The Blackwell Companion To The Sociology Of

This collection of original, state-of-the-art essays by prominent international scholars covers the most important issues comprising the sociology of culture. Provides an invaluable reference resource to all interested in the cultural structures and processes that animate contemporary life Contains 27 essays on the most important issues comprising the sociology of culture, including art, science, religions, race, class, gender, collective memory, institutions, and citizenship Reflects and analyzes the "cultural turn" that has transformed scholarship in the social sciences and humanities.

Mark D. Jacobs is Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason University. He is the author of Screwing the System and Making It Work: Juvenile Justice in the No-Fault Society (1990), as well as articles in such journals as Administration and Society and The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society. 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 Culture for that section since 2000.

Nancy Weiss Hanrahan 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 Difference in Time: A Critical Theory of Culture (2000) and a contributor to Critical Theory: Diverse Objects, Diverse Subjects (2003) and Rethinking Social Transformation (2001).

List of Contributors

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Introduction

1

(14)

Mark D. Jacobs and Nancy Weiss Hanrahan

PART I PROBLEMS OF THEORY AND METHOD

15

(48)

1 Structure, Culture and Agency

17

(18)

Margaret S. Archer

2 Culture and Cognition

35

(13)

Albert J. Bergesen

3 Difference and Cultural Systems: Dissonance in Three Parts

48

(17)

Nancy Weiss Hanrahan

PART II CULTURAL SYSTEMS

63

(82)

4 Culture in Global Knowledge Societies: Knowledge Cultures and Epistemic Cultures

65

(15)

Karin Knorr Cetina

5 Media Culture(s) and Public Life

80

(17)

Ronald N. Jacobs

6 "Religion as a Cultural System": Theoretical and Empirical Developments Since Geertz

97

(17)

Rhys H. Williams

7 Aesthetic Uncertainty: The New Canon?

114

(17)

Vera L. Zolberg

8 Pragmatics Of Taste

131

(16)

Antoine Hennion

PART III EVERYDAY LIFE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING

145

(60)

9 Music and Social Experience

147

(13)

Tia DeNora

10 Consumer Culture

160

(16)

Daniel Thomas Cook

11 Fame and Everyday Life: The "Lottery Celebrities" of Reality TV

176

(14)

Andrea L. Press and Bruce A. Williams

12 Labor for Love: Rethinking Class and Culture in the Case of Single Motherhood

190

(15)

Maria Kefalas

PART IV IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE

205

(46)

13 New Developments in Class and Culture

207

(13)

David Halle and L. Frank Weyher

14 Sexuality and Religion: Negotiating Identity Differences

220

(14)

Michele Dillon

15 Race after the Cultural Turn

234

(17)

Orville Lee

PART V COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND CULTURAL AMNESIA

251

(64)

16 Collective Memory: Why Culture Matters

253

(19)

Barry Schwartz, Kazuya Fukuoka, and Sachiko Takita-Ishii

17 Counter-Memories of Terrorism: The Public Inscription of a Dramatic Past

272

(14)

Anna Lisa Tota

18 Museums and the Constitution of Culture

286

(16)

Jan Marontate

19 Dilemmas of the Witness

302

(13)

Robin Wagner-Pacifici

PART VI THE CULTURE OF INSTITUTIONS

315

(66)

20 Professions as Disciplinary Cultures

317

(15)

Magali Sarfatti Larson

21 Everyday Life and the Constitution of Legality

332

(14)

Susan S. Silbey

22 The Discourses of Welfare and Welfare Reform

346

(18)

John W. Mohr

23 The Culture of Savings and Loan Scandal in the No-Fault Society

364

(17)

Mark D. Jacobs

PART VII THE CULTURE OF CITIZENSHIP: LOCAL, NATIONAL, GLOBAL

381

(79)

24 Civic Culture at the Grass Roots

383

(15)

Paul Lichterman

25 Public Vocabularies of Religious Belief: Explicit and Implicit Religious Discourse in the American Public Sphere

398

(14)

John H. Evans

26 Democracy and Globalization in the Global Economy

412

(16)

Diana Crane

27 The Autonomy of Culture and the Invention of the Politics of Small Things: 1968 Revisited

428

(16)

Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

28 Toward a Nonculturalist Sociology of Culture: On Class and Status in Globalizing Capitalism

444

(16)

Nancy Fraser

Bibliography

460

(40)

Index

500

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