Michaela DeSoucey, North Carolina State University

Alexander Hoppe, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Dong-Kyun Im, Seoul National University

Cultural Innovation under Metrics: A Computational Analysis of Personal Finance Blog as a Case - Ryo Sato, University of Chicago

Evaluative Authority without Monopoly: Food Criticism and Moral Distinction in the Digital Age - Camila Crumo, University of São Paulo

Attention as a Field Effect: A Field-Theoretical Account of Attention - Dong-Kyun Im, Seoul National University; Ji Hye Kim, Sogang University; Hye Won Kwon, University of Turku

The Spirit in the Machine: Gen Z's Digital Escapism - Hannah Vines, University of Waterloo

Transcultural Taste: Cultural, Genre, and Plot Negotiations in Chinese Film Ratings on Douban (2005 and 2024) - Xingyue DAI, City University of Hong Kong; Fen Jennifer Lin, City University of Hong Kong

Alexander Hoppe, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Francesca M. Rompal, Santa Barbara City College

Evaluating the Unsettled: Critics, Uncertainty, and the Construction of Value in the Mainstreaming of Hip-Hop - Shirin Purkayastha, Yale University

From Subculture to Cultural Industry: The Institutionalization and Commercialization of Meykhana in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan - Jahandar Jabarov, Baku Slavic University

Refusing Epistemological Eurocentrism: Experimenting with Notes on Hustling in U.S. Hip Hop Music - Alexander Kaiser, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

The Interaction Order of Battle Rap as a Micro Aesthetic Public Sphere - Jessie Dong, Yale University

Alexander Hoppe, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Yifat Gutman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Alternative memorial ceremonies: Extending a research program for the study of ritual - Yifat Gutman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Bitterness as Emotional Language: Narrating Suffering and Making Collective Memory in China, 1946–1963 - Yunyi Li, University of California, San Diego

National Museums and the Shaping of Visibility and Legitimacy in Social Landscapes - Daseul Kim, Stony Brook University

Reclaiming War Memory: Vernacular Museums and the Reincorporation of Marginalized Veterans in Contemporary China - Kaiqing She, New York University; Yourong Yao, Nanyang Technological University

Alexander Hoppe, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Eli R. Wilson, University of New Mexico-Albuquerque

Contradictory Consciousness: Climate Denial and Wildfire Adaptation in Rural California - Zulema Valdez, University of California-Merced

How We Learned to Forget the Bomb: Socially Organized Denial in Contemporary American Nuclear Consciousness - Walter Goettlich, Johnson County Community College

White-Collar Chaos: Charisma, Culture, and Crimes of Broken Trust - Adam James Goldfarb, North Carolina State University

Alexander Hoppe, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Gurur Ertem, Bimeras gGmbH

Body Size Preferences among Kuwaiti Men and Women: A Socio-cultural Study - Maha Meshari Alsejari, Kuwait University; Yagoub Yousif Al-Kandari

Everyone Can Dance, But Not Everyone Can Be Trained: Belonging and Legitimacy in Professional Ballet - Xiaofei Song, University of Alaska Southeast

Performing Plurality: Contemporary Dance and the Limits of European Cultural Democracy - Gurur Ertem, Bimeras gGmbH

The Moving Standard: Evaluation and the Deferred “Stage-Ready” Body in the Korean Opera Field - Taehyun Kim, University of California-San Diego

Alexander Hoppe, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Rian Enid Mulcahy, University of Greenwich

Audience of violence: reacting to the Kenosha Paramilitary Drama - Nicolás Neyra Rudas, Yale University

Framing Atrocity in Their Own Terms: Two Decades of White Supremacist Memory Politics Online - Jack Gabriel Risien Wippell, The Ohio State University; Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, The Ohio State University; Anneliese M Schenk-Day, The Ohio State University

(Left Couch)/Right Couch: Psychotherapy as a Case of Inconspicuous Polarization - Nick Rekenthaler, New York University

Reframing Radicalisation: A Relational Sociology of Qanon - Rian Enid Mulcahy, University of Greenwich; Jessica Simpson, University of Greenwich

The Public Face of White Supremacy: How Extremist Organizations Market Hate - Jack Gabriel Risien Wippell, The Ohio State University

Alexander Hoppe, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Shirley Boya Ouyang, University of California-Irvine

Constructing Population Problems: Governmentality and Computational Analysis of Discursive Shifts in Chinese Official Media, 1946–2024 - Shirley Boya Ouyang, University of California-Irvine

