R N Jacobs
Biographic Data
| ID | 213607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R N Jacobs |
| GIVEN NAMES | R N |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobs |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBS R N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Albany State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1253-8102 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 257 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The resurgence of antisemitism: Insights from cultural sociology
Cultural sociology throughout the world: A critical exploration
Ron Eyerman: A retrospective
A Dívida Galopante: A Economia Das Apostas E Os Significados Dos Usos Do Dinheiro No Turfe
Neste trabalho discuto a imbricada relação entre o dinheiro e as apostas no turfe produzindo uma economia específica de trocas entre seus jogadores. Proponho discutir o que está efetivamente sendo jogado. A primeira imagem que vem à cabeça é a de que, no jogo, apostam-se bens materiais, mais especificamente dinheiro. Nas casas de jogo, entretanto, essa associação se dá a partir da relação de uma economia do crédito circulante com base em prestígi…
Jeffrey Alexander and the Development of Cultural Sociology
Alexander's work has had a major impact on cultural sociology and the development of sociological theory more generally. His work in cultural sociology provides a large and useful toolkit for sociologists interested in doing empirical work on meaning and society. His theory of the civil sphere provides a template for scholars interested in studying the processes by which society itself become an object of interpretation and evaluation. All of the…
Sociology of the Public Sphere
Media meta-commentary and the performance of expertise
This article examines the rise of meta-commentary in US media, and considers the consequences it has for the social construction and the performance of intellectual expertise. Media meta-commentary is defined as critical reflection about media practices and performances, in which the primary basis for criticism is the comparison of different media formats. Meta-commentary began to emerge with the differentiation of the aesthetic sphere and the de…
The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology
This book examines the independent debates and modes of thought that have developed in the field of cultural sociology. It describes a variety of pathways for engaging in cultural sociology, all of which offer a template for elucidating the ways that meaning shapes social life. It offers an account of the origins of cultural sociology and how it has grown into the maturity it enjoys today, focusing on the so-called “cultural turn”—an epochal tran…
Journalism after Trump
Rituals, repertoires, and performances in post-modernity
The Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary scholarship in sociology and related disciplines focused on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With sixty-five essays written by scholars from around the world, the book draws diverse approaches to cultural sociology into a dialogue that charts new pathways for research on culture in a global era. Contributing scholars addres…
The Hermeneutics of Hannity: Format Innovation in the Space of Opinion after September 11
This article explores changes in media and political culture in the US since 11 September 2001. Our specific focus is opinion media on cable television, in particular Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes program. We argue that the events of September 11 provided an opportunity for conservative pundits to respond to some of the cultural limitations that had been associated with the cable talk format, creating a new cultural environment for mediated…
A cultural sociology of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report
Surfing Life: Surface, Substructure and the Commodification of the Sublime
Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture
On the Communicative Geography of Global Sociology
This article analyzes the two distinct communicative logics that inform the institutional geography and normative understanding of global sociology. The globalizing logic imagines a unitary global space that organizes sociological debate; the transnational logic envisions a series of overlapping sociological debates, often organized within a national context that is in the process of cosmopolitan, global, and transnational transformation. We argu…
Narrative and Legitimacy: U.S. Congressional Debates about the Nonprofit Sector
This article develops a theory about the narrative foundations of public policy. Politicians draw on specific types of narratives in order to connect the policies they are proposing, the needs of the public, and their own needs for legitimacy. In particular, politicians are drawn to policy narratives in which they themselves occupy the central and heroic character position, and where they are able to protect the scope of their jurisdictional auth…
Toward a Political Sociology of Civil Society
Race, Media, and the Crisis of Civil Society: From Watts to Rodney King
Since the early nineteenth century, African-Americans have turned to black newspapers to monitor the mainstream media and to develop alternative interpretations of public events. Ronald Jacobs tells the stories of these newspapers, showing how they increased black visibility within white civil society and helped to form separate black public spheres in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Comparing African-American and 'mainstream' media coverage o…
Race, Media and Civil Society
This article examines current theoretical debates about the public sphere by looking through the prism of race and the media. The history of the black public sphere in the United States illustrates why the publicity strategies of marginalized groups cannot concentrate solely on 'mainstream' media and dominant publics, but must also include active participation in, and cultivation of, alternative public spheres. Historically, the black press has s…
