Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology (eBook, ePUB)

2nd Edition
Redaktion: Grindstaff, Laura; Hall, John R.; Lo, Ming-Cheng M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This thoroughly updated edition provides an unparalleled overview of cutting-edge scholarship on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With 70 essays written by scholars from around the world, the handbook charts diverse new pathways for understanding culture in our global era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 712
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351974097
• Artikelnr.: 54672582

Autorenporträt

Laura Grindstaff is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis, and a faculty affiliate in Gender Studies, Performance Studies, and Cultural Studies. Her research and teaching focus on the cultural dimensions of sex/gender, race, and class inequality, with a particular emphasis on American media and popular culture. She is the author of The Money Shot: Trash, Class, and the Making of TV Talk Shows as well as numerous articles and essays on aspects of popular culture ranging from sports and cheerleading to reality TV and social media. Ming-Cheng M. Lo is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. Lo's research focuses on culture, illness experiences, and civic engagement. She is the author of Doctors within Borders: Profession, Ethnicity, and Modernity in Colonial Taiwan (University of California Press, 2002; Japanese edition, 2014). A recent series of articles addresses the roles of cultural capital and non-dominant cultural resources in health, healthcare, and environmental activism. John R. Hall is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and 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).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: culture, lifeworlds, and globalization (Laura Grindstaff,
Ming-Cheng M. Lo, and John R. Hall)Part I: Sociological programs of
cultural analysis1. The Strong Program in cultural sociology: meaning first
(Jeffrey C. Alexander and Philip Smith)2. "Culture studies" and the culture
complex (Tony Bennett)3. Sociologies of culture and cultural studies:
reflections on inceptions and futures (Jon Cruz)4. Lost in translation:
feminist cultural/media studies in the new millennium (Suzanna Danuta
Walters)5. The cultural turn: language, globalization, and media (Mark
Poster)6. Cultures of colonialism (Nicholas Wilson and Lucas Azambuja)7.
Critique and possibility in cultural sociology (Nancy Weiss Hanrahan and
Sarah S. Amsler)Part II: The place of "culture" in sociological analysis8.
What is "the relative autonomy of culture"? (Jeffrey K. Olick)9. Formal
models of culture (John W. Mohr and Craig M. Rawlings)10. Three
propositions toward a cultural sociology of climate change (Zeke Baker)11.
The sociological experience of cultural objects (Robin Wagner-Pacifici)12.
It goes without saying: imagination, inarticulacy, and materiality in
political culture (Chandra Mukerji)13. The mechanisms of cultural
reproduction: explaining the puzzle of persistence (Orlando Patterson)Part
III: Aesthetics, ethics, and cultural legitimacy14. Cultural traumas
(Giuseppe Sciortino)15, Modern and postmodern (Peter Beilharz)16. Social
aesthetics (Ben Highmore)17. From subtraction to multiplicity: new
sociological narrative