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Informationen zum Autor Lyn Spillman is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Nation and Commemoration: Celebrating National Identities in the United States and Australia (1997) and a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001.. Klappentext This book collects 31 path-breaking essays by classic and contemporary scholars to introduce cultural sociology to an emerging generation of students and to others unfamiliar with the field. A selection of foundational reflections and cutting-edge research is grouped into five core sections - key ideas, cultural repertoires, cultural production, cultural frameworks and social change. Essays cover a wide range of topics in such areas as work, inequality, political culture, and the arts, and treat many diverse aspects of contemporary culture, from television viewing to volunteering, from rock music to war memorials, from stories of violence to ideals of the public good. The editor's introduction provides an overview of the field, discussing the idea of culture, the development of cultural sociology in relation to other areas of sociology, and interdisciplinary influences from such fields as anthropology, literary criticism and cultural studies. Notes set each essay in a wider context and point to further reading. This is an essential resource and an important guide to this rapidly-expanding field. Zusammenfassung A collection of readings divided into five sections treating the most prominent ideas in the field of cultural sociology! examining different perspectives on meaning-making (cultural repertoires! cultural production! and cultural frameworks)! and discussing cultural innovation and social change. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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: Michèle 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 Façade: 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 (Swarthm...
