| Description |
xvi, 503 p. : ill. |
| Series |
Blackwell companions to sociology ; 12 |
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Blackwell companions to sociology ; 12.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [460]-499) and index. |
| Contents |
PT. 1. PROBLEMS OF THEORY AND METHOD. Structure, culture and agency / Margaret S. Archer -- Culture and cognition / Albert J. Bergesen -- Difference and cultural systems: dissonance in three parts / Nancy Weiss Hanrahan -- PT. 2. CULTURAL SYSTEMS. Culture in global knowledge societies: knowledge cultures and epistemic cultures / Karin Knorr Cetina -- Media culture(s) and public life / Ronald N. Jacobs -- "Religion as a cultural system": theoretical and empirical developments since Geertz / Rhys H. Williams -- Aesthetic uncertainty: the new canon? / Vera L. Zolberg -- Pragmatics of taste / Antoine Hennion -- PT. 3. EVERYDAY LIFE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING. Music and social experience / Tia DeNora -- Consumer culture / Daniel Thomas Cook -- Fame and everyday life: the "lottery celebrities" of reality TV / Andrea L. Press and Bruce A. Williams -- Labor for love: rethinking class and culture in the case of single motherhood / Maria Kefalas -- PT. 4. IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE. New developments in class and culture / David Halle and L. Frank Weyher -- Sexuality and religion: negotiating identity differences / Michele Dillon -- Race after the cultural turn / Orville Lee -- PT. 5. COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND CULTURAL AMNESIA. Collective memory: why culture matters / Barry Schwartz, Kazuya Fukuoka, and Sachiko Takita-Ishii -- Counter-memories of terrorism: the public inscription of a dramatic past / Anna Lisa Tota -- Museums and the constitution of culture / Jan Marontate -- Dilemmas of the witness / Robin Wagner-Pacifici -- PT. 6. THE CULTURE OF INSTITUTIONS. Professions as disciplinary cultures / Magali Sarfatti Larson -- Everyday life and the constitution of reality / Susan S. Silbey -- The discourses of welfare and welfare reform / John W. Mohr -- The culture of savings and loan scandal in the no-fault society / Mark D. Jacobs -- PT. 7. THE CULTURE OF CITIZENSHIP: LOCAL, NATIONAL, GLOBAL. Civic culture at the grass roots / Paul Lichterman -- Public vocabularies of religious belief: explicit and implicit religious discourse in the American public sphere / John H. Evans -- Democracy and globalization in the global economy / Diana Crane -- The autonomy of culture and the invention of the politics of small things: 1968 revisited / Jeffrey C. Goldfarb -- Toward a nonculturalist sociology of culture: on class and status in globalizing capitalism / Nancy Fraser. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Culture.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Jacobs, Mark D., 1947-
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Hanrahan, Nancy Weiss, 1954-
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0631231749 (hardback) |
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