Diana Crane
Biographic Data
| ID | 96206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana Crane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana |
| FAMILY NAME | Crane |
| SIGNATURE | CRANE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 67 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 559 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 66 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Fashion and Artification in the French Luxury Fashion Industry
Fashion design is created in systems of collaborative relationships comparable to art worlds but fashion systems differ from art worlds in the relative emphasis on economic considerations and in the utility of what is produced. A brief history of the French fashion systems underlying haute couture and luxury ready-to-wear fashion reveals that both systems exhibited a tendency toward partial artification, as seen in the creation of designs with av…
From Goodwill to Grunge: A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies
Most discussions of fashion focus on styles aimed at upper-class or upper-middle-class consumers. Fashionable clothes are usually expensive and intended to project an image of their wearer's elevated social position. Instead, Jennifer Le Zotte provides an extensive analysis of secondhand clothing and its history in America, including its sellers and its consumers. Le Zotte argues that secondhand clothes are not only a means for those with limited…
Global Culture: Media, Arts, Policy, and Globalization
Culture no longer has borders. With the advent of internet sites like Sothebys.com and the increasing reality of globalization, culture itself has gone global. This collection focuses on questions involving national identity, indigenous culture, economic growth, free trade, cultural policy, and global tourism. Global Culture looks at all aspects of the arts including: film, art, music, theater, television, and museums. Global Culture fleshes out …
The puzzle of the ethical fashion consumer: Implications for the future of the fashion system
Ethical fashion consumers who assess the environmental and social aspects of products before purchasing them are relatively rare because fashion consumption is a complex activity and tends to occur under conditions that tend to discourage ethical considerations. Standard criteria for evaluating ecologically sound or safe products or services are lacking. The ethical fashion market is a niche market, constituting about 1 per cent of the global fas…
Dressing for the Culture Wars: Style and the Politics of Self-Presentation in the 1960s and 1970s
Often regarded as frivolous and superficial, fashion under certain circumstances performs an important social role by providing symbols that represent social tensions and conflicts. Betty Luther Hillman argues that fashion and style create a nonverbal discourse based on individual choices. During the 1960s, a period of rapid social change in American society, dress and hairstyles embodied these changes, and television disseminated them to the ent…
La géographie du marché de l'art mondial en pleine évolution: Cultures des arts régionales et mondialisation culturelle
Le présent article examine la participation des artistes asiatiques au système d'art mondial que dominaient naguère les créateurs et les producteurs européens afin de déterminer si l'hégémonie occidentale est en déclin. Parmi les 500 artistes contemporains avec les montants de ventes aux enchères les plus élevés, 49 % étaient d'origine asiatique en 2011-2012, comparativement à 8 % en 2005. La nationalité des membres des comités de sélection des a…
This Year's Model: Fashion, Media, and the Making of Glamour
Avant-Garde Art and Artists
Art Worlds
One of the most influential ideas in the sociology of art, the concept of an art world provides the basis for a sociological orientation for understanding the arts, in contrast to artist‐centered approaches favored in disciplines other than sociology. Art worlds have both social and cultural components. The concept of an art world implies that art is a collective activity rather than the product of solitary genius. The cultural bases for co‐opera…
Cultural globalization and the dominance of the American film industry: Cultural policies, national film industries, and transnational film
The global film market is a strategic site for examining the global influence of American media culture. Using a database compiled by the European Audiovisual Observatory, I show that the global film market consists of 34 countries that produce over 25 films per year. Thirty-two countries produce less than 26 films. The countries that produce over 25 films per year were categorized as Super Producers (four countries), Major Producers (seven count…
De l’artification: Enquêtes sur le passage à l’art
Comment l’art vient-il aux personnes, aux objets, aux activités ? Comment passe-t-on d’une activité quelconque à un art, d’un simple artefact à une o uvre et d’un praticien à un artiste ? C’est cette opération qu’explore ce livre, sous le nom d’« artification » : un déplacement durable et collectivement assumé de la frontière entre art et non-art. Conditions pratiques, techniques, sémantiques, juridiques, institutionnelles, organisationnelles... …
