Nostalgia, irony and collectivity in late-modern culture: The ritual watching of The Disney Christmas Show in Scandinavia
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Nostalgia, irony and collectivity in late-modern culture : The ritual watching of The Disney Christmas Show in Scandinavia. / Schiermer, Bjørn; Carlsen, Hjalmar Bang.
I: Acta Sociologica (United Kingdom), Bind 60, Nr. 2, 01.05.2017, s. 158-175.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Nostalgia, irony and collectivity in late-modern culture
T2 - The ritual watching of The Disney Christmas Show in Scandinavia
AU - Schiermer, Bjørn
AU - Carlsen, Hjalmar Bang
PY - 2017/5/1
Y1 - 2017/5/1
N2 - The paper seeks to promote a sociological understanding of the current wave of nostalgic expressions haunting late-modern Western culture and to re-evaluate the predominantly negative assessment of nostalgia. Filling two gaps in the existing research on nostalgia, the authors wish (1) to reintegrate into the phenomenon its experiential and collective dimensions and (2) to propose a theoretical sociological framework capable of analysing nostalgic ritual. In the first part of the paper, we discuss different approaches to the phenomenon of nostalgia. Second, we delve into the complex emotional and experiential aspects of the phenomenon and distil three different types of nostalgia. Third, seeking inspiration from Émile Durkheim and Randall Collins, we scrutinise the common collective characteristics of these different types of nostalgia. Arguing that Collins remains too interactionist in his approach to ritual, we seek to erect a theoretical framework apt for articulating mediated forms of nostalgic ritual. Fourth, we use our theoretical framework to analyse a well-known instance of nostalgic ritual in Scandinavia: The Disney Christmas Show.
AB - The paper seeks to promote a sociological understanding of the current wave of nostalgic expressions haunting late-modern Western culture and to re-evaluate the predominantly negative assessment of nostalgia. Filling two gaps in the existing research on nostalgia, the authors wish (1) to reintegrate into the phenomenon its experiential and collective dimensions and (2) to propose a theoretical sociological framework capable of analysing nostalgic ritual. In the first part of the paper, we discuss different approaches to the phenomenon of nostalgia. Second, we delve into the complex emotional and experiential aspects of the phenomenon and distil three different types of nostalgia. Third, seeking inspiration from Émile Durkheim and Randall Collins, we scrutinise the common collective characteristics of these different types of nostalgia. Arguing that Collins remains too interactionist in his approach to ritual, we seek to erect a theoretical framework apt for articulating mediated forms of nostalgic ritual. Fourth, we use our theoretical framework to analyse a well-known instance of nostalgic ritual in Scandinavia: The Disney Christmas Show.
KW - collectivity
KW - Collins
KW - digital methodology
KW - Durkheim
KW - irony
KW - mediation
KW - nostalgia
KW - ritual
U2 - 10.1177/0001699316659321
DO - 10.1177/0001699316659321
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85019003386
VL - 60
SP - 158
EP - 175
JO - Acta Sociologica
JF - Acta Sociologica
SN - 0001-6993
IS - 2
ER -
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