Sociology on Culture

Because the sociology of culture has grown so much and cultural studies have proliferated so widely over the past quarter-century, there has been no easy way to obtain an informed introduction to the myriad issues at stake. Now,Sociology on Cultureoffers a wide-ranging and probing overview of sociological approaches to culture, their major arguments, and their findings. The book's discussions--of topics ranging from medieval theater to the Internet, across a variety of societies--are informed by approaches from interpretive sociology and symbolic interactionism, to the Frankfurt school and Foucault.