The Materiality of Ideology
Cultural Consumption and Political Thought after the American Revolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2227017 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Anthony Hoffman (Stanford University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 125 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-62 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/704370 |
| OpenAlex | W2954018913 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 71 |
This article uses the reading patterns of New York’s earliest elites—including a significant number of the founding fathers—who checked out books from the New York Society Library (NYSL), to evaluate the shifting meaning of political affiliation in the years between the ratification of the Constitution and the War of 1812. The reading data come from two charging ledgers spanning two periods (1789–92 and 1799–1806) during which a new country was built, relations with foreign nations were defined, and contestation over the character of a new democracy was intense. Using novel combinations of text and network analysis, I explore the political nature of reading and the extent to which social, economic, and political positions overlapped with what people read. In the process, I identify the key social and cultural dimensions on which New York and, by extension, American elite society was politically stratified in its early years
Aesthetics · Constitution · Consumption (sociology) · Democracy · Elite · Ideology · Materiality (auditing) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Ratification · Reading (process) · Social science · Sociology · Computational and Text Analysis Methods · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Social and Cultural Dynamics
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |