V D Alexander
Biographic Data
| ID | 20952 |
|---|---|
| NAME | V D Alexander |
| GIVEN NAMES | V D |
| FAMILY NAME | Alexander |
| SIGNATURE | ALEXANDER V D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Surrey |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1466-3289 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 191 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Contradictory aims: How state flagship institutions undermine equity in undergraduate admissions
The Reed typology: Understanding market-orientation and instrumental values in cultural policy across Europe
This article develops a typology of cultural policy in 30 European nation-states, based on the centrality of “neoliberal” market-based rationalities in subsidised cultural fields. This Resistant, Emergent, Established, and Dominant (REED) typology is based on two measures of marketisation, market-orientation and instrumental values, which are found in European “cultural policy assemblages” (networked systems of cultural policies, cultural policym…
Contestation in aesthetic fields: Legitimation and legitimacy struggles in outsider art
Enterprise Culture and the Arts: Neoliberal Values and British Art Institutions
Digital traces of distinction? Popular orientation and user-engagement with status hierarchies in TripAdvisor reviews of cultural organizations
Cultural organizations are categorized by cultural products (high or popular culture) and by organizational form (nonprofit or commercial). In sociology, these classifications are understood predominantly through a Bourdieusian lens, which links cultural consumption to habitus and a class-based struggle for distinction. However, people’s engagement with institutionalized cultural classifications may be expressed differently on the Internet, where…
Heteronomy in the arts field: State funding andBritish arts organizations
For Bourdieu, the field of cultural production is comprised of an autonomous and a heteronomous sector. A heteronomous sector is one that is interpenetrated by the commercial field. I discuss an arena that, until recently, was part of the relatively autonomous sector in the field of cultural production - the supported arts sector in the United Kingdom - and argue that it became more heteronomous,due to the penetration by the state. Heteronomy due…
Scandal and the Work of Art: The Nude in an Aesthetically Inflected Sociology of the Arts
American sociologists working in the production perspective have produced a rich body of work on systems of aesthetic-cultural production, distribution, and consumption, but they have paid relatively little attention to the work of art. Aligning with new sociological work that takes the work of art seriously, this article contributes to an aesthetically inflected sociology of the arts: research that includes the work of art as an integral part of…
A brave look at disadvantage, black youth, and culture: Patterson and Fosse's The Cultural Matrix
This article provides a review of The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth, edited by Orlando Patterson with Ethan Fosse (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-674-72875-2, cloth, £33.95). In the collection, Patterson and Fosse bring together theoretical and empirical work that focuses on culture and disadvantage in the African-American community. This book is important. It is packed with fresh insights and e…
Markets: Artistic and Cultural
Art at the crossroads: The arts in society and the sociology of art
Art and the Twenty-First Century Gift: Corporate Philanthropy and Government Funding in the Cultural Sector
Marcel Mauss's work on the archaic gift contributes to understandings of corporate and government support of arts organisations, or ‘institutional funding’. His approach allows us to see institutional funding as a gift that is embedded in a system of exchange wherein gifts come with a variety of obligations, and self-interest and disinterestedness are inseparable. The institutional gift operates through money and contracts; nevertheless, it entai…
Views of the Neighbourhood: A Photo-Elicitation Study of the Built Environment
Drawing on a participant-centred, photo-elicitation study of the built environment in three neighbourhoods, I discuss how people see their neighbourhoods, both in the visual and aesthetic sense, and also how they view (metaphorically) their local surroundings. Participants took part in photo-elicitation interviews and, previously, in standard (verbal-only) semi-structured interviews. Results suggest that people care about their neighbourhoods and…
Cultural Organizations and the State: Art and State Support in Contemporary Britain
Only a small proportion of research in the sociological field of arts and culture is on the state and its effects. Literature which touches on this topic often comes from the policy arena and the wide variety of disciplines interested in public policy. Research tends to focus on two key themes: funding and censorship. But the effects of state actions are much broader. Moreover, state support is often set in opposition to the market, but markets a…
State Support of Artists: The Case of the United Kingdom in a New Labour Environment and Beyond
This article discusses state support of artists in the United Kingdom, focusing on the Arts Council England. To understand the present—or the future—support of visual artists, one needs to understand the past. Accordingly, the article begins with a brief history of the Arts Council of Great Britain from 1946, discussing Thatcher's reforms after the 1979 election. Tony Blair's New Labour continued many of the same strategies instituted by the Cons…
Triangulation and integration: Processes, Claims and Implications
Researchers who advocate the use of multiple methods often write interchangeably about 'integrating', 'combining' and 'mixing' methods, sometimes eliding these descriptors with 'triangulation', which itself encompasses several meanings. In this article we argue that such an elision is problematic since it obscures the difference between (a) the processes by which methods (or data) are brought into relationship with each other (combined, integrate…
Art and the State: The Visual Arts in Comparative Perspective
