"Cultural Sociology radiates with the vitality of today's cultural analysis. The selections and editor's
notes offer a mapping of the field that will ehlp students and scholars alike find their ways."
-- John R. Hall, University of California at Davis
Submitted By Publisher, June, 2003
Summary
Cultural Sociology collects 31 seminal essays by renowned social thinkers that introduce cultural sociology
to an emerging generation of students and scholars.
Table of Contents
Part I: Analyzing Culture in Society: Key Ideas:
1. The Diversity of Cultures
2. The Metropolis and Mental Life
3. The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
4. Center and Periphery
5. Base and Superstructure
6. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture
7. Cultural Power
Part II: Cultural Repertoires: Identities and Practices:
8. Boundary Work: Sculpting Home and Work
9. Corporate Culture
10. Symbolic Boundaries and Status
11. Symbolic Exclusion and Musical Dislikes
12. Raced Ways of Seeing
13. "Close to Home": The Work of Avoiding Politics
14. How Culture Works: Perspectives from Media Studies on the Efficacy of Symbols
Part III: Cultural Production: Institutional Fields:
15. Market Structure, the Creative Process, and Popular Culture: Toward an Organizational Reinterpretation of
Mass-Culture Theory
16. Why 1955? Explaining the Advent of Rock Music
17. Art Worlds
18. American Character and the American Novel: An Expansion of Reflection Theory in the Sociology of Literature
19. Behind the Postmodern Façade: Architectural Change in Late Twentieth-Century America
20. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Commemorating a Difficult Past
Part IV: Cultural Frameworks: Categories, Genre, and Narrative:
21. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life
22. The Discourse of American Civil Society: A New Proposal for Cultural Studies
23. Cultural Form and Political Meaning: State-Subsidized Theater, Ideology, and the Language of Style in Fascist
Italy
24. Deciphering Violence: The Cognitive Structure of Right and Wrong
25. Civil Society and Crisis: Culture, Discourse, and the Rodney King Beating
Part V: Social Change and Cultural Innovation:
26. Constructing the Public Good: Social Movements and Cultural Resources
27. The Search for Political Community: American Activists Reinventing Commitment
28. Cultural Power and Social Movements
29. A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation
30. Communities of Discourse: Ideology and Social Structure in the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and European
Socialism
31. Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
