Cultural Sociology

Cultural Sociology collects 31 seminal essays by renowned social thinkers that introduce cultural sociology to an emerging generation of students and scholars.

List of Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Culture and Cultural Sociology: Lyn Spillman. Part I: Analyzing Culture in Society: Key Ideas:. 1. The Diversity of Cultures: Ruth Benedict. 2. The Metropolis and Mental Life: Georg Simmel. 3. The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception: Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno. 4. Center and Periphery: Edward Shils. 5. Base and Superstructure: Raymond Williams. 6. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture: Clifford Geertz. 7. Cultural Power: Pierre Bourdieu. Part II: Cultural Repertoires: Identities and Practices:. 8. Boundary Work: Sculpting Home and Work: Christena E. Nippert-Eng (Illinois Institute of Technology). 9. Corporate Culture: Gideon Kunda (Tel Aviv University). 10. Symbolic Boundaries and Status: Michèle Lamont (Princeton University). 11. Symbolic Exclusion and Musical Dislikes: Bethany Bryson (University of Virginia). 12. Raced Ways of Seeing: Darnell Hunt (University of Southern California). 13. "Close to Home": The Work of Avoiding Politics: Nina Eliasoph (University of Wisconsin-Madison). 14. How Culture Works: Perspectives from Media Studies on the Efficacy of Symbols: Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego). Part III: Cultural Production: Institutional Fields:. 15. Market Structure, the Creative Process, and Popular Culture: Toward an Organizational Reinterpretation of Mass-Culture Theory: Paul DiMaggio (Princeton University). 16. Why 1955? Explaining the Advent of Rock Music: Richard A. Peterson (Vanderbilt University). 17. Art Worlds: Howard S. Becker. 18. American Character and the American Novel: An Expansion of Reflection Theory in the Sociology of Literature: Wendy Griswold (Northwestern University). 19. Behind the Postmodern Façade: Architectural Change in Late Twentieth-Century America: Magali Sarfatti Larson (University of Urbino). 20. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Commemorating a Difficult Past: Robin Wagner-Pacifici (Swarthmore College) and Barry Schwartz (University of Georgia). Part IV: Cultural Frameworks: Categories, Genre, and Narrative:. 21. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life: Eviatar Zerubavel (Rutgers University). 22. The Discourse of American Civil Society: A New Proposal for Cultural Studies: Jeffrey C. Alexander (University of California, Los Angeles) and Philip Smith (University of Queensland). 23. Cultural Form and Political Meaning: State-Subsidized Theater, Ideology, and the Language of Style in Fascist Italy: Mabel Berezin (University of California, Los Angeles). 24. Deciphering Violence: The Cognitive Structure of Right and Wrong: Karen Cerulo (Rutgers University). 25. Civil Society and Crisis: Culture, Discourse, and the Rodney King Beating: Ronald N. Jacobs (University at Albany, State University of New York). Part V: Social Change and Cultural Innovation:. 26. Constructing the Public Good: Social Movements and Cultural Resources: Rhys H. Williams (Southern Illinois University). 27. The Search for Political Community: American Activists Reinventing Commitment: Paul Lichterman (University of Wisconsin, Madison). 28. Cultural Power and Social Movements: Ann Swidler (University of California, Berkeley). 29. A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation: William H. Sewell, Jr. (University of Chicago). 30. Communities of Discourse: Ideology and Social Structure in the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and European Socialism: Robert Wuthnow (Princeton University). 31. Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism: Fredric Jameson (Duke University). Index.