Marco Santoro
Biographic Data
| ID | 123945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marco Santoro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marco |
| FAMILY NAME | Santoro |
| SIGNATURE | SANTORO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2277-953X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Les mandarins et la horde bibliométrique
L’article présente les équilibres, oppositions et conflits des dernières décennies qui ont contribué à la réorganisation institutionnelle de la sociologie italienne, ainsi qu’à l’évolution de ses pratiques de recrutement, d’évaluation et d’avancement. Ces changements sont toujours en cours et leurs partisans et opposants continuent à s’affronter ; notre texte est donc aussi un peu l’histoire d’un combat qui fait encore rage. Dans une première par…
Sketch for a Sociology of Sociological Self-Analyses
This essay analyzes one of the major expressions of the sociological critique of sociological reasoning, the objectivation of the subject of objectivation, who should analyze the sociohistorical conditions of possibility of the very act of objectivation. Though Bourdieu's invitation to a reflexive sociology of sociology has not been widely accepted and put into practice, the authors argue that its actual application actually brings about consiste…
Is there a canon in this class
The article addresses issues of interpretation and selection as they are dealt with in current debates on the nature, the content, and the effects of processes and mechanisms of canonization in sociology. It makes a case for a more empirically grounded and sociologically sensitive approach to these issues, drawing from recent research programmes in digital humanities (e.g. distant reading) and insisting on the benefits of cumulative case historie…
Ideas on the Move in the Social Sciences and Humanities
The Acquisition of English Anaphoric Expressions by Adult Chinese Speakers
Mafiacraft, witchcraft, statecraft, or the politics of mafia knowledge and the knowledge of mafia politics
While praising Deborah Puccio-Den's proposal for its invitation to a more reflexive kind of mafia studies, capable of addressing epistemological and even ontological issues typically assumed but rarely dealt with in the literature, I suggest developing her "mafiacraft" framework along two research lines: (1) a focus on the "craft" dimension of the "mafia" and of mafiosi as engaged in work activities and embedded in (even) a (moral) division of la…
Bourdieu’s International Circulation
An influential figure in the French intellectual field since the 1960s, Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) is increasingly influential also—and probably mainly—on a global scale. In fact, the circulation of Bourdieu’s ideas and concepts outside of France greatly exceeds their transatlantic importation, both temporally and spatially. His works circulated in different parts of “old Europe” well before their renown in the United States, especially in count…
Putting Circuits Into Fields, or How Italian Canzone Gained the Status of ‘Art’ in the Music Market
This article shows how deep moral issues can impinge upon popular culture without this losing its commercial appeal, a process made possible by the role of consecrating institutions in the music market. The article focuses on the fabrication and establishment of a new genre within Italian musical culture and music market, the so-called canzone d'autore, and it is set after the suicide in 1967 of singer-songwriter Luigi Tenco during the most impor…
Per (ri)valutare la sociologia, in Italia
L'articolo avanza una diagnosi dello stato della sociologia accademica italiana e discute le potenzialità di innovazione scientifica e professionale del sistema di valutazione della ricerca introdotto recentemente in Italia
From Bourdieu to Cultural Sociology
This paper offers an account of Bourdieu's rise to sociological 'stardom' in the last 30 years, giving special attention to the transnational dimensions of this process. It discusses the scope and relevance of his work to the field (in the making) of cultural sociology, showing how he contributed to its current form. It also presents the articles which constitute the contents of the journal special issue. The paper insists on the importance of as…
Constructing an artistic field as a political project
Backstage at the Revolution
An Interview with Paul Willis
An Interview with one of the founders of British Cultural Studies, introduced by a text which contextualizes both the interview and the author (and British Cultural Studies). The issues discussed are the three in the title: commodification, symbolic resistance and cultural reproduction. But also creativity and methological issues in the analysis of culture
Producing Cultural Sociology
The name of Richard A. Peterson is associated with at least two major issues in the field of sociology: first, the production of culture approach to cultural analysis, probably still his most relevant contribution to contemporary sociology; and second, the cultural omnivore hypothesis, which currently is a central theme in empirical research on cultural consumption and stratification. Both these issues (and the first in particular) are discussed …
