The elite nature of occupations in the creative industries means that cultural workers have found themselves at odds with many parts of the pro-Brexit population, suggest Dave O’Brien and Mark Taylor.
British social science is currently responding to the puzzle of contemporary political events. Most obviously this takes the form of thinking through the vote to leave the EU and the associated rise of reactionary sentiment. There has also been, understandably, a quest to think about the role of social science more generally, in relation to the Trump victory in the USA. In this blog we’d like to offer some reflections on work in cultural and creative industries, as a way of suggesting some connections to current political events. We’re seeing this post in dialogue with the work above, and with a series of insightful posts from University of Bristol’s Siobhan McAndrew. This could represent the beginnings of a ‘cultural sociology’ explanation for the politics we are living through.
We are cautiously suggesting that the way cultural production is organised has an impact on how particular social and political issues are represented. At the same time, the organisation of cultural production also impacts on various social groups’ relationship to the creative occupations making culture. Whilst the debates over how organisations such as the BBC report political and economic affairs have a long history in British social science, our current work suggests more general questions about the relationship between cultural production and politics... Keep reading on The Sociological Review
British social science is currently responding to the puzzle of contemporary political events. Most obviously this takes the form of thinking through the vote to leave the EU and the associated rise of reactionary sentiment. There has also been, understandably, a quest to think about the role of social science more generally, in relation to the Trump victory in the USA. In this blog we’d like to offer some reflections on work in cultural and creative industries, as a way of suggesting some connections to current political events. We’re seeing this post in dialogue with the work above, and with a series of insightful posts from University of Bristol’s Siobhan McAndrew. This could represent the beginnings of a ‘cultural sociology’ explanation for the politics we are living through.
We are cautiously suggesting that the way cultural production is organised has an impact on how particular social and political issues are represented. At the same time, the organisation of cultural production also impacts on various social groups’ relationship to the creative occupations making culture. Whilst the debates over how organisations such as the BBC report political and economic affairs have a long history in British social science, our current work suggests more general questions about the relationship between cultural production and politics... Keep reading on The Sociological Review