Romance, Irony, and Solidarity
Contemporary social theory has turned increasingly to concepts such as civil society, community, and the public sphere in order to theorize about the construction of vital, democratic and solidaristic political cultures. The dominant prescriptions for attaining this end invoke the need for institutional and procedural reform, but overlook the autonomous role of culture in shaping and defining the forms of social solidarity. This article proposes …
The Time of the Tribes: The Decline of Individualism in Mass Society.Michel Maffesoli , Don Smith
Producing the news, producing the crisis: Narrativity, Television and News Work
Civil Society and Crisis: Culture, Discourse, and the Rodney King Beating
Narrative methods are used to analyze the cultural dynamics of civil society through a comparison of African-American and "main-stream" newspaper coverage of the Rodney King crisis in Los Angeles. The newspapers' different narrative constructions affected the selection and interpretation of significant crisis events, shaped social expectations about how the crisis would be resolved, and constrained the range of symbolic strategies available to lo…
Civil Society and Crisis: Culture, Discourse, and the Rodney King Beating
Narrative methods are used to analyze the cultural dynamics of civil society through a comparison of African-American and "main-stream" newspaper coverage of the Rodney King crisis in Los Angeles. The newspapers' different narrative constructions affected the selection and interpretation of significant crisis events, shaped social expectations about how the crisis would be resolved, and constrained the range of symbolic strategies available to lo…
Producing the news, producing the crisis: Narrativity, Television and News Work
Narrative and Legitimacy: U.S. Congressional Debates about the Nonprofit Sector
This article develops a theory about the narrative foundations of public policy. Politicians draw on specific types of narratives in order to connect the policies they are proposing, the needs of the public, and their own needs for legitimacy. In particular, politicians are drawn to policy narratives in which they themselves occupy the central and heroic character position, and where they are able to protect the scope of their jurisdictional auth…
Romance, Irony, and Solidarity
Contemporary social theory has turned increasingly to concepts such as civil society, community, and the public sphere in order to theorize about the construction of vital, democratic and solidaristic political cultures. The dominant prescriptions for attaining this end invoke the need for institutional and procedural reform, but overlook the autonomous role of culture in shaping and defining the forms of social solidarity. This article proposes …
A cultural sociology of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report
Race, Media and Civil Society
This article examines current theoretical debates about the public sphere by looking through the prism of race and the media. The history of the black public sphere in the United States illustrates why the publicity strategies of marginalized groups cannot concentrate solely on 'mainstream' media and dominant publics, but must also include active participation in, and cultivation of, alternative public spheres. Historically, the black press has s…
The Hermeneutics of Hannity: Format Innovation in the Space of Opinion after September 11
This article explores changes in media and political culture in the US since 11 September 2001. Our specific focus is opinion media on cable television, in particular Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes program. We argue that the events of September 11 provided an opportunity for conservative pundits to respond to some of the cultural limitations that had been associated with the cable talk format, creating a new cultural environment for mediated…
Journalism after Trump
Jeffrey Alexander and the Development of Cultural Sociology
Alexander's work has had a major impact on cultural sociology and the development of sociological theory more generally. His work in cultural sociology provides a large and useful toolkit for sociologists interested in doing empirical work on meaning and society. His theory of the civil sphere provides a template for scholars interested in studying the processes by which society itself become an object of interpretation and evaluation. All of the…
Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture
On the Communicative Geography of Global Sociology
This article analyzes the two distinct communicative logics that inform the institutional geography and normative understanding of global sociology. The globalizing logic imagines a unitary global space that organizes sociological debate; the transnational logic envisions a series of overlapping sociological debates, often organized within a national context that is in the process of cosmopolitan, global, and transnational transformation. We argu…
Producing the news, producing the crisis: Narrativity, Television and News Work
Civil Society and Crisis: Culture, Discourse, and the Rodney King Beating
Narrative methods are used to analyze the cultural dynamics of civil society through a comparison of African-American and "main-stream" newspaper coverage of the Rodney King crisis in Los Angeles. The newspapers' different narrative constructions affected the selection and interpretation of significant crisis events, shaped social expectations about how the crisis would be resolved, and constrained the range of symbolic strategies available to lo…
Romance, Irony, and Solidarity
Contemporary social theory has turned increasingly to concepts such as civil society, community, and the public sphere in order to theorize about the construction of vital, democratic and solidaristic political cultures. The dominant prescriptions for attaining this end invoke the need for institutional and procedural reform, but overlook the autonomous role of culture in shaping and defining the forms of social solidarity. This article proposes …