O futuro do SUS
This paper explores the implications of the globalization of culture worlds in art and fashion. A global culture world is defined as one in which a small number of cultural organizations from several countries dominates the global production and dissemination of a particular form of culture. Participants in global culture worlds congregate in international art or trade fairs where they develop a consensus about what they are doing and who is doin…
Cultural Sociology and Other Disciplines: Interdisciplinarity in the Cultural Sciences
The subject of this article is the relationship between cultural sociology and approaches to culture in other social science disciplines. What are the characteristics of the theoretical environment, in which cultural sociology is operating? The article begins by reviewing the literature on interdisciplinarity. Many authors argue that interdisciplinarity is increasing or should be increasing, but the general consensus is that disciplinary isolatio…
Reflections on the global art market: Implications for the Sociology of Culture
The article examines the recent changes in art world from the characteristics of the global art market and its implications for sociological theories of art. Therefore, it focuses on the correlation established between the decline of the avant-garde art and how there are tenuous boundaries between high culture and popular culture. In this sense, it discusses and analyzes the influence increasingly exerted by actors located in countries such as th…
Globalization and Cultural Flows/Networks
Art Worlds
One of the most influential ideas in the sociology of art, the concept of an art world provides the basis for a sociological orientation for understanding the arts, in contrast to artist‐centered approaches favored in other disciplines. Art worlds have both social and cultural components. The concept of an art world implies that art is a collective activity, rather than the product of solitary genius. The cultural bases for cooperation among acto…
Approaches to material culture: The sociology of fashion and clothing
A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change
Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing
It seems surprising that historians have not paid more attention to the fashion world. Material culture is now an acceptable tool for historical analysis, but the material of the fashion world is usually given only token attention. Diana Crane's Fashion and Its Social Agendas and Jenna Weissman Joselit's A Perfect Fit are, however, welcome corrections to this oversight. These two books are for different audiences and achieve different ends. Josel…
The New American Cultural Sociology
Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing
Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing
Fashion Design and Social Change: Women Designers and Stylistic Innovation
Clothing Behavior as Non-Verbal Resistance: Marginal Women and Alternative Dress in the Nineteenth Century
(1999). Clothing Behavior as Non-Verbal Resistance: Marginal Women and Alternative Dress in the Nineteenth Century. Fashion Theory: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 241-268
Diffusion Models and Fashion: A Reassessment
Large-scale diffusion processes such as those affecting fashionable clothing are difficult to study systematically. This article assesses the relevance of top-down as compared to bottom-up models of diffusion for fashion. Changes in the relationships between fashion organizations and their publics have affected what is diffused, how it is diffused, and to whom. Originally, fashion design was centered in Paris; designers created clothes for local …
Scientists at Major and Minor Universities: A Study of Productivity and Recognition
Scientists at major schools are more likely to be productive and to win recognition than scientists at minor universities, which suggests that universities provide different environments for scientific research. Indices of productivity and recognition that differentiate between major and minor publications and major and minor honors were applied to the research careers of 150 scientists located at three universities of varying prestige. The best …
Social Structure in a Group of Scientists: A Test of the "Invisible College" Hypothesis
The existence of social organization within a research area may be inferred (a) if scientists who have published in the area have more social ties with one another than with scientists who have not published, and (b) if scientists who have published in the area can be differentiated by degree of social participation within the area. Using a mail questionnaire, sociometric data on different types of scientific relationships were obtained from scie…
Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing
Approaches to material culture: The sociology of fashion and clothing
Cultural globalization and the dominance of the American film industry: Cultural policies, national film industries, and transnational film
