Diana L Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692758 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana L Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana L |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2508-344X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Gender and Performance Capital among Local Musicians
Gender and the Artist Archetype: Understanding Gender Inequality in Artistic Careers
Women artists are systematically disadvantaged across cultural fields. Although some of these disadvantages resemble gender inequalities in non‐artistic work, such as lower pay, underrepresentation, work–family conflict, and symbolic devaluation, others are unique to artistic careers. In this essay, I extend Acker's work on the implicit gendering of the ideal‐typical worker to show how gender implicitly organizes social expectations around artist…
Gender, Field, and Habitus: How Gendered Dispositions Reproduce Fields of Cultural Production
Bourdieu argues that fields of action produce a specific habitus in participants, and views this specific habitus as a mechanism through which the field is reproduced. Although Bourdieu acknowledges the habitus as gendered, he does not theorize gender as part of the mutually constitutive relationship between field and habitus. Using evidence from two cultural fields, the Toronto heavy metal and folk music scenes, I show that gender is central to …
Sustainable and Unsustainable Semi-professionalism: Grassroots Music Careers in Folk and Metal
Sociological research often treats small-time music-making as a step toward a professional music career. However, some music scenes facilitate long-term small-time music careers. I compare career trajectories in two local music scenes: the folk and heavy metal scenes in Toronto. While small-time metal musicians generally cease public performance by their early 30s, many local folk musicians remain active into retirement without professionalizing.…
Cultural scenes and contextual effects on political attitudes
Spatial variation in voting is well documented, but substantively meaningful explanations of how places shape individuals’ politics are lacking. This paper suggests that local cultural ‘scenes’ exert a contextual effect – a spatial effect not driven by demographic differences between individuals in different places – on political attitudes and sensibilities. We measure the local ‘scene’ of Canadian electoral districts (EDs) through an original, n…
Cultural Scenes and Voting Patterns in Canada
Extending recent social science work using the concept of “scene” into politics, this paper investigates connections between cultural variation and political variation across Canadian localities. First, we introduce the notion of “scene.” Then, using a national database of local amenities (with some 1800 categories and 1.6 million data points), we show that key dimensions of cultural meaning account for significant differences in voting patterns …
Symbolic Capital and Gender: Evidence from Two Cultural Fields
This article builds a gendered understanding of Bourdieu's concept of symbolic capital. Through a comparison of two cultural fields - the heavy metal scene and the contemporary folk scene in Toronto, Canada - I show that field structure impacts the extent to which gendered dispositions (which we can understand as masculine capital and feminine capital) are exchangeable for symbolic capital, or reputation. Using semi-structured interviews, discour…
Emotion management from the client's perspective: The Case of Personal Home Care
Recent scholarship examines multiple types of emotion management but these efforts are limited by the absence of service recipients' perspectives. Using interviews with personal home care clients in Toronto, this article extends discussions of emotion management. Both management and recipients expect the worker to respectfully meet and anticipate clients' individual needs but this is relational service, not emotional labour, because it is motivat…
Contextualizing the Artistic Dividend
Artists have been a central theme in recent debates about the causes of urban development. This article shifts attention to the question of context: in what sorts of places are artist concentrations most likely to stimulate the local economy? To tackle this question, we employ a Canadian national database of local amenities. This database includes roughly 1.8 million total amenities in 1,800 distinct categories, across every Canadian locality. By…
Attributes of theories of meaning
Etude critique de quatre theories psychologiques de la representation semantique. Proposition et evaluation d'un modele de l'acquisition semantique
Gender and the Artist Archetype: Understanding Gender Inequality in Artistic Careers
Women artists are systematically disadvantaged across cultural fields. Although some of these disadvantages resemble gender inequalities in non‐artistic work, such as lower pay, underrepresentation, work–family conflict, and symbolic devaluation, others are unique to artistic careers. In this essay, I extend Acker's work on the implicit gendering of the ideal‐typical worker to show how gender implicitly organizes social expectations around artist…
Emotion management from the client's perspective: The Case of Personal Home Care
Recent scholarship examines multiple types of emotion management but these efforts are limited by the absence of service recipients' perspectives. Using interviews with personal home care clients in Toronto, this article extends discussions of emotion management. Both management and recipients expect the worker to respectfully meet and anticipate clients' individual needs but this is relational service, not emotional labour, because it is motivat…
Gender, Field, and Habitus: How Gendered Dispositions Reproduce Fields of Cultural Production
Bourdieu argues that fields of action produce a specific habitus in participants, and views this specific habitus as a mechanism through which the field is reproduced. Although Bourdieu acknowledges the habitus as gendered, he does not theorize gender as part of the mutually constitutive relationship between field and habitus. Using evidence from two cultural fields, the Toronto heavy metal and folk music scenes, I show that gender is central to …
Contextualizing the Artistic Dividend
Artists have been a central theme in recent debates about the causes of urban development. This article shifts attention to the question of context: in what sorts of places are artist concentrations most likely to stimulate the local economy? To tackle this question, we employ a Canadian national database of local amenities. This database includes roughly 1.8 million total amenities in 1,800 distinct categories, across every Canadian locality. By…
