Abstracts KE 2-3 [2013]

Nikos Panayotopoulos

Introduction to socioanalysis

This article attempts to present the principles of socioanalysis which, according to Pierre Bourdieu, as an accumulation of the results of a reflexivity on the tools and the acquis of both the objective or structural and of the analytical, clinical type approach, was enabled in the research which aimed at the exploration of the forms of suffering that the economic and social crisis produces, nowadays, in Greece. Part of the results of this research is presented in this issue.

Abstracts KE1 [2012]

Maria Vidali

The art of being an art lover

The rise and impact of the marketing process on the modus operandi of museums is increasingly regarded as a kind of natural expediency. To such an extent is this so that what is nowadays seen as the «modernization» debate on the future of museums −in the form of both public deliberations and discussions within the respective professional fields− concerns the way of enforcing such a process rather than the evaluation of its significance, role and repercussions. Much of the ongoing research in the field of the sociology, concerning cultural consumption, and museum attendance in particular, frequently supports the approach of an «administrative shakeup of museum policies» and of the managerial administration of museum organisation, thus contributing to the ratification of a new doxa –founded on a museum-centrism- that tends to predominate in the field of museum management. Exploiting the data of a comprehensive empirical survey on the Greek museum public and some critical theoretical work, the article attempts to put the relationship of sociology of cultural diffusion and sociology of education on a new basis.