Redaktion: Calhoun, Craig; Sennett, Richard

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Practicing Culture revitalizes the field of cultural sociology with an emphasis not on abstract theoretical debates but on showing how to put theoretical sources to work in empirical research. Each of the chapters in this book offer a provocative empirical case study of how culture works in practice and how practice makes and remakes culture. It is an essential tool for students and researchers of cultural theory, contemporary social theory and cultural sociology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134126101
• Artikelnr.: 38245319

Autorenporträt

Craig Calhoun is University Professor of Social Science at New York University and President of the Social Science Research Council. Richard Sennett is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics and is University Professor of the Humanities at New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. 'We Have Never Been German': The Economy of Digging in Russian
Kaliningrad 2. Practicing Poetry: A Career Without a Job 3. Hot Glass: The
Calorific Imagination of Practice in Glassblowing 4. State Power as Field
Work: Culture and Practice in the French Survey of Historic Landmarks 5.
New and Improved Nations: Branding National Identity 6. Facts in the City:
How London Accountants Simplify Decisions 7. Managing Doubt: Professional
Wrestling Jargon and the Making of 'Smart Fans' 8. Beauty at the Gallery:
Sentimental Education and Operatic Community in Contemporary Buenos Aires
9. The Erotic Life of Electric Hair Clippers: A Social History 10.
Practicing Authorship: The Case of Brecht's Plays