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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 sciences and humanities.
Contents
List of Contributors x
Introduction 1
Mark D. Jacobs and Nancy Weiss Hanrahan
PART I PROBLEMS OF THEORY AND METHOD 15
1 Structure, Culture and Agency 17
Margaret S. Archer
2 Culture and Cognition 35
Albert J. Bergesen
3 Difference and Cultural Systems: Dissonance in Three Parts 48
Nancy Weiss Hanrahan
PART II CULTURAL SYSTEMS 63
4 Culture in Global Knowledge Societies: Knowledge Cultures and Epistemic Cultures 65
Karin Knorr Cetina
5 Media Culture(s) and Public Life 80
Ronald N. Jacobs
6 "Religion as a Cultural System": Theoretical and Empirical Developments Since Geertz 97
Rhys H. Williams
7 Aesthetic Uncertainty: The New Canon? 114
Vera L. Zolberg
8 Pragmatics of Taste 131
Antoine Hennion
PART III EVERYDAY LIFE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING 145
9 Music and Social Experience 147
Tia DeNora
10 Consumer Culture 160
Daniel Thomas Cook
11 Fame and Everyday Life: The "Lottery Celebrities" of Reality TV 176
Andrea L. Press and Bruce A. Williams
12 Labor for Love: Rethinking Class and Culture in the Case of Single Motherhood 190
Maria Kefalas
PART IV IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE 205
13 New Developments in Class and Culture 207
David Halle and L. Frank Weyher
14 Sexuality and Religion: Negotiating Identity Differences 220
Michele Dillon
15 Race after the Cultural Turn 234
Orville Lee
PART V COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND CULTURAL AMNESIA 251
16 Collective Memory: Why Culture Matters 253
Barry Schwartz, Kazuya Fukuoka, and Sachiko Takita-Ishii
17 Counter-Memories of Terrorism: The Public Inscription of a Dramatic Past 272
Anna Lisa Tota
18 Museums and the Constitution of Culture 286
Jan Marontate
19 Dilemmas of the Witness 302
Robin Wagner-Pacifici
PART VI THE CULTURE OF INSTITUTIONS 315
20 Professions as Disciplinary Cultures 317
Magali Sarfatti Larson
21 Everyday Life and the Constitution of Legality 332
Susan S. Silbey
22 The Discourses of Welfare and Welfare Reform 346
John W. Mohr
23 The Culture of Savings and Loan Scandal in the No-Fault Society 364
Mark D. Jacobs
PART VII THE CULTURE OF CITIZENSHIP: LOCAL, NATIONAL, GLOBAL 381
24 Civic Culture at the Grass Roots 383
Paul Lichterman
25 Public Vocabularies of Religious Belief: Explicit and Implicit Religious Discourse in the American Public Sphere 398
John H. Evans
26 Democracy and Globalization in the Global Economy 412
Diana Crane
27 The Autonomy of Culture and the Invention of the Politics of Small Things: 1968 Revisited 428
Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
28 Toward a Nonculturalist Sociology of Culture: On Class and Status in Globalizing Capitalism 444
Nancy Fraser
Bibliography 460
Index 500