Symbolic Capital and Gender: Evidence from Two Cultural Fields
This article builds a gendered understanding of Bourdieu's concept of symbolic capital. Through a comparison of two cultural fields - the heavy metal scene and the contemporary folk scene in Toronto, Canada - I show that field structure impacts the extent to which gendered dispositions (which we can understand as masculine capital and feminine capital) are exchangeable for symbolic capital, or reputation. Using semi-structured interviews, discour…
Gender and Performance Capital among Local Musicians
Cultural Scenes and Voting Patterns in Canada
Extending recent social science work using the concept of “scene” into politics, this paper investigates connections between cultural variation and political variation across Canadian localities. First, we introduce the notion of “scene.” Then, using a national database of local amenities (with some 1800 categories and 1.6 million data points), we show that key dimensions of cultural meaning account for significant differences in voting patterns …
Sustainable and Unsustainable Semi-professionalism: Grassroots Music Careers in Folk and Metal
Sociological research often treats small-time music-making as a step toward a professional music career. However, some music scenes facilitate long-term small-time music careers. I compare career trajectories in two local music scenes: the folk and heavy metal scenes in Toronto. While small-time metal musicians generally cease public performance by their early 30s, many local folk musicians remain active into retirement without professionalizing.…
Cultural scenes and contextual effects on political attitudes
Spatial variation in voting is well documented, but substantively meaningful explanations of how places shape individuals’ politics are lacking. This paper suggests that local cultural ‘scenes’ exert a contextual effect – a spatial effect not driven by demographic differences between individuals in different places – on political attitudes and sensibilities. We measure the local ‘scene’ of Canadian electoral districts (EDs) through an original, n…
Attributes of theories of meaning
Etude critique de quatre theories psychologiques de la representation semantique. Proposition et evaluation d'un modele de l'acquisition semantique
Attributes of theories of meaning
Etude critique de quatre theories psychologiques de la representation semantique. Proposition et evaluation d'un modele de l'acquisition semantique
Contextualizing the Artistic Dividend
Artists have been a central theme in recent debates about the causes of urban development. This article shifts attention to the question of context: in what sorts of places are artist concentrations most likely to stimulate the local economy? To tackle this question, we employ a Canadian national database of local amenities. This database includes roughly 1.8 million total amenities in 1,800 distinct categories, across every Canadian locality. By…
Emotion management from the client's perspective: The Case of Personal Home Care
Recent scholarship examines multiple types of emotion management but these efforts are limited by the absence of service recipients' perspectives. Using interviews with personal home care clients in Toronto, this article extends discussions of emotion management. Both management and recipients expect the worker to respectfully meet and anticipate clients' individual needs but this is relational service, not emotional labour, because it is motivat…
Cultural Scenes and Voting Patterns in Canada
Extending recent social science work using the concept of “scene” into politics, this paper investigates connections between cultural variation and political variation across Canadian localities. First, we introduce the notion of “scene.” Then, using a national database of local amenities (with some 1800 categories and 1.6 million data points), we show that key dimensions of cultural meaning account for significant differences in voting patterns …
Symbolic Capital and Gender: Evidence from Two Cultural Fields
This article builds a gendered understanding of Bourdieu's concept of symbolic capital. Through a comparison of two cultural fields - the heavy metal scene and the contemporary folk scene in Toronto, Canada - I show that field structure impacts the extent to which gendered dispositions (which we can understand as masculine capital and feminine capital) are exchangeable for symbolic capital, or reputation. Using semi-structured interviews, discour…
Cultural scenes and contextual effects on political attitudes
Spatial variation in voting is well documented, but substantively meaningful explanations of how places shape individuals’ politics are lacking. This paper suggests that local cultural ‘scenes’ exert a contextual effect – a spatial effect not driven by demographic differences between individuals in different places – on political attitudes and sensibilities. We measure the local ‘scene’ of Canadian electoral districts (EDs) through an original, n…
Gender and the Artist Archetype: Understanding Gender Inequality in Artistic Careers
Women artists are systematically disadvantaged across cultural fields. Although some of these disadvantages resemble gender inequalities in non‐artistic work, such as lower pay, underrepresentation, work–family conflict, and symbolic devaluation, others are unique to artistic careers. In this essay, I extend Acker's work on the implicit gendering of the ideal‐typical worker to show how gender implicitly organizes social expectations around artist…
Gender, Field, and Habitus: How Gendered Dispositions Reproduce Fields of Cultural Production
Bourdieu argues that fields of action produce a specific habitus in participants, and views this specific habitus as a mechanism through which the field is reproduced. Although Bourdieu acknowledges the habitus as gendered, he does not theorize gender as part of the mutually constitutive relationship between field and habitus. Using evidence from two cultural fields, the Toronto heavy metal and folk music scenes, I show that gender is central to …
Sustainable and Unsustainable Semi-professionalism: Grassroots Music Careers in Folk and Metal
Sociological research often treats small-time music-making as a step toward a professional music career. However, some music scenes facilitate long-term small-time music careers. I compare career trajectories in two local music scenes: the folk and heavy metal scenes in Toronto. While small-time metal musicians generally cease public performance by their early 30s, many local folk musicians remain active into retirement without professionalizing.…
Gender and Performance Capital among Local Musicians
Social and Cultural Dynamics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Cultural capital (3 works)