This book examines the impact of states and their policies on visual art. States shape the role of art and artists in society, influence the development of audiences, support artistic work, and even a
Doing Visual Ethnography Images, Media and Representation in Research
Museums and Money: The Impact of Funding on Exhibitions, Scholarship, and Management
Recent controversies over politically sensitive or allegedly pornographic museum exhibitions have called attention to the sources of funding, public and private, of museums and other cultural organizations.Should funders have a say in what gets exhibited by a museum?Would this constitute censorship or merely be a reasonable restraint over the way public or corporate funds are used?While funding for the arts was shifting from individuals to instit…
Exhibiting Contradiction: Essays on the Art Museum in the United States
Journal Article Exhibiting Contradiction: Essays on the Art Museum in the United States. By Alan Wallach. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. xiv, 152 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 1-55849-117-1. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 1-55849-118-X.) Get access Victoria Alexander Victoria Alexander University of Surrey, Guildford, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue …
From philanthropy to funding: The effects of corporate and public support on American art museums
Pictures at an Exhibition: Conflicting Pressures in Museums and the Display of Art
Organizations face pressures from their environments. When external pressures conflict with each other or with internal desires, organizational personnel face dilemmas. This article examines conflicting pressures in a setting where they are particularly salient: art museums. Various stakeholders, notably external funders and museum curators, press for specific organizational outpus-that is, particular types of exhibitions. This research examines …
Paying the Piper: Causes and Consequences of Art Patronage
essays in this collection discuss the conscious sponsorship of the creation, production, preservation, and dissemination of the fine arts; that is, arts patronage (p. 1). In particular, the analytical focus of this skillfully edited volume is on the varieties and consequences of various patronage structures. result is a veritable tour d'horizon of the social, economic, and historical dimensions of this interesting subject: from The Social Basis o…
Public Television for Sale: Media, the Market, and the Public Sphere
Public television - the historical and political context the political economy of mass media early visions of public television the content of public television - a case study of the MacNeil/Leyrer News Hour funding and the politics of programming audiences, markets and the public goal ambiguity and organizational survival democracy and the future of public television
Cultural Reproduction
Token Achievement: An Examination of Proportional Representation and Performance Outcomes
Journal Article Token Achievement: An Examination of Proportional Representation and Performance Outcomes Get access Victoria D. Alexander, Victoria D. Alexander Stanford University Address correspondence to Victoria D. Alexander, Department of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, or to Peggy A. Thoits, Department of Sociology, Green Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
Triangulation and integration: Processes, Claims and Implications
Researchers who advocate the use of multiple methods often write interchangeably about 'integrating', 'combining' and 'mixing' methods, sometimes eliding these descriptors with 'triangulation', which itself encompasses several meanings. In this article we argue that such an elision is problematic since it obscures the difference between (a) the processes by which methods (or data) are brought into relationship with each other (combined, integrate…
Pictures at an Exhibition: Conflicting Pressures in Museums and the Display of Art
Organizations face pressures from their environments. When external pressures conflict with each other or with internal desires, organizational personnel face dilemmas. This article examines conflicting pressures in a setting where they are particularly salient: art museums. Various stakeholders, notably external funders and museum curators, press for specific organizational outpus-that is, particular types of exhibitions. This research examines …
Heteronomy in the arts field: State funding andBritish arts organizations
For Bourdieu, the field of cultural production is comprised of an autonomous and a heteronomous sector. A heteronomous sector is one that is interpenetrated by the commercial field. I discuss an arena that, until recently, was part of the relatively autonomous sector in the field of cultural production - the supported arts sector in the United Kingdom - and argue that it became more heteronomous,due to the penetration by the state. Heteronomy due…
Art at the crossroads: The arts in society and the sociology of art
From philanthropy to funding: The effects of corporate and public support on American art museums
Scandal and the Work of Art: The Nude in an Aesthetically Inflected Sociology of the Arts
American sociologists working in the production perspective have produced a rich body of work on systems of aesthetic-cultural production, distribution, and consumption, but they have paid relatively little attention to the work of art. Aligning with new sociological work that takes the work of art seriously, this article contributes to an aesthetically inflected sociology of the arts: research that includes the work of art as an integral part of…
Digital traces of distinction? Popular orientation and user-engagement with status hierarchies in TripAdvisor reviews of cultural organizations
Cultural organizations are categorized by cultural products (high or popular culture) and by organizational form (nonprofit or commercial). In sociology, these classifications are understood predominantly through a Bourdieusian lens, which links cultural consumption to habitus and a class-based struggle for distinction. However, people’s engagement with institutionalized cultural classifications may be expressed differently on the Internet, where…
Art and the Twenty-First Century Gift: Corporate Philanthropy and Government Funding in the Cultural Sector
