Shyon Baumann
Biographic Data
| ID | 3632067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shyon Baumann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shyon |
| FAMILY NAME | Baumann |
| SIGNATURE | BAUMANN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 454 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Meat politics at the dinner table: Understanding differences and similarities in Canadians’ meat-related attitudes, preferences and practices
Few food groups are subject to the same depth and scope of critique as meat. Yet little is known about how the Canadian public feels about meat production and consumption. In other jurisdictions, meat has been a politically polarizing topic; thus, we focus our analysis on political differences (and similarities) in orientations toward meat. In this paper, we draw on survey data collected on a quota sample of Canadians (n=2328) in order to address…
How do producers imagine consumers? Connecting farm and fork through a cultural repertoire of consumer sovereignty
The phenomena of meat production and consumption are related but often studied separately, funnelled into silos of agro-food and consumer-focussed research. This article aims to reconnect these spheres by asking: How do meat producers understand the role of consumers in the ethical meatscape? We draw from interviews and site visits with 74 actors engaged with the ethical meat system in Canada. We find that consumers loom large in the cultural ima…
Moral Entrepreneurialism for the Hamburger: Strategies for Marketing a Contested Fast Food
Recent research has extended the concept of moral entrepreneurialism to corporate actors. We build on this research to investigate how corporations succeed in this effort by uncovering the strategies and tools they employ as moral entrepreneurs. To do so, we examine the corporate discourse of three prominent fast-food firms to identify how they present hamburgers as good food, in a context where beef is increasingly criticized as morally suspect.…
Framing economic inequality in the news in Canada and the United States
News frames are the interpretations and emphases in the presentation of complex issues that privilege certain understandings over others. We take the case of the framing of economic inequality in the news in order to make an empirical contribution and a conceptual contribution. The framing of economic inequality in news coverage is important to understand as news frames can shape public opinion and subsequently policy responses to inequality. The…
Eating for Taste and Eating for Change: Ethical Consumption as a High-Status Practice
Under what conditions is ethical consumption a high-status practice? Using unique food consumption survey data on aesthetic and ethical preferences, we investigate how these orientations to food are related. Existing research on high-status food consumption points to the “foodie,” who defines good taste through aesthetic standards. And emergent evidence suggests the “ethical consumer,” whose consumption is driven by moral principles, may also be …
Meat as benign, meat as risk: Mapping news discourse of an ambiguous issue
The Digital Difference: Media Technology and the Theory of Communication Effects
Democratizing Inequalities: Dilemmas of the New Public Participation
Caring consumption as marketing schema: Representations of Motherhood in an Era of Hyperconsumption
What can representations of women's 'caring consumption' (Thompson Citation1996) reveal about broad cultural understandings of the nature of motherhood? We study Canadian television advertisements to gain insight into the production of cultural schemas and the reproduction of beliefs about gender and motherhood. Employing an inductive qualitative analysis of portrayals of mothers and women who are not depicted as mothers, we find that the definin…
The Industrial Diet: The Degradation of Food and the Struggle for Healthy Eating
Foodies: Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Foodscape
Socially defunct: A comparative analysis of the underrepresentation of older women in advertising
The Culture of Cultural Markets
Can cultural sociology and organizational sociology make a good couple? Can they bring out the best in each other? Can they grow together, so that each one reaches their full potential? Each member of this couple has its flaws. Cultural sociology, with its insistence on examining the meaning of everything, can sometimes talk in circles, reflecting back on its own subjectivity, so that others wonder if we are really getting anywhere. Organizationa…
Caring About Food: Doing Gender in the Foodie Kitchen
This article draws on interviews with 'foodies'-people with a passion for eating and learning about food-to explore questions of gender and foodie culture. The analysis suggests that while this culture is by no means gender-neutral, foodies are enacting gender in ways that warrant closer inspection. This article puts forward new empirical findings about gender and food and employs the concept of 'doing gender' to explore how masculinities and fem…
Introduction: Classifying culture-Agents, structures, processes
Hollywood Highbrow: From Entertainment to Art (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)
In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves." "The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramat…
A general theory of artistic legitimation: How art worlds are like social movements
Democracy versus Distinction: A Study of Omnivorousness in Gourmet Food Writing
The American culinary field has experienced a broadening in recent decades. While French food retains high status, gourmet food can now come from a broad range of cuisines. This change mirrors a broadening in other cultural fields labeled “omnivorousness” within the sociology of culture. The authors take gourmet food writing as a case study to understand the rationales underlying omnivorousness. Their findings, based on qualitative and quantitati…
