Long

Gebundenes Buch

From Sociology to Cultural Studies

Beschreibung

The question of how to understand culture and society has engaged passionate interest across the social sciences and humanities in recent decades. From Sociology to Cultural Studies brings together exciting new empirical work on topics from jazz, architecture, grassroots social movements, inner-city schools, and the television viewing culture to international relations and black women's sexuality - as well as more programmatic theoretical and methodological reflections - to address this issue. Placing sociologists of culture such as Michael Schudson, Michele Lamont, Steven Seidman, Judith Stacey, and Herman Gray in conversation with scholars from anthropology, history, literary studies and "cultural studies" more broadly defined, the volume suggest ways that cultural analysis can become more socially grounded, while also challenging sociology to learn from analytic perspectives developed outside the discipline.

Autor

Elizabeth Long is Associate Professor of Sociology at Rice University. A former chair of the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association, she is author of The American Dream and the Best Selling Novel (Blackwell), and is currently completing work on Reading Together, Women's Reading Groups and the Making of America

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 542
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1204g
• ISBN-13: 9781577180128
• ISBN-10: 1577180127
• Artikelnr.: 21630876

Rezensionen

"Steve Redhead's book is a collection of pieces that show 'popularcultural studies' (as he calls it) at their most lucid and at thesame time their most frustrating. The collection maps the shiftform subculture- fairly rigid oppositional groups responding todominant cultural trends-to clubcultures which are apparently morediverse, fragmentary and consumerist. This shift is framed withinthe move from 'moralistic individualism to hedonisticindividualism'. as such the book maps Redhead's unique blend ofsocio-legal critique, demonstrating the centrality of the popularin the regulation and legitimation of society." Bookends1998.

"Combining a thoughtful assessment of the intellectual roots ofcultural studies with an impassioned inquiry

into its futuredirections, this original and intellectually vibrant collection ofessays is an important intervention in the field. By rigorouslyinsisting on the importance of questions about social structure andsocial process to cultural studies' past, the authors ofthese essays demonstrate how a more socially oriented approach canrevivify the tradition and strengthen its capacity fir practicaland political intervention in the future. A 'must read'for anyone interested in the work that cultural studies can do."- Janice Radway, Duke University

"In this exciting collection, Long has drawn together scholarswhose work represents the potential shared concerns andcharacteristics of sociology and cultural studies: that ofresponding to changes in the world and maintaining a sense of aproject for a more egalitarian society. It will be of interest tosociologists and cultural studies scholars and students alike as aset of invigorating challenges to both fields." - AnnGray, University of Birmingham, UK