Marcel Mauss's work on the archaic gift contributes to understandings of corporate and government support of arts organisations, or ‘institutional funding’. His approach allows us to see institutional funding as a gift that is embedded in a system of exchange wherein gifts come with a variety of obligations, and self-interest and disinterestedness are inseparable. The institutional gift operates through money and contracts; nevertheless, it entai…
Views of the Neighbourhood: A Photo-Elicitation Study of the Built Environment
Drawing on a participant-centred, photo-elicitation study of the built environment in three neighbourhoods, I discuss how people see their neighbourhoods, both in the visual and aesthetic sense, and also how they view (metaphorically) their local surroundings. Participants took part in photo-elicitation interviews and, previously, in standard (verbal-only) semi-structured interviews. Results suggest that people care about their neighbourhoods and…
Contestation in aesthetic fields: Legitimation and legitimacy struggles in outsider art
Cultural Organizations and the State: Art and State Support in Contemporary Britain
Only a small proportion of research in the sociological field of arts and culture is on the state and its effects. Literature which touches on this topic often comes from the policy arena and the wide variety of disciplines interested in public policy. Research tends to focus on two key themes: funding and censorship. But the effects of state actions are much broader. Moreover, state support is often set in opposition to the market, but markets a…
Doing Visual Ethnography Images, Media and Representation in Research
Token Achievement: An Examination of Proportional Representation and Performance Outcomes
Journal Article Token Achievement: An Examination of Proportional Representation and Performance Outcomes Get access Victoria D. Alexander, Victoria D. Alexander Stanford University Address correspondence to Victoria D. Alexander, Department of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, or to Peggy A. Thoits, Department of Sociology, Green Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
The Reed typology: Understanding market-orientation and instrumental values in cultural policy across Europe
This article develops a typology of cultural policy in 30 European nation-states, based on the centrality of “neoliberal” market-based rationalities in subsidised cultural fields. This Resistant, Emergent, Established, and Dominant (REED) typology is based on two measures of marketisation, market-orientation and instrumental values, which are found in European “cultural policy assemblages” (networked systems of cultural policies, cultural policym…
Exhibiting Contradiction: Essays on the Art Museum in the United States
Journal Article Exhibiting Contradiction: Essays on the Art Museum in the United States. By Alan Wallach. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. xiv, 152 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 1-55849-117-1. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 1-55849-118-X.) Get access Victoria Alexander Victoria Alexander University of Surrey, Guildford, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue …
Token Achievement: An Examination of Proportional Representation and Performance Outcomes
Journal Article Token Achievement: An Examination of Proportional Representation and Performance Outcomes Get access Victoria D. Alexander, Victoria D. Alexander Stanford University Address correspondence to Victoria D. Alexander, Department of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, or to Peggy A. Thoits, Department of Sociology, Green Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
Cultural Reproduction
Paying the Piper: Causes and Consequences of Art Patronage
essays in this collection discuss the conscious sponsorship of the creation, production, preservation, and dissemination of the fine arts; that is, arts patronage (p. 1). In particular, the analytical focus of this skillfully edited volume is on the varieties and consequences of various patronage structures. result is a veritable tour d'horizon of the social, economic, and historical dimensions of this interesting subject: from The Social Basis o…
Public Television for Sale: Media, the Market, and the Public Sphere
Public television - the historical and political context the political economy of mass media early visions of public television the content of public television - a case study of the MacNeil/Leyrer News Hour funding and the politics of programming audiences, markets and the public goal ambiguity and organizational survival democracy and the future of public television
From philanthropy to funding: The effects of corporate and public support on American art museums
Pictures at an Exhibition: Conflicting Pressures in Museums and the Display of Art
Organizations face pressures from their environments. When external pressures conflict with each other or with internal desires, organizational personnel face dilemmas. This article examines conflicting pressures in a setting where they are particularly salient: art museums. Various stakeholders, notably external funders and museum curators, press for specific organizational outpus-that is, particular types of exhibitions. This research examines …
Museums and Money: The Impact of Funding on Exhibitions, Scholarship, and Management
Recent controversies over politically sensitive or allegedly pornographic museum exhibitions have called attention to the sources of funding, public and private, of museums and other cultural organizations.Should funders have a say in what gets exhibited by a museum?Would this constitute censorship or merely be a reasonable restraint over the way public or corporate funds are used?While funding for the arts was shifting from individuals to instit…
Exhibiting Contradiction: Essays on the Art Museum in the United States
Journal Article Exhibiting Contradiction: Essays on the Art Museum in the United States. By Alan Wallach. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. xiv, 152 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 1-55849-117-1. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 1-55849-118-X.) Get access Victoria Alexander Victoria Alexander University of Surrey, Guildford, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue …
