Handbook of Cultural Sociology

Herausgeber: Hall, John R; Lo, Ming-Cheng; Grindstaff, Laura

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Produktbeschreibung

The Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary scholarship in sociology and related disciplines focused on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With 65 essays written by scholars from around the world, the book draws diverse approaches to cultural sociology into a dialogue that charts new pathways for research on culture in a global era.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 720
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 175mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1247g
• ISBN-13: 9780415540124
• ISBN-10: 0415540127
• Artikelnr.: 35056003

Autorenporträt

John R. Hall is Professor of Sociology at the University of California - Davis. His published works include Apocalypse: From Antiquity to the Empire of Modernity (Polity, 2009), Visual Worlds (Routledge, 2005, with co-editors), Sociology on Culture (Routledge, 2003, with co-authors), and Cultures of Inquiry (Cambridge University Press, 1999). Laura Grindstaff is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California - Davis. She is the author of the award-winning Money Shot: Trash, Class, and the Making of TV Talk Shows (University of Chicago Press, 2002) and has published articles on various aspects of popular culture from reality programming to cheerleading. Ming-Cheng Lo is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California - Davis. She is the author of Doctors within Borders: Profession, Ethnicity and Modernity in Colonial Taiwan (University of California Press, 2002). She has published various articles on the cultural processes of political and medical institutions.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Culture
lifeworlds and globalization
John R. Hall
Laura Grindstaff
and Ming-Cheng Lo Part I: Sociological Programs of cultural analysis 1. The Strong Program: origins
achievements
and prospects
Jeffrey C. Alexander and Philip Smith 2. 'Culture Studies' and the culture complex
Tony Bennett 3. The subaltern
the postcolonial
and cultural sociology
Raka Ray and Smitha Radhakrishnan 4. The cultural turn: language
globalization
and media
Mark Poster 5. Media evolution and cultural change
Joshua Meyrowitz 6. Re-imagining critique in cultural sociology
Nancy Weiss Hanrahan and Sarah S. Amsler Part II: Theories and methodologies in cultural analysis 7. Sociology and cultural studies: an interrupted dialogue
Nick Couldry 8. Lost in translation: feminist media studies in the new millennium
Suzanna Danuta Walters 9. What is 'the relative autonomy of culture'?
Jeffrey K. Olick 10. The cultural sociological experience of cultural objects
Robin Wagner-Pacifici 11. Formal modes of culture
John W. Mohr and Craig M. Rawlings 12. Discourse and narrative
Tammy Smith 13. The mechanisms of cultural reproduction: explaining the puzzle of persistence
Orlando Patterson Part III: Aesthetics
ethics
and cultural legitimacy 14. Social aesthetics
Ben Highmore 15. History
sublime
terror: notes on culture's failure and the social catastrophe
Gene Ray 16. Modern and postmodern
Peter Beilharz 17. New sociological narratives of morality under modernity: from subtraction to multiplicity
Mary Jo Neitz
Kevin McElmurry
and Daniel Winchester 18. Demystifying authenticity in the sociology of culture
David Grazian 19. Carnival culture
Karen Bettez Halnon Part IV: Individuals/groups/identities/and performances 20. Group cultures and subcultures
Gary Fine 21. Culture and self
Gary Gregg 22. From public multiculturalism to private multiculturality?
Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain 23. Bodies
beauty
and fashion
Maxine Leeds Craig 24. Gender performance: cheerleaders
drag kings
and the rest of us
Joshua Gamson and Laura Grindstaff 25. Rituals
repertoires
and performances in post-modernity: a cultural sociological account
Ronald N. Jacobs Part V: Culture and stratification 26. Cultural capital and tastes: the persistence of Distinction
David Wright 27. Access to pleasure: aesthetics
social inequality
and the structure of culture production
Ann Swindler 28. Status distinctions and boundaries
Murray Milner
Jr. 29. Culture and stratification
Omar Lizardo 30. The conundrum of race in sociological analyses of culture
Alford A. Young
Jr. 31. Culture: liquid-modern adventures of an idea
Zygmunt Bauman Part VI: Making/using culture 32. Environment and culture
Trevor Hogan
Divya Anand
and Kirsten Henderson 33. Culture and the build environment: between meaning and money
David Gartman 34. The rise and fall of cyberspace
or
how cyberspace turned inside out
Martin Hand 35. Public institutions of 'high' culture
Victoria D. Alexander 36. Contemporary art and cultural complexity: the case of Chelsea
David Halle and Kim Robinson 37. Pop culture institutions: from production to aesthetics
Marshall Battani 38. The rise of new amateurs: popular music
digital technology
and the fate of cultural production
Nick Prior 39. Consumption and critique
Alan Warde Part VII: Cultures of work and professions 40. Work cultures
Robin Leidner 41. Cultures of service
Eileen M. Otis 42. Cultures of carework
carework across cultures
Pei-Chia Lan 43. Science cultures
Alex Preda 44. Medical cultures
Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good and Seth Hannah 45. Legal culture and cultures of legality
Susan S. Silbey Part VIII: Political cultures 46. Making things political
Nina Eliasoph and Paul Lichterman 47. The cultural constitution of publics
Yifat Gutman and Jeffrey C. Goldfarb 48. Cultures of democracy: a civil-society approach
Ming-Cheng Lo 49. National culture
national identity
and the culture(s) of the nation
Geneviève Zubrzycki 50. Nationalism as the cultural foundation of modern experience
Liah Greenfeld and Eric Malczewski 51. The cultural of the political: towards a cultural sociology of state formation
Xiaohong Xu and Philip Gorski 52. The 'soul of the citizen
' the invention of the social: governing mentalities
Jackie Orr Part IX: Global cultures
global processes 53. Consumerism and self-representation in an era of global capitalism
Gary G. Hamilton and Donald Fels 54. The political economy of cultural production
Vincent Mosco 55. Analyzing culture through globalization
Carla Freeman 56. Globalization and cultural production
Denise D. Bielby 57. Media technologies
cultural mobility
and the nation-state
Scott McQuire 58. Tourism and Culture
Kevin Fox Gotham Part X: Cultural processes and change 59. Culture and collective memory: comparative perspectives
Barry Schwartz 60. From collective memory to commemoration
Hiro Saito 61. Movement cultures
Francesca Polletta 62. Cultural movements and the sociology of culture: the case of political consumerism
Sam Binkley 63. Migration and cultures
Yen Le Espiritu 64. Cultural diffusion
Elihu Katz 65. Cosmopolitanism and the clash of civilizations
Bryan S. Turner