Анализ Социальных Сетей в Исторической Социологии Культуры (На Материале Советской Детской Литературы 1954—1957 Годов) (Analysis of Social Networks in the Historical Sociology of Culture (On the Basis of Soviet Children's Literature of 1954-1957))

45 Pages Posted: 7 Jun 2017

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Maria Maiofis

Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA) - School of Public Policy

Ilya Kukulin

Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA) - School of Public Policy

Date Written: June 6, 2017

Abstract

Russian Abstract: Предлагаемая работа обосновывает применимость метода анализа социальных сетей (social networks analysis) в исторической социологии литературы. В новейших исследованиях по социологии культуры основное внимание обращается не на социальные связи между отдельными авторами, редакторами, переводчиками или читателями (social networks), а на сети коммуникаций в литературных сообществах или сети трансляции текстов (по аналогии с social media в Интернете). С нашей точки зрения, коммуникация – лишь частный случай социального взаимодействия в сетевых структурах, изучение которых позволяет увидеть принципиально новые аспекты создания и рецепции литературных произведений. Предмет исследования в этой работе – резкая трансформация социальных связей между детскими писателями, критиками и литературными институциями в 1954—57 годах, приведшая к появлению «оттепельных» направлений в детской литературе. Изучение этого частного случая помогает увидеть более общие закономерности институционального и «сетевого» развития (networking) позднесоветской культуры и понять специфику советских сетевых структур по сравнению с изученными в англоязычной социологической литературе.

English Abstract: This paper is aimed at grounding of applicability of social network analysis to historical sociology of literature. In modern studies in cultural sociology, the scholars’ attention is paid mostly not to social networks that connect authors, editors, translators, and readers, but to the communication channels or the networks for texts’ widespread – in other words, to the phenomena, resembling the social media on the Internet. In our opinion, communication here is only particular case in the wide range of social interactions in literary communities. Study of these communities from the viewpoint of social network analysis allows to discern the new aspects of literary works’ production and reception, and to shed new light on the well-known episodes of literary history. The subject of the case study in this paper is the quick transformation of the social ties between the Soviet children’s writers, critics, and literary institutions in 1954-57. This transformation led to the total reshaping of landscape of the Soviet children’s literature. This case study gives ground for consideration the deeper principles that regulated networking and institutional dynamics of the late-Soviet culture, as well as the specific features of the Soviet cultural networks if comparing them with the samples discussed in English-language sociological scholarship.

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Suggested Citation

Maiofis, Maria and Kukulin, Ilya, Анализ Социальных Сетей в Исторической Социологии Культуры (На Материале Советской Детской Литературы 1954—1957 Годов) (Analysis of Social Networks in the Historical Sociology of Culture (On the Basis of Soviet Children's Literature of 1954-1957)) (June 6, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2981561 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2981561

Maria Maiofis (Contact Author)

Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA) - School of Public Policy ( email )

Russia

Ilya Kukulin

Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA) - School of Public Policy ( email )

Russia

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