Palatable nationalism: A study of American cuisine through Gourmet food writing
Marketing, cultural hierarchy, and the relevance of critics: Film in the United States, 1935-1980
Intellectualization and Art World Development: Film in the United States
The social history of film in the United States is examined to illuminate the ideological and organizational foundations of the valuation of art. Attempts to valorize film as art began in film's first decades. Thereafter, a series of key events and actions in the late 1950s and 1960s, both inside and outside the film world, resulted in a shift in audiences' perception of film-from a form of entertainment to a cultural genre that could properly be…
The Instability of Androgynous Names: The Symbolic Maintenance of Gender Boundaries
By definition, androgynous names do not serve as gender markers. Two radically different expectations about their growth are plausible: on the one hand, the rise of the feminist movement, which militates against gender distinctions, would suggest androgynous names increasing in recent decades. On the other hand, cross-cultural research indicates that first names designate gender more frequently than any other characteristic of a child or its fami…
Democracy versus Distinction: A Study of Omnivorousness in Gourmet Food Writing
The American culinary field has experienced a broadening in recent decades. While French food retains high status, gourmet food can now come from a broad range of cuisines. This change mirrors a broadening in other cultural fields labeled “omnivorousness” within the sociology of culture. The authors take gourmet food writing as a case study to understand the rationales underlying omnivorousness. Their findings, based on qualitative and quantitati…
Intellectualization and Art World Development: Film in the United States
The social history of film in the United States is examined to illuminate the ideological and organizational foundations of the valuation of art. Attempts to valorize film as art began in film's first decades. Thereafter, a series of key events and actions in the late 1950s and 1960s, both inside and outside the film world, resulted in a shift in audiences' perception of film-from a form of entertainment to a cultural genre that could properly be…
A general theory of artistic legitimation: How art worlds are like social movements
Caring About Food: Doing Gender in the Foodie Kitchen
This article draws on interviews with 'foodies'-people with a passion for eating and learning about food-to explore questions of gender and foodie culture. The analysis suggests that while this culture is by no means gender-neutral, foodies are enacting gender in ways that warrant closer inspection. This article puts forward new empirical findings about gender and food and employs the concept of 'doing gender' to explore how masculinities and fem…
The Instability of Androgynous Names: The Symbolic Maintenance of Gender Boundaries
By definition, androgynous names do not serve as gender markers. Two radically different expectations about their growth are plausible: on the one hand, the rise of the feminist movement, which militates against gender distinctions, would suggest androgynous names increasing in recent decades. On the other hand, cross-cultural research indicates that first names designate gender more frequently than any other characteristic of a child or its fami…
Socially defunct: A comparative analysis of the underrepresentation of older women in advertising
Marketing, cultural hierarchy, and the relevance of critics: Film in the United States, 1935-1980
How do producers imagine consumers? Connecting farm and fork through a cultural repertoire of consumer sovereignty
The phenomena of meat production and consumption are related but often studied separately, funnelled into silos of agro-food and consumer-focussed research. This article aims to reconnect these spheres by asking: How do meat producers understand the role of consumers in the ethical meatscape? We draw from interviews and site visits with 74 actors engaged with the ethical meat system in Canada. We find that consumers loom large in the cultural ima…
Introduction: Classifying culture-Agents, structures, processes
Caring consumption as marketing schema: Representations of Motherhood in an Era of Hyperconsumption
What can representations of women's 'caring consumption' (Thompson Citation1996) reveal about broad cultural understandings of the nature of motherhood? We study Canadian television advertisements to gain insight into the production of cultural schemas and the reproduction of beliefs about gender and motherhood. Employing an inductive qualitative analysis of portrayals of mothers and women who are not depicted as mothers, we find that the definin…
Meat as benign, meat as risk: Mapping news discourse of an ambiguous issue
The Digital Difference: Media Technology and the Theory of Communication Effects
The Instability of Androgynous Names: The Symbolic Maintenance of Gender Boundaries
By definition, androgynous names do not serve as gender markers. Two radically different expectations about their growth are plausible: on the one hand, the rise of the feminist movement, which militates against gender distinctions, would suggest androgynous names increasing in recent decades. On the other hand, cross-cultural research indicates that first names designate gender more frequently than any other characteristic of a child or its fami…
Intellectualization and Art World Development: Film in the United States
The social history of film in the United States is examined to illuminate the ideological and organizational foundations of the valuation of art. Attempts to valorize film as art began in film's first decades. Thereafter, a series of key events and actions in the late 1950s and 1960s, both inside and outside the film world, resulted in a shift in audiences' perception of film-from a form of entertainment to a cultural genre that could properly be…