Culture As (And After) Production
This paper discusses the contribution of Richard A. Peterson to the discipline of sociology in general, and the sociological study of cultural production and consumption more particularly. It illustrate the main tenets of the 'production of culture' perspective proposed by Peterson from the early 1970s onwards, its intellectual genealogy, and the impact this perspective has had on the development of the sociology of culture in different countries…
The Italian Way(s). A special issue on Italian popular music
Popular music studies have experienced a strange fate in Italy. After a promising beginning in the 1970s and the early 1980s (with the direct contribution by musicians and scholars like Franco Fabbri and Umberto Fiori to the new intellectual formation), a situation of stasis followed. The latter was characterised by the presence of individual important voices but without the support of a constituency strong enough to guarantee in Italy the instit…
Second language acquisition of Italian accusative and dative clitics
This experimental study investigates the acquisition of Italian accusative and dative clitics by English adult speakers. These pronouns are non-existent in English. Results from a grammaticality judgement task show that Italian accusative and dative clitics develop slowly but gradually in Italian second language (L2) grammars. Interestingly, the placement properties appear to develop earlier than their case properties. The possible implications o…
Authors and Rappers
By offering a historical reconstruction of the process of contextualisation of hip hop culture in Italy over the last fifteen years, the article assesses the current status of canzone d'autore and its changing configuration under the impact of rap music. From a theoretical point of view, the conceptual framework combines the sociological definition of 'field of cultural production' elaborated by Pierre Bourdieu with the related literature on soci…
Musical identity and social change in Italy
The Tenco effect. Suicide, San Remo, and the social construction of the canzone d'autore
Canzone d'autore is an indigenous expression that has no precise equivalent in other languages. Its social use identifies a genre of popular song that presuppose the existence of an ‘autore’ taken in its most vigorous sense, meaning a ‘creator’, an ‘artist’– but how did this claim to artistry originate? How did it insinuate itself into the world of song, a genre that by definition belongs to the realm of what is traditionally called in Italian ‘m…
What is a "cantautore?" Distinction and authorship in Italian (popular) music
Storia del libro italiano
Il libro a stampa. I primordi
Un secolo per il libro. Atti del Convegno per il Centenario della Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki
La stampa a Napoli nel Quattrocento
What is a "cantautore?" Distinction and authorship in Italian (popular) music
Constructing an artistic field as a political project
Culture As (And After) Production
This paper discusses the contribution of Richard A. Peterson to the discipline of sociology in general, and the sociological study of cultural production and consumption more particularly. It illustrate the main tenets of the 'production of culture' perspective proposed by Peterson from the early 1970s onwards, its intellectual genealogy, and the impact this perspective has had on the development of the sociology of culture in different countries…
From Bourdieu to Cultural Sociology
This paper offers an account of Bourdieu's rise to sociological 'stardom' in the last 30 years, giving special attention to the transnational dimensions of this process. It discusses the scope and relevance of his work to the field (in the making) of cultural sociology, showing how he contributed to its current form. It also presents the articles which constitute the contents of the journal special issue. The paper insists on the importance of as…
Authors and Rappers
By offering a historical reconstruction of the process of contextualisation of hip hop culture in Italy over the last fifteen years, the article assesses the current status of canzone d'autore and its changing configuration under the impact of rap music. From a theoretical point of view, the conceptual framework combines the sociological definition of 'field of cultural production' elaborated by Pierre Bourdieu with the related literature on soci…
Is there a canon in this class
The article addresses issues of interpretation and selection as they are dealt with in current debates on the nature, the content, and the effects of processes and mechanisms of canonization in sociology. It makes a case for a more empirically grounded and sociologically sensitive approach to these issues, drawing from recent research programmes in digital humanities (e.g. distant reading) and insisting on the benefits of cumulative case historie…
Producing Cultural Sociology
