Sociological Problems, Vol. 56, issue 1, 2024

Topic of the Issue: NEW PERSPECTIVES AND INTERVENTIONS: THE STATE OF PLAY IN CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY OF THE ARTS

• Trajectories and crosscurrents of cultural sociology of the arts

- Quo Vadis, Sociology? On Using Metaphors in Sociological-Intellectual Practice (David Inglis)

- Art, Media and Spirituality: Haunted by Algorithms? (Guido Nicolosi)

• Symbolic production, cultural consumption and artistic evaluation: contextual changes and social challenges

- Evaluative Judgements, Negative Reviews and "Objective Culture": The Critical Reception of Woody Allen's ARainy Day in New York (Simon Stewart)

- Gender Gap in the Bulgarian Film Industry (Alexander Donev, Ema Angelova)

- Documenting Eastern-Europe Public Monuments through Digital Cartography: The Story of the Grassroots Initiative (Voica Puşcaşiu)

- Somewhere between a Hobby and a Profession: An Approximation to a Translator's Habitus (Lia Duran Mogollon)

- More Matter, with Less Arts? On the Transformation of University Students' Cultural Lifestyles and Culturalisation after the Millenium (Jan Fredrick Hovden)

• Roundtable discussion

• Margins

• New research approaches and methods in social sciences

• Education at stake

• Comments and reviews

• New books