How “Big Heroine” is Created? A Cultural Performance Analysis on Digital Public Discourse in China - Yanru Yang, University at Albany, SUNY

Learning Marxism in China, Encountering Christianity in America: Communist Party Ideology in Action - Zhihao Pan, Syracuse University

The Self-Regulation and the Institutional Incorporation of Chinese Pop-Culture Fandoms on Social Media - Xiaoxin Lin

Alexander Hoppe, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, Masaryk University

Constructing the Victim: Early Belief Formation and Children's Immigration Talk - Anna Hiltner Nouzeilles, Duke University

“I don’t make fantastic plans”: Hopes and dreams among residents with migratory experience in Czechia - Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, Masaryk University; Roman Baláž; Mariia Kortokova

Inclusion Projects: The Practices and Trade-Offs of Civic Belonging - Valentina Cantori, University of Southern California

“The Homecomer” as a phenomenological interpretation of the “Second Generation” in Immigrant Assimilation/Integration Studies - Bonnie Ip, CUNY-Graduate Center

Alexander Hoppe, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Xiangyu Ma, Nanyang Technological University

Ideal-Type Class Analysis: Bridging Theory and Data through Standardized and Comparable Measurement of Cultural Schemas - He WANG, The University of Hong Kong

Interpreting Cultural Valuation Schemas with Computational Semantics - William Rathje, University of California-Berkeley

Mapping Moral Cultures as Meaning Networks: A Computational Framework for Comparative Analysis - Donghyun "Henry" Kim, University of Iowa

On the stylized imperfections of silicon tastes. - Xiangyu Ma, Nanyang Technological University

Alexander Hoppe, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Sydney Sauer, Harvard University

How Science Communicators Produce Lay-Accessible Medical Knowledge - Sydney Sauer, Harvard University

Institutional Coherence: Democratic Values and the Cultural Authority of Science - Gordon Gauchat, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Kassandra Thompson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Lost in Translation: The Distraught Institutionalization of Microbiomedical Science - Oded Marom, University of Southern California; Dan M Kotliar, University of Haifa; Rafi Grosglik, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Mapping the Decolonial Imagination: Mutual Aid Practice in Political Witchcraft and Kashmiri Scholar-Activism - Apoorvaa Joshi, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Seeing is Believing: Emerging cultures of objectivity in scientific practice - Alison Gerber, Lund University; Tobias Olofsson, Lund University

Alexander Hoppe, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Yucheng Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara

Post #MeToo Hollywood: From off-screen changes to on-screen content - Courtney Bell, George Mason University

What’s to Love about Boys Love? An (Un)conventional Approach to the Popular Mass Media Phenomenon - Nida Sanglimsuwan, University of California-Los Angeles

When Reception Becomes Production: the Fabrication of Gender in Fan Fiction - Candice Jiahui Yao, New York University

“Where does her money come from?” Counterfeit and Luxury Consumption in China - Yucheng Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara

ICE Out of LA: Dodger Fans, Protest and Representation - Faye Linda Wachs, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

Alexander Hoppe, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Caty Borum, George Mason University

Ecological Interaction Ritual Chains and the Moral Energy of Persistence in Climate Activism - Daniel Joseph Belback, University of California-San Diego

Radical Resilience in the Artistic Civic Village: Asheville’s Action in the Aftermath of Hurricane Helene - Caty Borum, George Mason University

THE DECLINE OF PERFORMATIVE CAPITAL: From Identity Politics to Ecological Futures - Alexandria Vasquez

The Importance of Being Right: Projectivity and Discourse around Electric Cars - Maddalena Simeon, University of Toronto

Alexander Hoppe, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Danielle Duran, Northeastern University

Gringo-fication en la Lucha Libre: Cultural Omnivorousness and the Futures of Local, Working-Class Cultures - Miguel Chavez, Northwestern University

Poor Taste: Politics of Distinction and Deservingness in the SNAP Program - Danielle Duran, Northeastern University

Race, Political Affiliation Divergence in Attitudes Toward Homosexuality and Black Government Aids - Jui-I Liao, National Taiwan University

Recognition through Redistribution: Experiences of Recognition among Working-Class Youth - Jarmo Kallunki

Alexander Hoppe, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Lingxiao Chen, Emory University

Black-and-White as an Authoritarian Color: The Politics of Colorization in Taiwan’s Cinema and South Korea’s Television - Chihheng Su, National Taiwan University