Doing Visual Ethnography Images, Media and Representation in Research
Art and the State: The Visual Arts in Comparative Perspective
This book examines the impact of states and their policies on visual art. States shape the role of art and artists in society, influence the development of audiences, support artistic work, and even a
Triangulation and integration: Processes, Claims and Implications
Researchers who advocate the use of multiple methods often write interchangeably about 'integrating', 'combining' and 'mixing' methods, sometimes eliding these descriptors with 'triangulation', which itself encompasses several meanings. In this article we argue that such an elision is problematic since it obscures the difference between (a) the processes by which methods (or data) are brought into relationship with each other (combined, integrate…
State Support of Artists: The Case of the United Kingdom in a New Labour Environment and Beyond
This article discusses state support of artists in the United Kingdom, focusing on the Arts Council England. To understand the present—or the future—support of visual artists, one needs to understand the past. Accordingly, the article begins with a brief history of the Arts Council of Great Britain from 1946, discussing Thatcher's reforms after the 1979 election. Tony Blair's New Labour continued many of the same strategies instituted by the Cons…
Cultural Organizations and the State: Art and State Support in Contemporary Britain
Only a small proportion of research in the sociological field of arts and culture is on the state and its effects. Literature which touches on this topic often comes from the policy arena and the wide variety of disciplines interested in public policy. Research tends to focus on two key themes: funding and censorship. But the effects of state actions are much broader. Moreover, state support is often set in opposition to the market, but markets a…
Views of the Neighbourhood: A Photo-Elicitation Study of the Built Environment
Drawing on a participant-centred, photo-elicitation study of the built environment in three neighbourhoods, I discuss how people see their neighbourhoods, both in the visual and aesthetic sense, and also how they view (metaphorically) their local surroundings. Participants took part in photo-elicitation interviews and, previously, in standard (verbal-only) semi-structured interviews. Results suggest that people care about their neighbourhoods and…
Art at the crossroads: The arts in society and the sociology of art
Art and the Twenty-First Century Gift: Corporate Philanthropy and Government Funding in the Cultural Sector
Marcel Mauss's work on the archaic gift contributes to understandings of corporate and government support of arts organisations, or ‘institutional funding’. His approach allows us to see institutional funding as a gift that is embedded in a system of exchange wherein gifts come with a variety of obligations, and self-interest and disinterestedness are inseparable. The institutional gift operates through money and contracts; nevertheless, it entai…
Markets: Artistic and Cultural
A brave look at disadvantage, black youth, and culture: Patterson and Fosse's The Cultural Matrix
This article provides a review of The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth, edited by Orlando Patterson with Ethan Fosse (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-674-72875-2, cloth, £33.95). In the collection, Patterson and Fosse bring together theoretical and empirical work that focuses on culture and disadvantage in the African-American community. This book is important. It is packed with fresh insights and e…
Enterprise Culture and the Arts: Neoliberal Values and British Art Institutions
Digital traces of distinction? Popular orientation and user-engagement with status hierarchies in TripAdvisor reviews of cultural organizations
Cultural organizations are categorized by cultural products (high or popular culture) and by organizational form (nonprofit or commercial). In sociology, these classifications are understood predominantly through a Bourdieusian lens, which links cultural consumption to habitus and a class-based struggle for distinction. However, people’s engagement with institutionalized cultural classifications may be expressed differently on the Internet, where…
Heteronomy in the arts field: State funding andBritish arts organizations
For Bourdieu, the field of cultural production is comprised of an autonomous and a heteronomous sector. A heteronomous sector is one that is interpenetrated by the commercial field. I discuss an arena that, until recently, was part of the relatively autonomous sector in the field of cultural production - the supported arts sector in the United Kingdom - and argue that it became more heteronomous,due to the penetration by the state. Heteronomy due…
Scandal and the Work of Art: The Nude in an Aesthetically Inflected Sociology of the Arts
American sociologists working in the production perspective have produced a rich body of work on systems of aesthetic-cultural production, distribution, and consumption, but they have paid relatively little attention to the work of art. Aligning with new sociological work that takes the work of art seriously, this article contributes to an aesthetically inflected sociology of the arts: research that includes the work of art as an integral part of…
Contestation in aesthetic fields: Legitimation and legitimacy struggles in outsider art
The Reed typology: Understanding market-orientation and instrumental values in cultural policy across Europe
This article develops a typology of cultural policy in 30 European nation-states, based on the centrality of “neoliberal” market-based rationalities in subsidised cultural fields. This Resistant, Emergent, Established, and Dominant (REED) typology is based on two measures of marketisation, market-orientation and instrumental values, which are found in European “cultural policy assemblages” (networked systems of cultural policies, cultural policym…
Contradictory aims: How state flagship institutions undermine equity in undergraduate admissions
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