A Trojan Horse at the Tate
Theorizing the Museum as Agency and Structure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3147174 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gordon Fyfe (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1_suppl |
| Pages | 203-228 |
| Publication date | 1995-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-954x.1995.tb03431.x |
| OpenAlex | W2015938839 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 23 |
It is argued that sociology lacks an adequate conceptualization of the museum/society relationship. It is further argued (1) that the museum is an agency of classification; (2) that it is a relationship of cultural interdependence and (3) that museums have an internal relationship to modernization. The institution of the museum is shown to arise out of the indeterminacies of modernization. A dispute in the early history of London's Tate Gallery is explored as it illuminates that institution's organization of the contradictions of modernization. Pace Bourdieu and Elias, a key contradiction is seen to arise from a differentiation of the field of power and the cultural field. It is argued, against essentialist accounts of museums, that the Tate produced its point of view through the medium of this contradiction
Agency (philosophy) · Conceptualization · Contradiction · Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · Institution · Linguistics · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Structure and agency · Symbolic power · Trojan horse · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics
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| Citations per year | 0.26 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2024 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |