Publications
(*= equal authorship)
Academic Monograph:
Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel. 2017. Princeton University Press
Edited Volume:
Childress, Clayton*, and Craig Rawlings* (Eds.). 2021. “Measure Mohr Culture.” Poetics 88.
Textbook:
Croteau, David R.*, William D. Hoynes*, and Clayton Childress*. 2021. Media/Society:
Technology, Industry, Content, and Users (7th edition). SAGE Publishing.
Articles:
Childress, Clayton, Jaishree Nayyar^, and Ikee Gibson^. 2024. “Tokenism and its long-term consequences: Evidence from the literary field” American Sociological Review 89(1): 31-59.
Rawlings, Craig*, and Clayton Childress*. 2024. “The polarization of popular culture: Tracing the size, shape, and depth of the oil spill” Social Forces
Childress, Clayton. 2023. "Bringing computation in into cultural theory: Four good reasons (and one bad one)." New Literary History 54(1): 975-983.
Silver, Daniel*, Clayton Childress*, Monica Lee, Adam Slez, and Fábio Dias. 2022. “Balancing conventionality in an online music market.” American Journal of Sociology 128(1): 224-286.
Rawlings, Craig M.*, and Clayton Childress*. 2021. “Schemas, interactions, and objects in meaning making.” Sociological Forum 36(1): 1446-1477.
Clayton Childress*, Shyon Bauman*, Craig M. Rawlings*, and Jean-Francois Nault*. 2021. “Genres, objects, and the contemporary expression of higher-status tastes.” Sociological Science 8: 230-264.
Nault, Jean-Francois *, Shyon Bauman*, Clayton Childress*, and Craig Rawlings.* 2021. “From omnivore to snob: The social positioning of taste between and within music genres.” European Journal of Cultural Studies 24(3): 717-740.
Childress, Clayton, Abigail Borja Calonga, and Erik Schneiderhan. 2020. “Beyond triangulation: Reconstructing Mandela’s writing life through propulsive facilitation at the archive.” Qualitative Sociology 43(3): 367-384.
Rawlings, Craig M.*, and Clayton Childress*. 2019. "Emergent meanings: Reconciling dispositional and situational accounts of meaning-making from cultural objects." American Journal of Sociology 124(6): 1763-1809.
Childress, Clayton, and Jean-Francois Nault. 2019. "Encultured biases: The role of products in pathways to inequality." American Sociological Review 84(1): 115-141.
Gerber, Alison*, and Clayton Childress*. 2017. “The economic world obverse: Finding freedom through markets after arts education.” American Behavioral Scientist 61(12): 1532-1554.
Gerber, Alison, and Clayton Childress. 2017. “I don’t make objects, I make projects: Selling thing and selling selves in contemporary artmaking.” Cultural Sociology 11(2): 234-254.
Childress, Clayton*, Craig M. Rawlings*, and Brian Moeran. 2017. “Publishers, authors, and texts: The process of cultural consecration in prize evaluation.” Poetics 60: 48-61.
Silver, Dan, Monica Lee, and C. Clayton Childress. 2016. “Genre Complexes in Popular Music.” Plos One.
Childress, C. Clayton. 2015. “Regionalism and the publishing class: conflicted isomorphism and negotiated identity in a nested field of American publishing.” Cultural Sociology 9(3): 346-381.
Childress, C. Clayton and Alison Gerber. 2015. “What's a creative writing MFA for?: The uses of a 'useless' credential in the literary field.” Professions and Professionalization 5(2): 1-16.
Maghbouleh, Neda, C. Clayton Childress and Carlos Alamo. 2015. “Our Table Factory, Inc..: Learning Marx through Role Play” LATISS: Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences 8(2): 5-28.
Nathaus, Klaus, and C. Clayton Childress. 2013. “The production of culture perspective in historical research: integrating the study of the production, reception and meaning of symbolic objects.” Studies in Contemporary History 10(1): 1-16.
Childress, C. Clayton. 2012. “Decision making, market logic, and the rating mindset: negotiating BookScan in the field of U.S. trade publishing,” European Journal of Cultural Studies, 15(5): 604-620.
Childress, C. Clayton and Noah E. Friedkin. 2012. "Cultural production and consumption: the social construction of meaning in book clubs," American Sociological Review 77(1): 45-68.
Childress, C. Clayton. 2011. “Evolutions in the literary field: the co-constitutive forces of cognitions, institutions, and networks,” Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung 36(3): 115-135.
Childress, C. Clayton. 2011. “What’s the matter with Jarrettsville? Genre classification as an opportunistic construct," Journal of Business Anthropology.
-Expanded version in Brian Moeran & Bo Christensen, Exploring Creativity:
Evaluation Practices in Innovation, Design, and the Arts. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge
University Press.
Other Publications:
Rawlings, Craig M.*, and Clayton Childress*. 2021. “Measure Mohr Culture.” (Introductory essay for Poetics special issue of the same name.)
Clayton Childress. 2021. “Objects of affectation” (book review for Materializing Difference). British Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12821
Clayton Childress. 2021. “Storytelling is big business” (package book review for Ascent to Glory and The Hollywood Jim Crow). Public Books.
Clayton Childress. 2020. “The Politics of the Book: A Study on the Materiality of Ideas” (book review). Contemporary Sociology 49(5): 467-468.
Clayton Childress. 2020. “A battle of the ages” (book review of Lopes (2019) Art Rebels). Symbolic Interaction 43(3): 569-571
Clayton Childress. 2020. “Review: Writers’ Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age.” University of Toronto Quarterly 88(3): 165-166.
Clayton Childress*, Jennifer Lena*, and Craig Rawlings.* 2019. “Memorial: A Conversation on John Mohr.” Section Culture (newsletter for the culture of ASA) 31(2).
Clayton Childress. 2019. “Review: Gone Home: Race and Roots Through Appalachia.” Cultural Sociology 13(4): 532-534.
Clayton Childress. 2017. “Are cultural objects free floating signifiers? Some potential problems for our studies of evaluation and meaning.” Consume This! (Blog for the ASA Consumers & Consumption section). Dec. 1, 2017.
Clayton Childress. 2017. “Five amazing book to read this summer.” The Conversation. July 13, 2017.
Clayton Childress. 2017. “Cultural appropriation and the whiteness of book publishing.” The Conversation. June
27, 2017.
Clayton Childress and Josee Johnston. 2017. “Canadian economic sociology: What is it, and how is it distinct? Three Canadian economic sociologists explain.” Acccounts – ASA Economic Sociology Section Newsletter XVI(3): 25-32.
Clayton Childress. 2017. “Independent bookstores are back.” Guest-post on Orgtheory.com Blog. March 30,
2017.
A.K.M. Skarpelis, and Clayton Childress. 2016. “The 2016 Junior Theorists’ Symposium” Perspectives
(newsletter for the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association) 38(2): 16-18.
Anna Skarpelis, and Clayton Childress. 2016. “10th Annual Junior Theorists Symposium Recap”SectionCulture: ASA Sociology of Culture Newsletter 28(3): 9.
Childress, C. Clayton. 2015. “Session review: evolving meanings and messages in organizational settings.”SectionCulture: ASA Sociology of Culture Newsletter 27(2): 15; 32
Childress, C. Clayton 2014. “What production studies can learn from consumption studies,” (feature article) Consumed: Newsletter of the American Sociological Association Consumers & Consumption Section 1(1): 8-10; 15.
Childress, C. Clayton. 2012. "Book Review for Merchants of Culture. The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century," Journal of Business Anthropology.
Childress, C. Clayton. 2012. "All media are social," Contexts: Understanding People in Their Social Worlds 11(1):55-57.
Childress, C. Clayton. 2009. "Book Review for Changing Bodies: Habit, Crisis and Creativity," Teaching Sociology 37:417-18.
Childress, C. Clayton. 2007. "The golem & the liar: narrative and truth in war storytelling," Poets Against War, featured article, Spring 2007.
Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel. 2017. Princeton University Press
Edited Volume:
Childress, Clayton*, and Craig Rawlings* (Eds.). 2021. “Measure Mohr Culture.” Poetics 88.
Textbook:
Croteau, David R.*, William D. Hoynes*, and Clayton Childress*. 2021. Media/Society:
Technology, Industry, Content, and Users (7th edition). SAGE Publishing.
Articles:
Childress, Clayton, Jaishree Nayyar^, and Ikee Gibson^. 2024. “Tokenism and its long-term consequences: Evidence from the literary field” American Sociological Review 89(1): 31-59.
Rawlings, Craig*, and Clayton Childress*. 2024. “The polarization of popular culture: Tracing the size, shape, and depth of the oil spill” Social Forces
Childress, Clayton. 2023. "Bringing computation in into cultural theory: Four good reasons (and one bad one)." New Literary History 54(1): 975-983.
Silver, Daniel*, Clayton Childress*, Monica Lee, Adam Slez, and Fábio Dias. 2022. “Balancing conventionality in an online music market.” American Journal of Sociology 128(1): 224-286.
Rawlings, Craig M.*, and Clayton Childress*. 2021. “Schemas, interactions, and objects in meaning making.” Sociological Forum 36(1): 1446-1477.
Clayton Childress*, Shyon Bauman*, Craig M. Rawlings*, and Jean-Francois Nault*. 2021. “Genres, objects, and the contemporary expression of higher-status tastes.” Sociological Science 8: 230-264.
Nault, Jean-Francois *, Shyon Bauman*, Clayton Childress*, and Craig Rawlings.* 2021. “From omnivore to snob: The social positioning of taste between and within music genres.” European Journal of Cultural Studies 24(3): 717-740.
Childress, Clayton, Abigail Borja Calonga, and Erik Schneiderhan. 2020. “Beyond triangulation: Reconstructing Mandela’s writing life through propulsive facilitation at the archive.” Qualitative Sociology 43(3): 367-384.
Rawlings, Craig M.*, and Clayton Childress*. 2019. "Emergent meanings: Reconciling dispositional and situational accounts of meaning-making from cultural objects." American Journal of Sociology 124(6): 1763-1809.
Childress, Clayton, and Jean-Francois Nault. 2019. "Encultured biases: The role of products in pathways to inequality." American Sociological Review 84(1): 115-141.
Gerber, Alison*, and Clayton Childress*. 2017. “The economic world obverse: Finding freedom through markets after arts education.” American Behavioral Scientist 61(12): 1532-1554.
Gerber, Alison, and Clayton Childress. 2017. “I don’t make objects, I make projects: Selling thing and selling selves in contemporary artmaking.” Cultural Sociology 11(2): 234-254.
Childress, Clayton*, Craig M. Rawlings*, and Brian Moeran. 2017. “Publishers, authors, and texts: The process of cultural consecration in prize evaluation.” Poetics 60: 48-61.
Silver, Dan, Monica Lee, and C. Clayton Childress. 2016. “Genre Complexes in Popular Music.” Plos One.
Childress, C. Clayton. 2015. “Regionalism and the publishing class: conflicted isomorphism and negotiated identity in a nested field of American publishing.” Cultural Sociology 9(3): 346-381.
Childress, C. Clayton and Alison Gerber. 2015. “What's a creative writing MFA for?: The uses of a 'useless' credential in the literary field.” Professions and Professionalization 5(2): 1-16.
Maghbouleh, Neda, C. Clayton Childress and Carlos Alamo. 2015. “Our Table Factory, Inc..: Learning Marx through Role Play” LATISS: Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences 8(2): 5-28.
Nathaus, Klaus, and C. Clayton Childress. 2013. “The production of culture perspective in historical research: integrating the study of the production, reception and meaning of symbolic objects.” Studies in Contemporary History 10(1): 1-16.
Childress, C. Clayton. 2012. “Decision making, market logic, and the rating mindset: negotiating BookScan in the field of U.S. trade publishing,” European Journal of Cultural Studies, 15(5): 604-620.
