Handbook of Culture and Social Networks

Edited by Nick Crossley, Department of Sociology & Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis, School of Social Sciences, The University of Manchester and Paul Widdop, Sport Policy Unit, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

• Contents1 Introduction to Handbook of Culture and Social Networks 1Nick Crossley and Paul WiddopPART I THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS2 The culture/network interface 16Paul D. McLean and Elizabeth Arthur3 Templates of eventful action in social networks 28Robin Wagner-Pacifici and Ronald L. Breiger4 Networks, culture and inequality 40Paul DiMaggio5 Cultural tastes and everyday networks 54Omar Lizardo6 Economic networks and political culture 66Maurice Bokanga, Benjamin Rohr and John Levi Martin7 Interaction ritual, relational sociology, and spiraling evolutions 77Erika Summers-Effler, Joseph O’Donnell, and Pace T. WardPART II CULTURAL DOMAINS8 Networked musicking and music worlds 92Nick Crossley9 Networks and culture amongst non-human species 106Michael Chimento10 Sport social network analysis 121Paul Widdop11 Film networks 139Pete Jones and Katharina Burgdorf12 Scientific networks 154Elisa Bellotti and Alejandro Espinosa-Rada13 Theatre and networks 168Marco Serino14 Developing a career: networks and success in the photography world 179Katherine A. Giuffre15 Social media as a new performance space: reinventing the music worldand social networks 189Tugba Aydin Ozturk16 Contemporary art as a relational good 199Annatina Aerne17 Festivals, networks and communities 213David JarmanPART III NETWORKS AND MEANINGS18 Meaning structures 226Jan Fuhse19 Relational meaning in social network analysis 239Neha Gondal20 Socio-semantic networks 250Nikita Basov and Camille Roth21 Meaning flows in social networks 270Christine Moser

‘Social networks link the individual and the collective, but contextually so. This amazing collection of authors explores many contexts in which networks shape, and are shaped by, culture. A most meaningful read.’