The global film market is a strategic site for examining the global influence of American media culture. Using a database compiled by the European Audiovisual Observatory, I show that the global film market consists of 34 countries that produce over 25 films per year. Thirty-two countries produce less than 26 films. The countries that produce over 25 films per year were categorized as Super Producers (four countries), Major Producers (seven count…
Globalization, organizational size, and innovation in the French luxury fashion industry: Production of culture theory revisited
According to production of culture theory, small organizations are more likely to produce innovative cultural products than large organizations; large organizations constitute oligopolies that control their markets and remain innovative by coopting smaller organizations, along with their creative talent. A study of the French luxury fashion market shows that a few large companies controlled by conglomerates dominate the market in terms of sales b…
Diffusion Models and Fashion: A Reassessment
Large-scale diffusion processes such as those affecting fashionable clothing are difficult to study systematically. This article assesses the relevance of top-down as compared to bottom-up models of diffusion for fashion. Changes in the relationships between fashion organizations and their publics have affected what is diffused, how it is diffused, and to whom. Originally, fashion design was centered in Paris; designers created clothes for local …
Reward Systems in Art, Science, and Religion
Using type of and control over rewards, Crane develops and illustrates the utility of a scheme for understanding variations among innovations in art, science, and religion
The Academic Marketplace Revisited: A Study of Faculty Mobility Using the Cartter Ratings
This study examines the characteristics of faculty who joined the top twenty departments in six disciplines between 1963 and 1966 in order to evaluate the relative importance of prestige of doctoral origing and scholarly performance in the selection for a position in these departments. While there is a weak relationship between rank of doctorate and rank of hiring department, graduates from departments with the highest ranks are much more likely …
The Establishment of Empirical Sociology: Studies in Continuity, Discontinuity, and Institutionalization
Transnational Networks in Basic Science
Basic science is an inherently international activity. Its principal goal is the production of new knowledge which is evaluated according to universal standards. In terms of membership and goals scientific communities have been international since their emergence during the seventeenth century. Basic science today consists of hundreds of research problem areas in which groups of scientists study similar problems and exchange information across na…
The Rand Corporation: Case Study of a Nonprofit Advisory Corporation
Social Class Origin and Academic Success: The Influence of Two Stratification Systems on Academic Careers
Although a prestigeful occupation may be relatively open to lower class recruits, success may not be equally available to all, regardless of social class origin. Using the academic profession as an example of a prestigeful occupation, a secondary analysis of samples of university professors and recent recipients of doctorates in the arts and sciences and in several professional fields reveals that social class origin is related to academic succes…
Fashion in Science: Does It Exist
Although scientists generally consider fashion, which they define as the selection of problems on the basis of non-scientific criteria, as a form of deviance, it is not necessary to postulate deviant motives on the part of the scientist in order to interpret the phenomenon of fashion in science. The phenomenon of rapid acceptance of scientific information can be explained more satisfactorily as a process of exceptionally rapid growth in a scienti…
Reflections on the global art market: Implications for the Sociology of Culture
The article examines the recent changes in art world from the characteristics of the global art market and its implications for sociological theories of art. Therefore, it focuses on the correlation established between the decline of the avant-garde art and how there are tenuous boundaries between high culture and popular culture. In this sense, it discusses and analyzes the influence increasingly exerted by actors located in countries such as th…
An Exploratory Study of Kuhnian Paradigms in Theoretical High Energy Physics
An exploratory study of the characteristics of paradigms in theoretical high energy physics indicates that: (1) the four elements of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions — symbolic generalizations (fundamental principles), metaphysical paradigms (heuristic models), values for evaluating theories (breadth, testability, elegance, consistency with fundamental principles) and exemplars (models that serve as concrete problem-solutions) - are presen…
O futuro do SUS
This paper explores the implications of the globalization of culture worlds in art and fashion. A global culture world is defined as one in which a small number of cultural organizations from several countries dominates the global production and dissemination of a particular form of culture. Participants in global culture worlds congregate in international art or trade fairs where they develop a consensus about what they are doing and who is doin…
