The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value
The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value
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声望经济：奖品、奖项和文化价值的流通
DOI：
10.1007/s10824-006-9003-x
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
N. Wijnberg
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作者：
N. Wijnberg
James English是宾夕法尼亚大学的教授和英语系主任，他也是Mortar Board校友会杰出教师奖的共同获得者。然而，他并不满足于此，他写了一本关于文化奖项的书，试图阐明奖项的经济学，以及奖项如何嵌入服务于”文化价值流通”的交易网络中。它的范围很广，涵盖了从古典雅典到南非乡镇的文化奖项。它关注全球化，种族政治，以及艺术和观众体育之间的相似之处。它包含了许多关于许多奖项的非常有趣的轶事，并以一种平衡的方式讨论了这些轶事，有时接近于可能被描述为后政治正确的方式。它提出了三个相互联系和非常重要的观点，我们将很快讨论。它完全接受经济学是社会科学的女王，社会学，包括文化社会学，应该把自己看作是她卑微的仆人。这当然是布迪厄所采取的立场，他的影响，以及他的一些术语，弥漫在书中。事实上，文化奖项的主题非常适合布迪厄启发的方法，这当然是英语的成就的一部分，以令人信服的方式展示这一点。
James English is a Professor and Chair of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also was the Co-Recipient of the Mortar Board Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award. Not satisfied with this, however, he wrote a book about cultural awards in which he attempts to shed light upon the economics of awards and the way in which awards are embedded in a network of transactions that serve the" circulation of cultural value".There is much to be applauded in this book. It has a wide range, covering cultural awards from classical Athens to the South-African townships. It pays attention to globalization, racial politics, and the similarities between the arts and spectator sports. It contains many very interesting anecdotes about many awards, and discusses these anecdotes in a well-balanced way that sometimes comes close to what could possibly be described as post-political-correctness. It makes three intercon-nected and very important points that will be discussed shortly. It fully accepts that economics is queen of the social sciences and that sociology, including the sociology of culture, should consider itself her humble servant. This is of course the position taken by Bourdieu, and his influence, and some of his terminology, pervades the book. In fact, the subject of cultural prizes lends itself exceptionally well to a Bourdieu-inspired approach-and it certainly is part of English's achievement to show this so convincingly.