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The production perspective posits that the content of formally produced symbol systems is shaped by the social context of their production, distribution and use. I draw on the insights of the 'production of culture' perspective introduced by Richard Peterson in 1974 to analyze the development and influence of that same perspective. Using a combination of intellectual history and citation analysis,...
This essay analyzes the contributions of Richard A. Peterson to the sociology of the arts. Using an approach that converges with his orientation to the arts, it contextualizes his contribution within the state of American sociology, which, at the time, was reluctant to pay serious attention to that field. The institutional climate itself is shown to converge with American ambivalence toward the...
Without using Goffman's well-known theory of impression management in any conscious way, Richard Peterson, in his Creating country music: Fabricating authenticity (1997), demonstrated that impression management was a central process in creating country music. The present study explicitly links Peterson's ideas about the fabrication of authenticity to Goffman's Presentation of self in everyday life...
Within the discipline of sociology, approaches to studying culture have shifted markedly over the last forty years. In this article, we review these changes as well as Richard Peterson's contributions to the field, arguing that his work played a vital role in developing the study of culture as a legitimate subject. While studies of culture were marginal during sociology's structural period of the...
Peterson has made two important contributions to the sociology of organizations. First, through his work on the 'production of culture' model and on the fabrication of authenticity, Peterson has pioneered strategies for studying industries. Through his production of culture approach, Peterson brought the sociology of organizations into the study of culture. Peterson's analysis of the formation...
This article discusses the work of Richard A. Peterson in the field of cultural consumption. Peterson studied patterns of cultural choice and coined the term 'cultural omnivore', which has become part of the standard vocabulary of cultural scholars. After a brief overview of the current state of the art, and Peterson's contribution to it, the author attempts to provide a description of who the cultural...
To trace the importance of Richard Peterson for theories of culture in effect this article maps developments over the past thirty years. Initially, Peterson introduced the production-of-culture approach as a grounded theoretical perspective, rather than a formal theory. Theoretically, this perspective was undergirded by assumptions about culture as genetic code. From this point of departure, Peterson...
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