  This paper proposes a mixed-method socio-semantic network analysis of meaning
structures in practice. While social and institutional fields impose meaning
structures, to achieve practical goals field participants gather in groups and
locally produce idiocultures of their own. Such idiocultures are difficult to
capture structurally, hence, the impact of practice on meaning structures is
underrated. To account for this impact, we automatically map local meaning
structures - ensembles of semantic associations embedded in specific social
groups - to identify the focal elements of these meaning structures, and
qualitatively examine contextual usage of such elements. Employing a
combination of ethnographic and social network data on two St. Petersburg art
collectives, we find the seemingly field-imposed meaning structures to be
instantiated differently, depending on group practice. Moreover, we find
meaning structures to emerge from group practice and even change the field-wide
meaning structures.
