Cultural sociology

(Blackwell readers in sociology)List of Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgements.Introduction: Culture and Cultural Sociology: Lyn Spillman.Part I: Analyzing Culture in Society: Key Ideas:1. The Diversity of Cultures: Ruth Benedict.2. The Metropolis and Mental Life: Georg Simmel.3. The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception: Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno.4. Center and Periphery: Edward Shils.5. Base and Superstructure: Raymond Williams.6. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture: Clifford Geertz.7. Cultural Power: Pierre Bourdieu.Part II: Cultural Repertoires: Identities and Practices:8. Boundary Work: Sculpting Home and Work: Christena E. Nippert-Eng (Illinois Institute of Technology).9. Corporate Culture: Gideon Kunda (Tel Aviv University).10. Symbolic Boundaries and Status: Michele Lamont (Princeton University).11. Symbolic Exclusion and Musical Dislikes: Bethany Bryson (University of Virginia).12. Raced Ways of Seeing: Darnell Hunt (University of Southern California).13. "Close to Home": The Work of Avoiding Politics: Nina Eliasoph (University of Wisconsin-Madison).14. How Culture Works: Perspectives from Media Studies on the Efficacy of Symbols: Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego).Part III: Cultural Production: Institutional Fields:15. Market Structure, the Creative Process, and Popular Culture: Toward an Organizational Reinterpretation of Mass-Culture Theory: Paul DiMaggio (Princeton University).16. Why 1955? Explaining the Advent of Rock Music: Richard A. Peterson (Vanderbilt University).17. Art Worlds: Howard S. Becker.18. American Character and the American Novel: An Expansion of Reflection Theory in the Sociology of Literature: Wendy Griswold (Northwestern University).19. Behind the Postmodern Facade: Architectural Change in Late Twentieth-Century America: Magali Sarfatti Larson (University of Urbino) 20. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Commemorating a Difficult Past: Robin Wagner-Pacifici (Swarthmore College) and Barry Schwartz (University of Georgia).Part IV: Cultural Frameworks: Categories, Genre, and Narrative:21. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life: Eviatar Zerubavel (Rutgers University).22. The Discourse of American Civil Society: A New Proposal for Cultural Studies: Jeffrey C. Alexander (University of California, Los Angeles) and Philip Smith (University of Queensland).23. Cultural Form and Political Meaning: State-Subsidized Theater, Ideology, and the Language of Style in Fascist Italy: Mabel Berezin (University of California, Los Angeles).24. Deciphering Violence: The Cognitive Structure of Right and Wrong: Karen Cerulo (Rutgers University).25. Civil Society and Crisis: Culture, Discourse, and the Rodney King Beating: Ronald N. Jacobs (University at Albany, State University of New York).Part V: Social Change and Cultural Innovation:26. Constructing the Public Good: Social Movements and Cultural Resources: Rhys H. Williams (Southern Illinois University).27. The Search for Political Community: American Activists Reinventing Commitment: Paul Lichterman (University of Wisconsin, Madison).28. Cultural Power and Social Movements: Ann Swidler (University of California, Berkeley).29. A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation: William H. Sewell, Jr. (University of Chicago).30. Communities of Discourse: Ideology and Social Structure in the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and European Socialism: Robert Wuthnow (Princeton University).31. Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism: Fredric Jameson (Duke University). Index.