Victoria D. Alexander
Victoria Dean Alexander (born October 28, 1959 ) is a British university lecturer ( Senior Lecturer ) for art sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London .
After studying at Princeton and Stanford , she taught as Associate Professor of Sociology in the PhD program at Harvard University . In 1996 she became a member of the Sociology Faculty at the University of Surrey , and in 2015 she moved to Goldsmiths College .
She became known with her book Sociology of Arts , which ties in with Howard S. Becker's theory of art sociology and differentiates it from the art worlds . In doing so, she examines the relationship between art and society on the basis of a “cultural diamond”, which looks at this relationship through the prisms of art producers, art mediators and art consumers. In her sociological analysis she refrains from differentiating between high and popular art.
She is President of the European Sociological Association's Research Network on the Sociology of the Arts .
Fonts (selection)
- Museums and Money: The Impact of Funding on Exhibitions, Scholarship, and Management . Indiana University Press. Bloomington, IN 1996.
- Sociology of the Arts: Exploring Fine and Popular Forms . Blackwell, Oxford 2003.
- (with Marilyn Rueschemeyer) Art and the State: The Visual Arts in Comparative Perspective . Palgrave Macmillan, London 2005.
Web links
- Viktoria D. Alexander, Goldsmiths University of London
- Victoria D. Alexander, Sociological Research Online
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Alexander, Victoria D. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Alexander, Victoria Dean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British sociologist and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1959 |