The name of Richard A. Peterson is associated with at least two major issues in the field of sociology: first, the production of culture approach to cultural analysis, probably still his most relevant contribution to contemporary sociology; and second, the cultural omnivore hypothesis, which currently is a central theme in empirical research on cultural consumption and stratification. Both these issues (and the first in particular) are discussed …
Putting Circuits Into Fields, or How Italian Canzone Gained the Status of ‘Art’ in the Music Market
This article shows how deep moral issues can impinge upon popular culture without this losing its commercial appeal, a process made possible by the role of consecrating institutions in the music market. The article focuses on the fabrication and establishment of a new genre within Italian musical culture and music market, the so-called canzone d'autore, and it is set after the suicide in 1967 of singer-songwriter Luigi Tenco during the most impor…
An Interview with Paul Willis
An Interview with one of the founders of British Cultural Studies, introduced by a text which contextualizes both the interview and the author (and British Cultural Studies). The issues discussed are the three in the title: commodification, symbolic resistance and cultural reproduction. But also creativity and methological issues in the analysis of culture
The Tenco effect. Suicide, San Remo, and the social construction of the canzone d'autore
Canzone d'autore is an indigenous expression that has no precise equivalent in other languages. Its social use identifies a genre of popular song that presuppose the existence of an ‘autore’ taken in its most vigorous sense, meaning a ‘creator’, an ‘artist’– but how did this claim to artistry originate? How did it insinuate itself into the world of song, a genre that by definition belongs to the realm of what is traditionally called in Italian ‘m…
Second language acquisition of Italian accusative and dative clitics
This experimental study investigates the acquisition of Italian accusative and dative clitics by English adult speakers. These pronouns are non-existent in English. Results from a grammaticality judgement task show that Italian accusative and dative clitics develop slowly but gradually in Italian second language (L2) grammars. Interestingly, the placement properties appear to develop earlier than their case properties. The possible implications o…
Mafiacraft, witchcraft, statecraft, or the politics of mafia knowledge and the knowledge of mafia politics
While praising Deborah Puccio-Den's proposal for its invitation to a more reflexive kind of mafia studies, capable of addressing epistemological and even ontological issues typically assumed but rarely dealt with in the literature, I suggest developing her "mafiacraft" framework along two research lines: (1) a focus on the "craft" dimension of the "mafia" and of mafiosi as engaged in work activities and embedded in (even) a (moral) division of la…
Guicciardini Nel Quinto Centenario Della Nascita
La stampa a Napoli nel Quattrocento
Il libro a stampa. I primordi
Un secolo per il libro. Atti del Convegno per il Centenario della Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki
Storia del libro italiano
What is a "cantautore?" Distinction and authorship in Italian (popular) music
Musical identity and social change in Italy
The Tenco effect. Suicide, San Remo, and the social construction of the canzone d'autore
Canzone d'autore is an indigenous expression that has no precise equivalent in other languages. Its social use identifies a genre of popular song that presuppose the existence of an ‘autore’ taken in its most vigorous sense, meaning a ‘creator’, an ‘artist’– but how did this claim to artistry originate? How did it insinuate itself into the world of song, a genre that by definition belongs to the realm of what is traditionally called in Italian ‘m…
The Italian Way(s). A special issue on Italian popular music
Popular music studies have experienced a strange fate in Italy. After a promising beginning in the 1970s and the early 1980s (with the direct contribution by musicians and scholars like Franco Fabbri and Umberto Fiori to the new intellectual formation), a situation of stasis followed. The latter was characterised by the presence of individual important voices but without the support of a constituency strong enough to guarantee in Italy the instit…
Second language acquisition of Italian accusative and dative clitics
This experimental study investigates the acquisition of Italian accusative and dative clitics by English adult speakers. These pronouns are non-existent in English. Results from a grammaticality judgement task show that Italian accusative and dative clitics develop slowly but gradually in Italian second language (L2) grammars. Interestingly, the placement properties appear to develop earlier than their case properties. The possible implications o…
Authors and Rappers
By offering a historical reconstruction of the process of contextualisation of hip hop culture in Italy over the last fifteen years, the article assesses the current status of canzone d'autore and its changing configuration under the impact of rap music. From a theoretical point of view, the conceptual framework combines the sociological definition of 'field of cultural production' elaborated by Pierre Bourdieu with the related literature on soci…
