Cultural Sociology is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2016 SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence.  

They are:

• Nick Crossley and Wendy Bottero, Music Worlds and Internal Goods: The Role of Convention, 9 (1), 38

• Clémentine Beauvais, The ‘Mozart Effect’: A Sociological Reappraisal, 9 (2), 185 

• Ben Merriman, Duels in the European Novel: Honor, Reputation, and the Limits of a Bourgeois Form, 9 (2), 203  

• Arpad Szakolczai, The Theatricalisation of the Social: Problematising the Public Sphere, 9 (2), 220  

The editors shortlisted four articles from the wealth of research published in the journal in 2015 and we hope you enjoy reading the selected articles. The task of selecting the winning article now falls to a panel of judges drawn from the Cultural Sociology Editorial Board – look out for more news on this later in the year.