Gender and Hegemony in Fashion Magazines: Women's Interpretations of Fashion Photographs
Women's responses in the context of focus groups to fashion photographs and clothing advertisements in Vogue magazine and to a brief questionnaire eliciting their attitudes toward clothing and fashion are used to examine the nature and extent of hegemonic influences in fashion. Participants' sources of information about fashion suggest that the authority of the fashion press is limited. The magazine's conceptions of women's roles as expressed in …
Clothing Behavior as Non-Verbal Resistance: Marginal Women and Alternative Dress in the Nineteenth Century
(1999). Clothing Behavior as Non-Verbal Resistance: Marginal Women and Alternative Dress in the Nineteenth Century. Fashion Theory: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 241-268
Fashion and Artification in the French Luxury Fashion Industry
Fashion design is created in systems of collaborative relationships comparable to art worlds but fashion systems differ from art worlds in the relative emphasis on economic considerations and in the utility of what is produced. A brief history of the French fashion systems underlying haute couture and luxury ready-to-wear fashion reveals that both systems exhibited a tendency toward partial artification, as seen in the creation of designs with av…
The Sociology of Culture
Cultural Sociology and Other Disciplines: Interdisciplinarity in the Cultural Sciences
The subject of this article is the relationship between cultural sociology and approaches to culture in other social science disciplines. What are the characteristics of the theoretical environment, in which cultural sociology is operating? The article begins by reviewing the literature on interdisciplinarity. Many authors argue that interdisciplinarity is increasing or should be increasing, but the general consensus is that disciplinary isolatio…
Dressing for the Culture Wars: Style and the Politics of Self-Presentation in the 1960s and 1970s
Often regarded as frivolous and superficial, fashion under certain circumstances performs an important social role by providing symbols that represent social tensions and conflicts. Betty Luther Hillman argues that fashion and style create a nonverbal discourse based on individual choices. During the 1960s, a period of rapid social change in American society, dress and hairstyles embodied these changes, and television disseminated them to the ent…
From Goodwill to Grunge: A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies
Most discussions of fashion focus on styles aimed at upper-class or upper-middle-class consumers. Fashionable clothes are usually expensive and intended to project an image of their wearer's elevated social position. Instead, Jennifer Le Zotte provides an extensive analysis of secondhand clothing and its history in America, including its sellers and its consumers. Le Zotte argues that secondhand clothes are not only a means for those with limited…
The puzzle of the ethical fashion consumer: Implications for the future of the fashion system
Ethical fashion consumers who assess the environmental and social aspects of products before purchasing them are relatively rare because fashion consumption is a complex activity and tends to occur under conditions that tend to discourage ethical considerations. Standard criteria for evaluating ecologically sound or safe products or services are lacking. The ethical fashion market is a niche market, constituting about 1 per cent of the global fas…
Scientists at Major and Minor Universities: A Study of Productivity and Recognition
Scientists at major schools are more likely to be productive and to win recognition than scientists at minor universities, which suggests that universities provide different environments for scientific research. Indices of productivity and recognition that differentiate between major and minor publications and major and minor honors were applied to the research careers of 150 scientists located at three universities of varying prestige. The best …
Science and Society
The Rand Corporation: Case Study of a Nonprofit Advisory Corporation
Social Structure in a Group of Scientists: A Test of the "Invisible College" Hypothesis
The existence of social organization within a research area may be inferred (a) if scientists who have published in the area have more social ties with one another than with scientists who have not published, and (b) if scientists who have published in the area can be differentiated by degree of social participation within the area. Using a mail questionnaire, sociometric data on different types of scientific relationships were obtained from scie…
Social Aspects of the Prolongation of Life
Scientists in American Society
Social Class Origin and Academic Success: The Influence of Two Stratification Systems on Academic Careers
Although a prestigeful occupation may be relatively open to lower class recruits, success may not be equally available to all, regardless of social class origin. Using the academic profession as an example of a prestigeful occupation, a secondary analysis of samples of university professors and recent recipients of doctorates in the arts and sciences and in several professional fields reveals that social class origin is related to academic succes…
