Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 503 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Blackwell companions to sociology ; 12 |
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Blackwell companions to sociology ; 12.
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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 |
Summary |
This anthology of original, state-of-the-art essays by prominent international scholars covers the most important topics and issues comprising the sociology of culture |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 460-499) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Culture
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Culture
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Cultuur.
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Cultuursociologie.
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Culture -- Aspect sociologique.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Jacobs, Mark D., 1947-
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Hanrahan, Nancy Weiss, 1954-
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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LC no. |
2004011575 |
ISBN |
1405137282 |
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9781405137287 |
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9780631231745 |
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0631231749 |
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9781405166720 |
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140516672X |
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9780470996744 |
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0470996749 |
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1280198877 |
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9781280198878 |
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