ISBN:
0631231749
Language:
English
Pages:
XVI, 503 S.
,
illustrations.
Edition:
1. publ.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Hoboken, NJ Wiley InterScience 2007 Online-Ressource Wiley Online Library
Series Statement:
Blackwell companions to sociology 12
Series Statement:
Blackwell companions to sociology 12
Series Statement:
Blackwell companions to sociology
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. The Blackwell companion to the sociology of culture
Keywords:
Culture
;
Culture Aspect sociologique
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Kultursoziologie
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 460-499) and index. - Print version record
,
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
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