Marketing, cultural hierarchy, and the relevance of critics: Film in the United States, 1935-1980
Palatable nationalism: A study of American cuisine through Gourmet food writing
Hollywood Highbrow: From Entertainment to Art (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)
In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves." "The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramat…
A general theory of artistic legitimation: How art worlds are like social movements
Democracy versus Distinction: A Study of Omnivorousness in Gourmet Food Writing
The American culinary field has experienced a broadening in recent decades. While French food retains high status, gourmet food can now come from a broad range of cuisines. This change mirrors a broadening in other cultural fields labeled “omnivorousness” within the sociology of culture. The authors take gourmet food writing as a case study to understand the rationales underlying omnivorousness. Their findings, based on qualitative and quantitati…
Introduction: Classifying culture-Agents, structures, processes
Caring About Food: Doing Gender in the Foodie Kitchen
This article draws on interviews with 'foodies'-people with a passion for eating and learning about food-to explore questions of gender and foodie culture. The analysis suggests that while this culture is by no means gender-neutral, foodies are enacting gender in ways that warrant closer inspection. This article puts forward new empirical findings about gender and food and employs the concept of 'doing gender' to explore how masculinities and fem…
Socially defunct: A comparative analysis of the underrepresentation of older women in advertising
The Culture of Cultural Markets
Can cultural sociology and organizational sociology make a good couple? Can they bring out the best in each other? Can they grow together, so that each one reaches their full potential? Each member of this couple has its flaws. Cultural sociology, with its insistence on examining the meaning of everything, can sometimes talk in circles, reflecting back on its own subjectivity, so that others wonder if we are really getting anywhere. Organizationa…
Foodies: Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Foodscape
The Industrial Diet: The Degradation of Food and the Struggle for Healthy Eating
Democratizing Inequalities: Dilemmas of the New Public Participation
Caring consumption as marketing schema: Representations of Motherhood in an Era of Hyperconsumption
What can representations of women's 'caring consumption' (Thompson Citation1996) reveal about broad cultural understandings of the nature of motherhood? We study Canadian television advertisements to gain insight into the production of cultural schemas and the reproduction of beliefs about gender and motherhood. Employing an inductive qualitative analysis of portrayals of mothers and women who are not depicted as mothers, we find that the definin…
The Digital Difference: Media Technology and the Theory of Communication Effects
Eating for Taste and Eating for Change: Ethical Consumption as a High-Status Practice
Under what conditions is ethical consumption a high-status practice? Using unique food consumption survey data on aesthetic and ethical preferences, we investigate how these orientations to food are related. Existing research on high-status food consumption points to the “foodie,” who defines good taste through aesthetic standards. And emergent evidence suggests the “ethical consumer,” whose consumption is driven by moral principles, may also be …
Meat as benign, meat as risk: Mapping news discourse of an ambiguous issue
Framing economic inequality in the news in Canada and the United States
News frames are the interpretations and emphases in the presentation of complex issues that privilege certain understandings over others. We take the case of the framing of economic inequality in the news in order to make an empirical contribution and a conceptual contribution. The framing of economic inequality in news coverage is important to understand as news frames can shape public opinion and subsequently policy responses to inequality. The…
Moral Entrepreneurialism for the Hamburger: Strategies for Marketing a Contested Fast Food
Recent research has extended the concept of moral entrepreneurialism to corporate actors. We build on this research to investigate how corporations succeed in this effort by uncovering the strategies and tools they employ as moral entrepreneurs. To do so, we examine the corporate discourse of three prominent fast-food firms to identify how they present hamburgers as good food, in a context where beef is increasingly criticized as morally suspect.…
How do producers imagine consumers? Connecting farm and fork through a cultural repertoire of consumer sovereignty
The phenomena of meat production and consumption are related but often studied separately, funnelled into silos of agro-food and consumer-focussed research. This article aims to reconnect these spheres by asking: How do meat producers understand the role of consumers in the ethical meatscape? We draw from interviews and site visits with 74 actors engaged with the ethical meat system in Canada. We find that consumers loom large in the cultural ima…
Meat politics at the dinner table: Understanding differences and similarities in Canadians’ meat-related attitudes, preferences and practices
Few food groups are subject to the same depth and scope of critique as meat. Yet little is known about how the Canadian public feels about meat production and consumption. In other jurisdictions, meat has been a politically polarizing topic; thus, we focus our analysis on political differences (and similarities) in orientations toward meat. In this paper, we draw on survey data collected on a quota sample of Canadians (n=2328) in order to address…
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (12 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (9 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Business (5 works)