The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Culture

Copyright © 2005 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd

The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Culture

Editor(s): Mark D. Jacobs, Nancy Weiss Hanrahan

Published Online: 30 NOV 2007

Print ISBN: 9780631231745

Online ISBN: 9780470996744

DOI: 10.1002/9780470996744

About this Book

Product Information

About The Product

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.

Table of contents

    1. You have free access to this content
      Frontmatter (pages i–xiv)

    1. Introduction (pages 1–13)

      Mark D. Jacobs and Nancy Weiss Hanrahan

  3. Part I: Problems of Theory and Method

    1. Chapter 1

      Structure, Culture and Agency (pages 17–34)

      Margaret S. Archer

    2. Chapter 2

      Culture and Cognition (pages 35–47)

      Albert J. Bergesen

    3. Chapter 3

      Difference and Cultural Systems: Dissonance in Three Parts (pages 48–62)

      Nancy Weiss Hanrahan

  4. Part II: Cultural Systems

    1. Chapter 4

      Culture in Global Knowledge Societies: Knowledge Cultures and Epistemic Cultures (pages 65–79)

      Karin Knorr Cetina

    2. Chapter 5

      Media Culture(s) and Public Life (pages 80–96)

      Ronald N. Jacobs

    3. Chapter 6

      “Religion as a Cultural System”: Theoretical and Empirical Developments Since Geertz (pages 97–113)

      Rhys H. Williams

    4. Chapter 7

      Aesthetic Uncertainty: The New Canon? (pages 114–130)

      Vera L. Zolberg

    5. Chapter 8

      Pragmatics of Taste (pages 131–144)

      Antoine Hennion

  5. Part III: Everyday Life and the Construction of Meaning

    1. Chapter 9

      Music and Social Experience (pages 147–159)

      Tia DeNora

    2. Chapter 10

      Consumer Culture (pages 160–175)

      Daniel Thomas Cook

    3. Chapter 11

      Fame and Everyday Life: The “Lottery Celebrities” of Reality TV (pages 176–189)

      Andrea L. Press and Bruce A. Williams

    4. Chapter 12

      Labor for Love: Rethinking Class and Culture in the Case of Single Motherhood (pages 190–203)

      Maria Kefalas

  6. Part IV: Identity and Difference

    1. Chapter 13

      New Developments in Class and Culture (pages 207–219)

      David Halle and L. Frank Weyher

    2. Chapter 14

      Sexuality and Religion: Negotiating Identity Differences (pages 220–233)

      Michele Dillon

    3. Chapter 15

      Race after the Cultural Turn (pages 234–250)

      Orville Lee

  7. Part V: Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia

    1. Chapter 16

      Collective Memory: Why Culture Matters (pages 253–271)

      Barry Schwartz, Kazuya Fukuoka and Sachiko Takita-Ishii

    2. Chapter 17

      Counter-Memories of Terrorism: The Public Inscription of a Dramatic Past (pages 272–285)

      Anna Lisa Tota

    3. Chapter 18

      Museums and the Constitution of Culture (pages 286–301)

      Jan Marontate

    4. Chapter 19

      Dilemmas of the Witness (pages 302–313)

      Robin Wagener Pacifici

  8. Part VI: The Culture of Institutions

    1. Chapter 20

      Professions as Disciplinary Cultures (pages 317–331)

      Magali Sarfatti Larson

    2. Chapter 21

      Everyday Life and the Constitution of Legality (pages 332–345)

      Susan S. Silbey

    3. Chapter 22

      The Discourses of Welfare and Welfare Reform (pages 346–363)

      John W. Mohr

    4. Chapter 23

      The Culture of Savings and Loan Scandal in the No-Fault Society (pages 364–380)

      Mark D. Jacobs

  9. Part VII: The Culture of Citizenship - Local, National, Global

    1. Chapter 24

      Civic Culture at the Grass Roots (pages 383–397)

      Paul Lichterman

    2. Chapter 25

      Public Vocabularies of Religious Belief: Explicit and Implicit Religious Discourse in the American Public Sphere (pages 398–411)

      John H. Evans

    3. Chapter 26

      Democracy and Globalization in the Global Economy (pages 412–427)

      Dana Crane

    4. Chapter 27

      The Autonomy of Culture and the Invention of the Politics of Small Things: 1968 Revisited (pages 428–442)

      Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

    5. Chapter 28

      Toward a Nonculturalist Sociology of Culture: On Class and Status in Globalizing Capitalism (pages 444–459)

      Nancy Fraser

    1. You have free access to this content
      Bibliography (pages 460–499)

    1. You have free access to this content
      Index (pages 500–503)

SEARCH