Childress, C. Clayton and Noah E. Friedkin. 2012. "Cultural production and consumption: the social construction of meaning in book clubs," American Sociological Review 77(1): 45-68.
Childress, C. Clayton. 2011. “Evolutions in the literary field: the co-constitutive forces of cognitions, institutions, and networks,” Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung 36(3): 115-135.
Childress, C. Clayton. 2011. “What’s the matter with Jarrettsville? Genre classification as an opportunistic construct," Journal of Business Anthropology.
-Expanded version in Brian Moeran & Bo Christensen, Exploring Creativity:
Evaluation Practices in Innovation, Design, and the Arts. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge
University Press.
Other Publications:
Rawlings, Craig M.*, and Clayton Childress*. 2021. “Measure Mohr Culture.” (Introductory essay for Poetics special issue of the same name.)
Clayton Childress. 2021. “Objects of affectation” (book review for Materializing Difference). British Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12821
Clayton Childress. 2021. “Storytelling is big business” (package book review for Ascent to Glory and The Hollywood Jim Crow). Public Books.
Clayton Childress. 2020. “The Politics of the Book: A Study on the Materiality of Ideas” (book review). Contemporary Sociology 49(5): 467-468.
Clayton Childress. 2020. “A battle of the ages” (book review of Lopes (2019) Art Rebels). Symbolic Interaction 43(3): 569-571
Clayton Childress. 2020. “Review: Writers’ Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age.” University of Toronto Quarterly 88(3): 165-166.
Clayton Childress*, Jennifer Lena*, and Craig Rawlings.* 2019. “Memorial: A Conversation on John Mohr.” Section Culture (newsletter for the culture of ASA) 31(2).
Clayton Childress. 2019. “Review: Gone Home: Race and Roots Through Appalachia.” Cultural Sociology 13(4): 532-534.
Clayton Childress. 2017. “Are cultural objects free floating signifiers? Some potential problems for our studies of evaluation and meaning.” Consume This! (Blog for the ASA Consumers & Consumption section). Dec. 1, 2017.
Clayton Childress. 2017. “Five amazing book to read this summer.” The Conversation. July 13, 2017.
Clayton Childress. 2017. “Cultural appropriation and the whiteness of book publishing.” The Conversation. June
27, 2017.
Clayton Childress and Josee Johnston. 2017. “Canadian economic sociology: What is it, and how is it distinct? Three Canadian economic sociologists explain.” Acccounts – ASA Economic Sociology Section Newsletter XVI(3): 25-32.
Clayton Childress. 2017. “Independent bookstores are back.” Guest-post on Orgtheory.com Blog. March 30,
2017.
A.K.M. Skarpelis, and Clayton Childress. 2016. “The 2016 Junior Theorists’ Symposium” Perspectives
(newsletter for the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association) 38(2): 16-18.
Anna Skarpelis, and Clayton Childress. 2016. “10th Annual Junior Theorists Symposium Recap”SectionCulture: ASA Sociology of Culture Newsletter 28(3): 9.
Childress, C. Clayton. 2015. “Session review: evolving meanings and messages in organizational settings.”SectionCulture: ASA Sociology of Culture Newsletter 27(2): 15; 32
Childress, C. Clayton 2014. “What production studies can learn from consumption studies,” (feature article) Consumed: Newsletter of the American Sociological Association Consumers & Consumption Section 1(1): 8-10; 15.
Childress, C. Clayton. 2012. "Book Review for Merchants of Culture. The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century," Journal of Business Anthropology.
Childress, C. Clayton. 2012. "All media are social," Contexts: Understanding People in Their Social Worlds 11(1):55-57.
Childress, C. Clayton. 2009. "Book Review for Changing Bodies: Habit, Crisis and Creativity," Teaching Sociology 37:417-18.
Childress, C. Clayton. 2007. "The golem & the liar: narrative and truth in war storytelling," Poets Against War, featured article, Spring 2007.