Network Effects: Betwixt and between

Betwixt and Between: Musical Taste Patterns and Audience Mobility

The inadequacy of the traditional highbrow-popular dichotomy as it has been applied to audiences is well emphasised by the subsidiary category of middlebrow. It provides a straightforward description for a zone between elite culture and entertainment that is in truth vastly more complex. In this article, three empirical research projects with connections to music are examined. Each classifies c...

Doctoral Dissertations as Liminal Journeys of theSelf: Betwixt and Between in Graduate Sociology Programs

A convention or (tacit) agreement betwixt us

The aim of this paper is to show that conventions are sources of tacit agreements. Such agreements are tacit in the sense that they are implicated by what the agents do (or forbear to do) though without that any communication between them be necessary. Conventions are sources of tacit agreements under two substantial assumptions: (1) that there is a salient interpretation, in some contexts, of ...

Betwixt and between: Role conflict, role ambiguity and role definition in project-based dual-leadership structures

Project-based organizations in the film industry usually have a dual-leadership structure, based on a division of tasks between the dual leaders - the director and the producer - in which the former is predominantly responsible for the artistic and the latter for the commercial aspects of the film. These organizations also have a role hierarchically below and between the dual leaders: the 1st a...

Culpability and Commonsense Justice: Lessons Learned Betwixt Murder and Madness