The Blackwell companion to the sociology of culture / edited by Mark D. Jacobs and Nancy Weiss Hanrahan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jacobs, Mark D., 1947-

Hanrahan, Nancy Weiss, 1954-

Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Series:

Blackwell companions to sociology ; 12.

Blackwell companions to sociology ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (522 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of original, state-of-the-art essays by prominent international scholars covers the most important issues comprising the sociology of culture. Provides an invaluable reference resource to all interested in the cultural structures and processes that animate contemporary life Contains 27 essays on the most important issues comprising the sociology of culture, including art, science, religions, race, class, gender, collective memory, institutions, and citizenship Reflects and analyzes the "cultural turn" that has transformed scholarship in the social scienc

Contents:

PT. 1. PROBLEMS OF THEORY AND METHOD. Structure, culture and agency / Margaret S. Archer

Culture and cognition / Albert J. Bergesen

Difference and cultural systems: dissonance in three parts / Nancy Weiss Hanrahan

PT. 2. CULTURAL SYSTEMS. Culture in global knowledge societies: knowledge cultures and epistemic cultures / Karin Knorr Cetina

Media culture(s) and public life / Ronald N. Jacobs

"Religion as a cultural system": theoretical and empirical developments since Geertz / Rhys H. Williams

Aesthetic uncertainty: the new canon? / Vera L. Zolberg

Pragmatics of taste / Antoine Hennion

PT. 3. EVERYDAY LIFE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING. Music and social experience / Tia DeNora

Consumer culture / Daniel Thomas Cook

Fame and everyday life: the "lottery celebrities" of reality TV / Andrea L. Press and Bruce A. Williams

Labor for love: rethinking class and culture in the case of single motherhood / Maria Kefalas

PT. 4. IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE. New developments in class and culture / David Halle and L. Frank Weyher

Sexuality and religion: negotiating identity differences / Michele Dillon

Race after the cultural turn / Orville Lee

PT. 5. COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND CULTURAL AMNESIA. Collective memory: why culture matters / Barry Schwartz, Kazuya Fukuoka, and Sachiko Takita-Ishii

Counter-memories of terrorism: the public inscription of a dramatic past / Anna Lisa Tota

Museums and the constitution of culture / Jan Marontate

Dilemmas of the witness / Robin Wagner-Pacifici

PT. 6. THE CULTURE OF INSTITUTIONS. Professions as disciplinary cultures / Magali Sarfatti Larson

Everyday life and the constitution of reality / Susan S. Silbey

The discourses of welfare and welfare reform / John W. Mohr

The culture of savings and loan scandal in the no-fault society / Mark D. Jacobs

PT. 7. THE CULTURE OF CITIZENSHIP: LOCAL, NATIONAL, GLOBAL. Civic culture at the grass roots / Paul Lichterman

Public vocabularies of religious belief: explicit and implicit religious discourse in the American public sphere / John H. Evans

Democracy and globalization in the global economy / Diana Crane

The autonomy of culture and the invention of the politics of small things: 1968 revisited / Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Toward a nonculturalist sociology of culture: on class and status in globalizing capitalism / Nancy Fraser.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [460]-499) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-19887-7

1-78034-176-8

9786610198870

1-4051-6672-X

0-470-99674-9

1-4051-3728-2

OCLC:

184983660