sociology of the artists is one of the subfields in the sociology of art which studies artists from at least two points of view. first, it studies individual, social and cultural characteristics of artists and the relationships of these factors to their tendencies towards becoming artist. second, it addresses the styles and contents prevailing in the artists’ work in a certain period of time an...

This paper aims to show the status of digital art in Iran and explain how the meaning of an artist has transformed in the digital age. The primary assumption of this paper is that the experience of digital art has again revived the collective experience in creating arts. Although, interactivity is considered to be the most important quality of digital art, their collective, collaborative and pr...

In a recent edition of this journal, Mannion and Braithwaite provide a succinct analysis of the emergence, and ultimately limited impact, of what they term the current ‘Safety I’ movement in healthcare. They describe the arc of this field from denial, through engagement via mechanisms and approaches imported from other industries, to the current situation where, despite ‘best efforts,’ error ra...

After a century of studies, there is no agreement on what it means to construct a sociology of music. From the beginning this " of " has been a place of tension, not of smooth coordination. If music has easily attracted social readings, there has been strong resistance to a systematic sociology of music whose aim would be to explain musical values or contents through reference to sociological f...