Producing Cultural Sociology
The name of Richard A. Peterson is associated with at least two major issues in the field of sociology: first, the production of culture approach to cultural analysis, probably still his most relevant contribution to contemporary sociology; and second, the cultural omnivore hypothesis, which currently is a central theme in empirical research on cultural consumption and stratification. Both these issues (and the first in particular) are discussed …
Culture As (And After) Production
This paper discusses the contribution of Richard A. Peterson to the discipline of sociology in general, and the sociological study of cultural production and consumption more particularly. It illustrate the main tenets of the 'production of culture' perspective proposed by Peterson from the early 1970s onwards, its intellectual genealogy, and the impact this perspective has had on the development of the sociology of culture in different countries…
An Interview with Paul Willis
An Interview with one of the founders of British Cultural Studies, introduced by a text which contextualizes both the interview and the author (and British Cultural Studies). The issues discussed are the three in the title: commodification, symbolic resistance and cultural reproduction. But also creativity and methological issues in the analysis of culture
Constructing an artistic field as a political project
Backstage at the Revolution
From Bourdieu to Cultural Sociology
This paper offers an account of Bourdieu's rise to sociological 'stardom' in the last 30 years, giving special attention to the transnational dimensions of this process. It discusses the scope and relevance of his work to the field (in the making) of cultural sociology, showing how he contributed to its current form. It also presents the articles which constitute the contents of the journal special issue. The paper insists on the importance of as…
Putting Circuits Into Fields, or How Italian Canzone Gained the Status of ‘Art’ in the Music Market
This article shows how deep moral issues can impinge upon popular culture without this losing its commercial appeal, a process made possible by the role of consecrating institutions in the music market. The article focuses on the fabrication and establishment of a new genre within Italian musical culture and music market, the so-called canzone d'autore, and it is set after the suicide in 1967 of singer-songwriter Luigi Tenco during the most impor…
Per (ri)valutare la sociologia, in Italia
L'articolo avanza una diagnosi dello stato della sociologia accademica italiana e discute le potenzialità di innovazione scientifica e professionale del sistema di valutazione della ricerca introdotto recentemente in Italia
Bourdieu’s International Circulation
An influential figure in the French intellectual field since the 1960s, Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) is increasingly influential also—and probably mainly—on a global scale. In fact, the circulation of Bourdieu’s ideas and concepts outside of France greatly exceeds their transatlantic importation, both temporally and spatially. His works circulated in different parts of “old Europe” well before their renown in the United States, especially in count…
Mafiacraft, witchcraft, statecraft, or the politics of mafia knowledge and the knowledge of mafia politics
While praising Deborah Puccio-Den's proposal for its invitation to a more reflexive kind of mafia studies, capable of addressing epistemological and even ontological issues typically assumed but rarely dealt with in the literature, I suggest developing her "mafiacraft" framework along two research lines: (1) a focus on the "craft" dimension of the "mafia" and of mafiosi as engaged in work activities and embedded in (even) a (moral) division of la…
Ideas on the Move in the Social Sciences and Humanities
The Acquisition of English Anaphoric Expressions by Adult Chinese Speakers
Is there a canon in this class
The article addresses issues of interpretation and selection as they are dealt with in current debates on the nature, the content, and the effects of processes and mechanisms of canonization in sociology. It makes a case for a more empirically grounded and sociologically sensitive approach to these issues, drawing from recent research programmes in digital humanities (e.g. distant reading) and insisting on the benefits of cumulative case historie…
Les mandarins et la horde bibliométrique
L’article présente les équilibres, oppositions et conflits des dernières décennies qui ont contribué à la réorganisation institutionnelle de la sociologie italienne, ainsi qu’à l’évolution de ses pratiques de recrutement, d’évaluation et d’avancement. Ces changements sont toujours en cours et leurs partisans et opposants continuent à s’affronter ; notre texte est donc aussi un peu l’histoire d’un combat qui fait encore rage. Dans une première par…
Sociology (15 works) · Art (13 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Music History and Culture (9 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (9 works) · Social science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Humanities (7 works)