Handbook of cultural sociology

Online-Ressource (xxiii, 696 p)

Includes bibliographical references and index

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

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

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

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

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

48 Cultures of democracy: A civil-society approach

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