XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 15-21, 2018)

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What Art Can Tell Us about Society?

RC37 Sociology of Arts (host committee)

Language: English

This session proposes a debate about the state of art of research in sociology and social sciences that have their principal focus in the analyses of art works as a way to achieve social knowledge about societies or social groups.

The focus is to discuss new art objects and subjects that appears with the adventure of new technologies creating a entire new “social world” inside the new medias, that defy the traditional sociological possibilities and strategies in the analyses of art works in their epistemological, methodological or analytical problems and approaches as they alludes to the observer various possibilities of meaning constitution and interpretation about new (and old) “realities” and new forms of art and social organization.