that clientelist politics occur during routine daily life and that most loyal clients' behavior should be understood and explained neither as the product of rational…
La lógica práctica del dominio clientelista
On the bases of a series of analytical exams of three rounds of ethnographic field-work in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and with a micro-sociological approach of empirical analysis, this article sets out to reorient the study of clienteles’ politics towards its every day nature, and recognize the relevant role played by the close links mediating agents keep with their closest and most reliable followers- Thus it aims to contribute to better understan…
José Emilio Burucúa
Claudio E. Benzecry talks with José Emilio Burucúa about how perspective in South American art differed from European models; the role of images in historiographical analysis; how the myth of Ulysses has been represented throughout history; and how European modernity can be studied from Buenos Aires
Restabilizing attachment to cultural objects. Aesthetics, emotions and biography
The scholarship on aesthetics and materiality has studied how objects help shape identity, social action and subjectivity. Objects, as 'equipment[s] for living' (Luhmann 2000), become the 'obligatory passage points humans have to contend with in order to pursue their projects (Latour 1991). They provide patterns to which bodies can unconsciously latch onto, or help human agents work towards particular states of being (DeNora 2000, 2003). Objects …
The Path Not Taken? Culture, Materials, and Pleasure in Action
The Sociology of Wind Bands
The High of Cultural Experience
Does the experience of cultural consumption have its own sui generis attraction and value in itself, or is it an index of external social ranking? Four criteria are proposed that are observable in microsociological detail: (1) bodily self-absorption in the cultural experience, creating an intense internal interaction ritual; (2) collective effervescence among the audience; (3) Goffmanian front-stage self-presentation in settings of cultural consu…
Becoming a Fan
The Practical Logic of Political Domination
This article aims to redirect the study of patronage politics toward its quotidian character and acknowledge the key role played by brokers' strong ties with their closest followers to better understand and explain the practical features of clientelist domination. This article argues that clientelist politics occur during routine daily life and that most loyal clients' behavior should be understood and explained neither as the product of rational…
Azul y Oro
This article focuses on a key incident - the takeover of the CA Boca Juniors of Argentina football jersey by Nike, with a design that was perceived as altering the 'original' jersey -and the public debate it generated in terms of fashion, community and tradition. Using that incident as a catalyst I analyze its different circuits of fabrication, production and consumption, and show how the circuits of uses of the jersey go from gift to commodity t…
Archival Work as Qualitative Sociology
What is political about political ethnography? On the context of discovery and the normalization of an emergent subfield
Restabilizing attachment to cultural objects. Aesthetics, emotions and biography
The scholarship on aesthetics and materiality has studied how objects help shape identity, social action and subjectivity. Objects, as 'equipment[s] for living' (Luhmann 2000), become the 'obligatory passage points humans have to contend with in order to pursue their projects (Latour 1991). They provide patterns to which bodies can unconsciously latch onto, or help human agents work towards particular states of being (DeNora 2000, 2003). Objects …
How Do they Know? Practicing Knowledge in Comparative Perspective
What did we say they've said? Four encounters between theory, method and the production of data
Following Reed (2010 , 2011) , we can think of ethnography as the encounter between two sets of meanings: those of the ethnographer on those of the subjects whose lives are being studied. If we are able to recognize the contested, unfinished, reflexive and complex character of how people think about themselves, we should be able to imagine ourselves in the same terms and go into the field armed with a theoretical helmet with interchangeable lense…
An opera house for the 'Paris of South America
Curtain rising, baton falling
Cultural Production in a Digital Age
Preface: Cultural Production in a Digital Age - Eric Klinenberg and Claudio Benzecry Global Networks and the Effects on Culture - Alexander R. Galloway Multiple Media, Convergent Processes, and Divergent Products: Organizational Innovation in Digital Media Production at a European Firm - Pablo J. Boczkowski Boczkowski and Jose A. Ferris Convergence: News Production in a Digital Age - Eric Klinenberg Digital Gambling: The Coincidence of Desire and…
Sociology in Argentina
We want to extend the published genealogical foray into a history of Argentinean sociology into the present. In the first section of this essay, we show the imprinting power of Germanis scholarship over the first two generations of Argentinean sociologists. In the second section, we provide an overview of the successive generations that have restructured the local field, as well as some current main topics of research, and of how contemporary app…
La lógica práctica del dominio clientelista
On the bases of a series of analytical exams of three rounds of ethnographic field-work in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and with a micro-sociological approach of empirical analysis, this article sets out to reorient the study of clienteles’ politics towards its every day nature, and recognize the relevant role played by the close links mediating agents keep with their closest and most reliable followers- Thus it aims to contribute to better understan…
Workers of the World, Enjoy
With a little help from my friends
This article presents an ethnography and analysis of the formations in which the latest Argentine literary ideas and intellectuals are shaped. In trying to understand the end, during the 1990s, of the polemic as the main mechanism of self-regulation in the field of literature, I focus on two questions: (1) How did a 'new' intellectual generation both reproduce and transform itself during those years? (2) What processes did the writers involved us…
