{"product_id":"the-blackwell-companion-to-the-sociology-of-culture-isbn-9780631231745","title":"The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Culture","description":"This collection of original, state-of-the-art essays by prominent international scholars covers the most important issues comprising the sociology of culture. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul class=\"noindent\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides an invaluable reference resource to all interested in the cultural structures and processes that animate contemporary life\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains 27 essays on the most important issues comprising the sociology of culture, including art, science, religions, race, class, gender, collective memory, institutions, and citizenship\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReflects and analyzes the “cultural turn” that has transformed scholarship in the social sciences and humanities.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Contributors x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark D. Jacobs and Nancy Weiss Hanrahan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I PROBLEMS OF THEORY AND METHOD 15\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Structure, Culture and Agency 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMargaret S. Archer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Culture and Cognition 35\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlbert J. Bergesen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Difference and Cultural Systems: Dissonance in Three Parts 48\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNancy Weiss Hanrahan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II CULTURAL SYSTEMS 63\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Culture in Global Knowledge Societies: Knowledge Cultures and Epistemic Cultures 65\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKarin Knorr Cetina\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Media Culture(s) and Public Life 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRonald N. Jacobs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 \"Religion as a Cultural System\": Theoretical and Empirical Developments Since Geertz 97\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRhys H. Williams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Aesthetic Uncertainty: The New Canon? 114\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVera L. Zolberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Pragmatics of Taste 131\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAntoine Hennion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III EVERYDAY LIFE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING 145\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Music and Social Experience 147\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTia DeNora\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Consumer Culture 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaniel Thomas Cook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Fame and Everyday Life: The \"Lottery Celebrities\" of Reality TV 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrea L. Press and Bruce A. Williams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Labor for Love: Rethinking Class and Culture in the Case of Single Motherhood 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaria Kefalas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART IV IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE 205\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 New Developments in Class and Culture 207\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Halle and L. Frank Weyher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Sexuality and Religion: Negotiating Identity Differences 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichele Dillon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Race after the Cultural Turn 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrville Lee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART V COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND CULTURAL AMNESIA 251\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Collective Memory: Why Culture Matters 253\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarry Schwartz, Kazuya Fukuoka, and Sachiko Takita-Ishii\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Counter-Memories of Terrorism: The Public Inscription of a Dramatic Past 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnna Lisa Tota\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Museums and the Constitution of Culture 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJan Marontate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Dilemmas of the Witness 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobin Wagner-Pacifici\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART VI THE CULTURE OF INSTITUTIONS 315\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Professions as Disciplinary Cultures 317\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMagali Sarfatti Larson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Everyday Life and the Constitution of Legality 332\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan S. Silbey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 The Discourses of Welfare and Welfare Reform 346\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn W. Mohr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 The Culture of Savings and Loan Scandal in the No-Fault Society 364\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark D. Jacobs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART VII THE CULTURE OF CITIZENSHIP: LOCAL, NATIONAL, GLOBAL 381\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Civic Culture at the Grass Roots 383\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Lichterman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Public Vocabularies of Religious Belief: Explicit and Implicit Religious Discourse in the American Public Sphere 398\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn H. Evans\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Democracy and Globalization in the Global Economy 412\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiana Crane\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 The Autonomy of Culture and the Invention of the Politics of Small Things: 1968 Revisited 428\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJeffrey C. Goldfarb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Toward a Nonculturalist Sociology of Culture: On Class and Status in Globalizing Capitalism 444\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNancy Fraser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 460\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 500\u003c\/p\u003e \"A worthy handbook for cultural sociologists and those interested in the sociology of culture.\" (\u003ci\u003eCultural Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e, November 2008)  \u003cb\u003eMark D. Jacobs\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eScrewing the System and Making It Work: Juvenile Justice in the No-Fault Society\u003c\/i\u003e (1990), as well as articles in such journals as \u003ci\u003eAdministration and Society\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society\u003c\/i\u003e. He served from 1994 to 1998 on the Executive Council of RC37 of the International Sociological Association. He has co-organized two international conferences at George Mason University for the Section on the Sociology of Culture of the American Sociological Association, and has edited \u003ci\u003eCulture\u003c\/i\u003e for that section since 2000.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNancy Weiss Hanrahan\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Women’s Studies Research and Resource Center at George Mason University. Her scholarly work, which addresses issues in cultural theory and criticism, is informed by her professional experience in the music business. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eDifference in Time: A Critical Theory of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (2000) and a contributor to \u003ci\u003eCritical Theory: Diverse Objects, Diverse Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e (2003) and \u003ci\u003eRethinking Social Transformation\u003c\/i\u003e (2001).\u003c\/p\u003e  This collection of original, state-of-the-art essays by prominent international scholars covers the most important issues comprising the sociology of culture. Heightened recognition of the ways culture inflects politics and economics, social relations and personal identities has transformed scholarship in the social sciences and humanities.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e reflects on this “cultural turn” by providing an invaluable reference resource to all interested in the cultural structures and processes that animate contemporary life. The book includes such topics as art, science, religion, race, class, gender, collective memory, institutions, and citizenship. This is the first-ever collection of original, synthetic essays that forms a comprehensive overview of the sociology of culture.  “The sociology of culture has been among the fastest growing fields in the discipline. 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