The Time of the Tribes: The Decline of Individualism in Mass Society.Michel Maffesoli , Don Smith
Race, Media and Civil Society
This article examines current theoretical debates about the public sphere by looking through the prism of race and the media. The history of the black public sphere in the United States illustrates why the publicity strategies of marginalized groups cannot concentrate solely on 'mainstream' media and dominant publics, but must also include active participation in, and cultivation of, alternative public spheres. Historically, the black press has s…
Race, Media, and the Crisis of Civil Society: From Watts to Rodney King
Since the early nineteenth century, African-Americans have turned to black newspapers to monitor the mainstream media and to develop alternative interpretations of public events. Ronald Jacobs tells the stories of these newspapers, showing how they increased black visibility within white civil society and helped to form separate black public spheres in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Comparing African-American and 'mainstream' media coverage o…
Toward a Political Sociology of Civil Society
Narrative and Legitimacy: U.S. Congressional Debates about the Nonprofit Sector
This article develops a theory about the narrative foundations of public policy. Politicians draw on specific types of narratives in order to connect the policies they are proposing, the needs of the public, and their own needs for legitimacy. In particular, politicians are drawn to policy narratives in which they themselves occupy the central and heroic character position, and where they are able to protect the scope of their jurisdictional auth…
Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture
On the Communicative Geography of Global Sociology
This article analyzes the two distinct communicative logics that inform the institutional geography and normative understanding of global sociology. The globalizing logic imagines a unitary global space that organizes sociological debate; the transnational logic envisions a series of overlapping sociological debates, often organized within a national context that is in the process of cosmopolitan, global, and transnational transformation. We argu…
A cultural sociology of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report
Surfing Life: Surface, Substructure and the Commodification of the Sublime
The Hermeneutics of Hannity: Format Innovation in the Space of Opinion after September 11
This article explores changes in media and political culture in the US since 11 September 2001. Our specific focus is opinion media on cable television, in particular Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes program. We argue that the events of September 11 provided an opportunity for conservative pundits to respond to some of the cultural limitations that had been associated with the cable talk format, creating a new cultural environment for mediated…
Rituals, repertoires, and performances in post-modernity
The Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary scholarship in sociology and related disciplines focused on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With sixty-five essays written by scholars from around the world, the book draws diverse approaches to cultural sociology into a dialogue that charts new pathways for research on culture in a global era. Contributing scholars addres…
The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology
This book examines the independent debates and modes of thought that have developed in the field of cultural sociology. It describes a variety of pathways for engaging in cultural sociology, all of which offer a template for elucidating the ways that meaning shapes social life. It offers an account of the origins of cultural sociology and how it has grown into the maturity it enjoys today, focusing on the so-called “cultural turn”—an epochal tran…
Journalism after Trump
Media meta-commentary and the performance of expertise
This article examines the rise of meta-commentary in US media, and considers the consequences it has for the social construction and the performance of intellectual expertise. Media meta-commentary is defined as critical reflection about media practices and performances, in which the primary basis for criticism is the comparison of different media formats. Meta-commentary began to emerge with the differentiation of the aesthetic sphere and the de…
Ron Eyerman: A retrospective
A Dívida Galopante: A Economia Das Apostas E Os Significados Dos Usos Do Dinheiro No Turfe
Neste trabalho discuto a imbricada relação entre o dinheiro e as apostas no turfe produzindo uma economia específica de trocas entre seus jogadores. Proponho discutir o que está efetivamente sendo jogado. A primeira imagem que vem à cabeça é a de que, no jogo, apostam-se bens materiais, mais especificamente dinheiro. Nas casas de jogo, entretanto, essa associação se dá a partir da relação de uma economia do crédito circulante com base em prestígi…
Jeffrey Alexander and the Development of Cultural Sociology
Alexander's work has had a major impact on cultural sociology and the development of sociological theory more generally. His work in cultural sociology provides a large and useful toolkit for sociologists interested in doing empirical work on meaning and society. His theory of the civil sphere provides a template for scholars interested in studying the processes by which society itself become an object of interpretation and evaluation. All of the…
Sociology of the Public Sphere
Cultural sociology throughout the world: A critical exploration
The resurgence of antisemitism: Insights from cultural sociology
Sociology (17 works) · Law (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Social science (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology of culture (7 works)