TY - JOUR A1 - Nathaus, Klaus A1 - Childress, C. Clayton T1 - The Production of Culture Perspective in Historical Research. Integrating the Production, Meaning and Reception of Symbolic Objects T2 - Zeithistorische Forschungen – Studies in Contemporary History N2 - Historians have analyzed films, novels, records, theater plays etc. primarily in reference to their meaning and reception. This article makes a case for moving the focus to the actors, structures and processes that shape symbolic objects before these are consumed. To this end, we present a framework established in US sociology to study the fabrication, distribution and evaluation of symbolic content. We discuss the production of culture perspective as an approach that appears to be particularly useful for historical research and, by reviewing selected works from the sociological literature, demonstrate how this perspective can be applied to phenomena like popular music and literary fiction. We focus on genres as bundles of conventions as one lens through which historians may analyze the creation, reproduction, evaluation and consumption of culture. Y1 - 2013 UR - https://zeitgeschichte-digital.de/doks/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1559 UR - https://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/1-2013/4433 VL - 10 IS - 1 SP - 89 EP - 100 PB - ZZF – Centre for Contemporary History: Zeithistorische Forschungen CY - Potsdam ER -