Matters of Culture
Cultural Sociology in Practice

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Part of Cambridge Cultural Social Studies

Editors:
Roger Friedland, University of California, Santa Barbara
John Mohr, University of California, Santa Barbara

Roger Friedland, John W. Mohr, Orlando Patterson, John R. Hall, Mark A. Schneider, Richard D. Hecht, Eviatar Zerubavel, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Nancy Fraser, Steven Seidman, Simonetta Falasca Zamponi, Denise D. Bielby, William T. Bielby, Magali Sarfatti Larson, Harvey Molotch, Jon D. Cruz

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Date Published: July 2004
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521795456

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American sociology is in the midst of a cultural turn. Where sociologists once spurned culture, today they embrace and explore it, seeking to understand the construction of social forms and the way culture matters. Problems of meaning, discourse, aesthetics, value, textuality, form and narrativity, topics traditionally within the humanists' purview, have come to the fore as sociologists increasingly emphasize the role of meanings, symbols, cultural frames and cognitive schema in their theorizations of social process and institution. Matters of Culture, first published in 2004, is an introduction to some of the best theorizing in cultural sociology, focusing in particular on questions of power, the sacred and cultural production. With a major theoretical introduction that lays out the internal structure of the field and its relation to cultural studies and contributions from leading academics Matters of Culture offers students and professors alike a representative range of the types of cultural sociological analysis available.
- Interdisciplinary, links humanities and social sciences together
- Presents current state of the art theorizing on the topic of cultural analysis and cultural studies
- High profile authors from field of sociology and elsewhere
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Product details
- Date Published: July 2004
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521795456
- length: 426 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 153 x 26 mm
- weight: 0.57kg
- contains: 6 b/w illus. 2 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. The cultural turn in American sociology Roger Friedland and John Mohr
Part I. The Place of Culture:
2. Culture and continuity: causal structures in socio-cultural persistence Orlando Patterson
3. Theorizing hermeneutic cultural history John R. Hall
4. Cultural studies as fin-de-siècle culture Mark A. Schneider
Part II. Sacred and Profane:
5. Private devotions and the sacred heart of Elvis: the Durkheimians and the (re)turn of the sacred Richard D. Hecht
6. The social marking of the past: toward a socio-semiotics of memory Eviatar Zerubavel
7. On the social construction of moral universals: the 'Holocaust' from war crimes to trauma drama Jeffrey C. Alexander
Part III. Culture and Power:
8. Social justice in the age of identity politics: redistribution, recognition, and participation Nancy Fraser
9. Are we all in the closet? Notes towards a sociological and cultural turn in queer theory Steven Seidman
10. Why (not) Foucault? Reflections on power, fascism and aesthetics Simonetta Falasca Zamponi
Part IV. Products and Production of Culture:
11. Audience aesthetics and popular culture Denise D. Bielby and William T. Bielby
12. Grounding the postmodern: a story of empirical research on fuzzy concepts Magali Sarfatti Larson
13. How art works: form and function in the stuff of life Harvey Molotch
14. Ethnosympathy: reflections on an American dilemma Jon D Cruz.
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Editors
Roger Friedland, University of California, Santa Barbara
John Mohr, University of California, Santa Barbara
Contributors
Roger Friedland, John W. Mohr, Orlando Patterson, John R. Hall, Mark A. Schneider, Richard D. Hecht, Eviatar Zerubavel, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Nancy Fraser, Steven Seidman, Simonetta Falasca Zamponi, Denise D. Bielby, William T. Bielby, Magali Sarfatti Larson, Harvey Molotch, Jon D. Cruz