Practices of Caring for War-Affected Others in Bookstores: A Case Study in Taipei - Linjie Zhang, University of Edinburgh

Provincializing the Cultural Field: Mediatized Genealogies and the “Scenaria” of 1980s Taiwan - Rex Tsung-wei Lin, National Taiwan University

Alexander Hoppe, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Michael Lee Wood, Brigham Young University-Provo

Competing Salvation Goods? Cultural Production, Cultural Consumption, and Religion - Michael Lee Wood, Brigham Young University-Provo; Samuel Norton, Brigham Young University-Provo; Adrienne Ventura, Brigham Young University

Hijacking History: Tragedy Appropriation, Philosemitism and Holocaust narratives in a Christian Sect - Olivia C Summers, University of South Carolina-Columbia

Meatless Boundaries: Practice of Vegetarianism Among Brahmin Men - Anagha Rao, University of Texas at Arlington

“We Don’t Search for Songs, We Search for Memories”: Nostalgia, Iconicity, and Sacred Symbolic Longing - Steven Koh, Yale University

Alexander Hoppe, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Michael Hughes

Becoming a Classical Musician: Interpellation and Habitus Formation Among Graduate Music Students. - John Mirsky, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Contentious Complicity: How Supplemental Education Affects the Formal Schooling of US-bound Chinese Students - Kaiting Zhou, University of California-Los Angeles

Educational expansion and the recomposition of cultural legitimacy in the US and France - Stephane Dorin, University of Limoges

Social Class and Omnivorous Culture Consumption in the early 1940s - Michael Hughes; David L. Brunsma, Virginia Tech

Centralizing lifestyle in status-making - Manning Zhang, Brandeis University

Alexander Hoppe, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Erin Ice, The University of Texas at Austin

"In the Thick of It": Addiction Recovery as a Process of Unwinding Defensive Strategies - Pace T. Ward, University of Notre Dame

Mourning Together: Collective Memory through Self-Obituaries on Instagram - Emilia Edwards, University of Texas-Austin

Right Advice, Wrong Voice: Legitimacy Portfolios in Dementia Caregiving - Cameron Gabriel Beckett, University of Chicago

The Other “Care Deficit”: The Paradox of Receiving Care in a Culture of Self-Reliance - Erin Ice, The University of Texas at Austin

Alexander Hoppe, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Turgut Keskintürk, Duke University

The Politics of Anticipation: How anticipatory motherhood and realized motherhood affect political outcomes - Abigail Jorgensen, Augustine Institute

Values and Political Preferences in Childhood - Christopher Johnston; Martín Opertti; Turgut Keskintürk, Duke University

“What Do I Get Out of It?” Youth Military Service Between Self-Sacrifice and Self-Actualization - Sari R. Alfi-Nissan, University of Oxford; Michal Pagis, Bar-Ilan University

Alexander Hoppe, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Fanling Cheng, Wenzhou Kean University

Artists, Artworks, and Galleries: The Socio-Semantic Network of Contemporary Art Production in Early Artistic Careers - Roberto Velazquez-Quiroz, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Contesting Art at Fair Booths: Spatial Hierarchies and the Co-production of Meaning - Fanling Cheng, Wenzhou Kean University

Creativity Within Constraint: Time Horizons and Meaning Making for Contemporary Violinmakers - Elyas Greenwald Boyan, University of Chicago

Space switch as Pulleys: Collective sensemaking of "cultural singleton" and "cultural ensemble" - Eureka Guo, Oklahoma State University

Alexander Hoppe, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Thomas Kersen, Jackson State University

Hegemonic Disassociation: How Hegemonic Comedians Remain Authentic - Riley Ceperich, University of California-Los Angeles

Hot Mulch and the Sociology of the Edge: Counterculture, Liminality, and Disrupting the Status Quo - Thomas Kersen, Jackson State University

Laughing at the Margins: Intersectionality in Asian American Women’s Stand-Up - Hyehyun Hwang, Chung Ang University

Alexander Hoppe, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Institutional Re-scripting: How Gay Men Reinforce Marriage Over Time by Changing its Meanings - Giora Ashkenazi, Stanford University

Participating in Moral Panic and Enabling Authoritarian Power: A Qualitative Study of Anti-Transgender Advocates - Amanda E. Jane, Boston College

When Understanding Is Not Enough: Emotion, Cultural Work of Intergenerational Negotiation over Marriage - Beichen Fang, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Alexander Hoppe, WZB Berlin Social Science Center