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Informationen zum Autor John R. Hall is Professor of Sociology at the University of California - Davis. His published works include Apocalypse: From Antiquity to the Empire of Modernity (Polity, 2009), Visual Worlds (Routledge, 2005, with co-editors), Sociology on Culture (Routledge, 2003, with co-authors), and Cultures of Inquiry (Cambridge University Press, 1999). Laura Grindstaff is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California – Davis. She is the author of the award-winning Money Shot: Trash, Class, and the Making of TV Talk Shows (University of Chicago Press, 2002) and has published articles on various aspects of popular culture from reality programming to cheerleading. Ming-Cheng Lo is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California – Davis. She is the author of Doctors within Borders: Profession, Ethnicity and Modernity in Colonial Taiwan (University of California Press, 2002). She has published various articles on the cultural processes of political and medical institutions. Klappentext The Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary scholarship in sociology and related disciplines focused on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With 65 essays written by scholars from around the world, the book draws diverse approaches to cultural sociology into a dialogue that charts new pathways for research on culture in a global era. Zusammenfassung The Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary scholarship in sociology and related disciplines focused on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With sixty-five essays written by scholars from around the world, the book draws diverse approaches to cultural sociology into a dialogue that charts new pathways for research on culture in a global era. Contributing scholars address vital concerns that relate to classic questions as well as emergent issues in the study of culture. Topics include cultural and social theory, politics and the state, social stratification, community, aesthetics, lifestyle, and identity. In addition, the authors explore developments central to the constitution and reproduction of culture, such as power, technology, and the organization of work. This book is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in diverse subfields within Sociology, as well as Cultural Studies, Media and Communication, and Postcolonial Theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Culture, lifeworlds and globalization , John R. Hall, Laura Grindstaff, and Ming-Cheng Lo Part I: Sociological Programs of cultural analysis 1. The Strong Program: origins, achievements, and prospects, Jeffrey C. Alexander and Philip Smith 2. 'Culture Studies' and the culture complex, Tony Bennett 3. The subaltern, the postcolonial, and cultural sociology, Raka Ray and Smitha Radhakrishnan 4. The cultural turn: language, globalization, and media, Mark Poster 5. Media evolution and cultural change, Joshua Meyrowitz 6. Re-imagining critique in cultural sociology, Nancy Weiss Hanrahan and Sarah S. Amsler Part II: Theories and methodologies in cultural analysis 7. Sociology and cultural studies: an interrupted dialogue, Nick Couldry 8. Lost in translation: feminist media studies in the new millennium, Suzanna Danuta Walters 9. What is 'the relative autonomy of culture'?, Jeffrey K. Olick 10. The cultural sociological experience of cultural objects, Robin Wagner-Pacifici 11. Formal modes of culture, John W. Mohr and Craig M. Rawlings 12. Discourse and narrative, Tammy Smith 13. The mechanisms of cultural ...
