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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext This collection of original, state-of-the-art essays by prominent international scholars covers the most important issues comprising the sociology of culture. Heightened recognition of the ways culture inflects politics and economics, social relations and personal identities has transformed scholarship in the social sciences and humanities. The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Culture reflects on this "cultural turn" by providing an invaluable reference resource to all interested in the cultural structures and processes that animate contemporary life. The book includes such topics as art, science, religion, race, class, gender, collective memory, institutions, and citizenship. This is the first-ever collection of original, synthetic essays that forms a comprehensive overview of the sociology of culture. Zusammenfassung This collection of original! state--of--the--art essays by prominent international scholars covers the most important issues comprising the sociology of culture. It includes such topics as art! science! religion! race! class! gender! collective memory! institutions! and citizenship. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors x Introduction 1 Mark D. Jacobs and Nancy Weiss Hanrahan PART I PROBLEMS OF THEORY AND METHOD 15 1 Structure, Culture and Agency 17 Margaret S. Archer 2 Culture and Cognition 35 Albert J. Bergesen 3 Difference and Cultural Systems: Dissonance in Three Parts 48 Nancy Weiss Hanrahan PART II CULTURAL SYSTEMS 63 4 Culture in Global Knowledge Societies: Knowledge Cultures and Epistemic Cultures 65 Karin Knorr Cetina 5 Media Culture(s) and Public Life 80 Ronald N. Jacobs 6 "Religion as a Cultural System": Theoretical and Empirical Developments Since Geertz 97 Rhys H. Williams 7 Aesthetic Uncertainty: The New Canon? 114 Vera L. Zolberg 8 Pragmatics of Taste 131 Antoine Hennion PART III EVERYDAY LIFE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING 145 9 Music and Social Experience 147 Tia DeNora 10 Consumer Culture 160 Daniel Thomas Cook 11 Fame and Everyday Life: The "Lottery Celebrities" of Reality TV 176 Andrea L. Press and Bruce A. Williams 12 Labor for Love: Rethinking Class and Culture in the Case of Single Motherhood 190 Maria Kefalas PART IV IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE 205 13 New Developments in Class and Culture 207 David Halle and L. Frank Weyher 14 Sexuality and Religion: Negotiating Identity Differences 220