Fashion in Science: Does It Exist
Although scientists generally consider fashion, which they define as the selection of problems on the basis of non-scientific criteria, as a form of deviance, it is not necessary to postulate deviant motives on the part of the scientist in order to interpret the phenomenon of fashion in science. The phenomenon of rapid acceptance of scientific information can be explained more satisfactorily as a process of exceptionally rapid growth in a scienti…
Science and Morality in Medicine
The Academic Marketplace Revisited: A Study of Faculty Mobility Using the Cartter Ratings
This study examines the characteristics of faculty who joined the top twenty departments in six disciplines between 1963 and 1966 in order to evaluate the relative importance of prestige of doctoral origing and scholarly performance in the selection for a position in these departments. While there is a weak relationship between rank of doctorate and rank of hiring department, graduates from departments with the highest ranks are much more likely …
Transnational Networks in Basic Science
Basic science is an inherently international activity. Its principal goal is the production of new knowledge which is evaluated according to universal standards. In terms of membership and goals scientific communities have been international since their emergence during the seventeenth century. Basic science today consists of hundreds of research problem areas in which groups of scientists study similar problems and exchange information across na…
Invisible colleges; diffusion of knowledge in scientific communities.
Invisible Colleges: Diffusion of Knowledge in Scientific Communities
Reviews qualifications to write these books.But he has an attractive if rather journalistic style, the data he presents are fully documented, and he includes useful appendices with additional technical information.In the first title the author has accumulated his evidence by detailed and extensive research, including encounters with addicts, pushers, and police.He examines all aspects of the drug and its use as an addictive agent, and provides fa…
Patterns of Discovery in the Social Sciences
Social scientists are often vexed because their work does not satisfy the criteria of scientific methodology developed by philosophers of science and logicians who use the natural sciences as their model. In this study, Paul Diesing defines science not by reference to these arbitrary norms delineated by those outside the field but in terms of norms implicit in what social scientists actually do in their everyday work
Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems. Jerome R. Ravetz
Invisible Colleges: Diffusion of Knowledge in Scientific Communities
Reviews qualifications to write these books.But he has an attractive if rather journalistic style, the data he presents are fully documented, and he includes useful appendices with additional technical information.In the first title the author has accumulated his evidence by detailed and extensive research, including encounters with addicts, pushers, and police.He examines all aspects of the drug and its use as an addictive agent, and provides fa…
The Establishment of Empirical Sociology: Studies in Continuity, Discontinuity, and Institutionalization
The Social Potential of the Patient: An Alternative to the Sick Role
Journal Article The Social Potential of the Patient: An Alternative to the Sick Role Get access Diana Crane Diana Crane 1Diana Crane is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Invisible Colleges and The Sanctity of Social Life: Physicians’Treatment of Critically Ill Patients Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 25, Issue 3, Septem…
The Sanctity of Social Life: Physicians and the Critically Ill
Norman Kaplan 1923-1975
The Sanctity of Social Life: Physicians' Treatment of Critically Ill Patients
For years, speculation has been mounting among lawyers, church leaders, social scientists, and the general public over the question of prolongation of life and the critically ill patient's right to die. But what is the physician's attitude toward this controversial subject? Under what conditions does a doctor battle to save the life of the patient, and when does he decide to withdraw medical treatment and allow death to occur? The answers to thes…
Reply to Gaston, Wolinsky, and Bohleber
Reward Systems in Art, Science, and Religion
Using type of and control over rewards, Crane develops and illustrates the utility of a scheme for understanding variations among innovations in art, science, and religion
The Sanctity of Social Life: Physicians' Treatment of Critically Ill Patients
Social Structure in a Group of Scientists: A Test of the “Invisible College” Hypothesis
Sociology (43 works) · Political science (26 works) · Psychology (22 works) · Art (19 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (18 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (16 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Social science (14 works) · Epistemology (12 works)