ISBN:
0415474450
,
0203891376
,
9780415474450
,
9780203891377
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxiii, 696 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge International Handbooks Ser
Series Statement:
Routledge international handbooks
Parallel Title:
Print version Handbook of Cultural Sociology
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Sociology
;
Culture
;
Culture
;
Electronic books
;
Sociology
Abstract:
Provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary scholarship in sociology and related disciplines focused on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. This book draws diverse approaches to cultural sociology into a dialogue that charts different pathways for research on culture in a global era
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Detailed contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction: Culture, lifeworlds, and globalization; Part I: Sociological programs of cultural analysis; 1 The Strong Program: Origins, achievements, and prospects; 2 Culture studies" and the culture complex; 3 The subaltern, the postcolonial, and cultural sociology; 4 The cultural turn: Language, globalization, and media; 5 Media evolution and cultural change; 6 Re-imagining critique in cultural sociology; Part II: Theories and methodologies in cultural analysis
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Sociology and cultural studies: An interrupted dialogue8 Lost in translation: Feminist media studies in the new millennium; 9 What is the relative autonomy of culture"?; 10 The cultural sociological experience of cultural objects; 11 Formal models of culture; 12 Discourse and narrative; 13 The mechanisms of cultural reproduction: Explaining the puzzle of persistence; Part III: Aesthetics, ethics, and cultural legitimacy; 14 Social aesthetics; 15 History, sublime, terror: Notes on culture's failure and the social catastrophe; 16 Modern and postmodern
Description / Table of Contents:
17 New sociological narratives of morality under modernity: From subtraction to multiplicity18 Demystifying authenticity in the sociology of culture; 19 Carnival culture; Part IV: Individuals and groups, identities and performances; 20 Group cultures and subcultures; 21 Culture and self; 22 From public multiculturalism to private multiculturality?; 23 Bodies, beauty, and fashion; 24 Gender performance: Cheerleaders, drag kings, and the rest of us; 25 Rituals, repertoires, and performances in post-modernity: A cultural sociological account; Part V: Culture and stratification
Description / Table of Contents:
26 Cultural capital and tastes: The persistence of Distinction27 Access to pleasure: Aesthetics, social inequality, and the structure of culture production; 28 Status distinctions and boundaries; 29 Culture and stratification; 30 The conundrum of race in sociological analyses of culture; 31 Culture: Liquid-modern adventures of an idea; Part VI: Making/using culture; 32 Environment and culture; 33 Culture and the built environment: Between meaning and money; 34 The rise and fall of cyberspace, or, how cyberspace turned inside out; 35 Public institutions of high" culture
Description / Table of Contents:
36 Contemporary art and cultural complexity: The case of Chelsea37 Pop culture institutions: From production to aesthetics; 38: The rise of the new amateurs: Popular music, digital technology, and the fate of cultural production; 39 Consumption and critique; Part VII: Cultures of work and professions; 40 Work cultures; 41 Cultures of service; 42 Cultures of carework, carework across cultures; 43 Science cultures; 44 Medical cultures; 45 Legal culture and cultures of legality; Part VIII: Political cultures; 46 Making things political; 47 The cultural constitution of publics
Description / Table of Contents:
48 Cultures of democracy: A civil-society approach
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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