Beatriz Sarlo and Theories of Popular Culture
How do you know? Seven theses on qualitative sociology as theory and method
In its seven theses, this article discusses: (a) how different qualitative sociology is from other approaches; (b) the role of 'casing' in generating both units of analysis and settings; (c) the theoretical and empirical work of adjudicating what some emergent phenomena is a case of; (d) the 'modelization' through writing of our case as a research object; (e) the rhetorical construction of causality and the central role of 'puzzles' on it; (f) th…
Social Theory Now
Ethnography's Laborious Crossing
Symposium
Beatriz Sarlo and Theories of Popular Culture
Cultural Production in a Digital Age
Preface: Cultural Production in a Digital Age - Eric Klinenberg and Claudio Benzecry Global Networks and the Effects on Culture - Alexander R. Galloway Multiple Media, Convergent Processes, and Divergent Products: Organizational Innovation in Digital Media Production at a European Firm - Pablo J. Boczkowski Boczkowski and Jose A. Ferris Convergence: News Production in a Digital Age - Eric Klinenberg Digital Gambling: The Coincidence of Desire and…
With a little help from my friends
This article presents an ethnography and analysis of the formations in which the latest Argentine literary ideas and intellectuals are shaped. In trying to understand the end, during the 1990s, of the polemic as the main mechanism of self-regulation in the field of literature, I focus on two questions: (1) How did a 'new' intellectual generation both reproduce and transform itself during those years? (2) What processes did the writers involved us…
Curtain rising, baton falling
Azul y Oro
This article focuses on a key incident - the takeover of the CA Boca Juniors of Argentina football jersey by Nike, with a design that was perceived as altering the 'original' jersey -and the public debate it generated in terms of fashion, community and tradition. Using that incident as a catalyst I analyze its different circuits of fabrication, production and consumption, and show how the circuits of uses of the jersey go from gift to commodity t…
Becoming a Fan
How Do they Know? Practicing Knowledge in Comparative Perspective
The Opera Fanatic
A Sociology of Exposure and Denial
The opera fanatic
Though some dismiss opera as old-fashioned, it shows no sign of disappearing from the world's stage. So why do audiences continue to flock to it? Opera lovers are an intense lot, Benzecry discovers in his look at the fanatics who haunt the legendary Colón Opera House in Buenos Aires
Workers of the World, Enjoy
Troubling Gender
Patients of the State
The High of Cultural Experience
Does the experience of cultural consumption have its own sui generis attraction and value in itself, or is it an index of external social ranking? Four criteria are proposed that are observable in microsociological detail: (1) bodily self-absorption in the cultural experience, creating an intense internal interaction ritual; (2) collective effervescence among the audience; (3) Goffmanian front-stage self-presentation in settings of cultural consu…
An opera house for the 'Paris of South America
Restabilizing attachment to cultural objects. Aesthetics, emotions and biography
The scholarship on aesthetics and materiality has studied how objects help shape identity, social action and subjectivity. Objects, as 'equipment[s] for living' (Luhmann 2000), become the 'obligatory passage points humans have to contend with in order to pursue their projects (Latour 1991). They provide patterns to which bodies can unconsciously latch onto, or help human agents work towards particular states of being (DeNora 2000, 2003). Objects …
The Path Not Taken? Culture, Materials, and Pleasure in Action
The Sociology of Wind Bands
La lógica práctica del dominio clientelista
On the bases of a series of analytical exams of three rounds of ethnographic field-work in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and with a micro-sociological approach of empirical analysis, this article sets out to reorient the study of clienteles’ politics towards its every day nature, and recognize the relevant role played by the close links mediating agents keep with their closest and most reliable followers- Thus it aims to contribute to better understan…
José Emilio Burucúa
Claudio E. Benzecry talks with José Emilio Burucúa about how perspective in South American art differed from European models; the role of images in historiographical analysis; how the myth of Ulysses has been represented throughout history; and how European modernity can be studied from Buenos Aires
Ceci n’est pas un événement
How do we study the social not as something outside of us that is fixed eternal but rather as contingent, conjectural, and yet patterned and patterning? And if we take this seriously, how do we und
What is political about political ethnography? On the context of discovery and the normalization of an emergent subfield
Social Theory Now
Sociology in Argentina
We want to extend the published genealogical foray into a history of Argentinean sociology into the present. In the first section of this essay, we show the imprinting power of Germanis scholarship over the first two generations of Argentinean sociologists. In the second section, we provide an overview of the successive generations that have restructured the local field, as well as some current main topics of research, and of how contemporary app…
What did we say they've said? Four encounters between theory, method and the production of data
Following Reed (2010 , 2011) , we can think of ethnography as the encounter between two sets of meanings: those of the ethnographer on those of the subjects whose lives are being studied. If we are able to recognize the contested, unfinished, reflexive and complex character of how people think about themselves, we should be able to imagine ourselves in the same terms and go into the field armed with a theoretical helmet with interchangeable lense…
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