The sociology of culture : emerging theoretical perspectives
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The sociology of culture : emerging theoretical perspectives
Blackwell, 1994
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-328) and index
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: hbk ISBN 9781557864628
Description
Published in collaboration with the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association, this volume brings together scholars of the field to map out the themes and perspectives which conjoin in the sociology of culture. Covering a wide range of subjects and a diversity of approaches, this volume demonstrates how far contemporary sociologists of culture have come in challenging the way that culture has been and is perceived within mainstream sociology. While the writers collected here in no way subscribe to a single approach, their ideas can be taken collectively (under the rubric of the "sociology of culture") as part of a larger project, synthesizing American and European perspectives, aimed at challenging current orthodoxies and rethinking the crucial category of "culture" in current social thought and research.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The Challenge of the Sociology of Culture to Sociology as a Discipline: Diana Crane 2. Mass Media and Social Integration: Michael Schudson 3. Culture and Politics: Theoretical Perspectives: Mabel Berezin 4. Identity, Stratification and Culture: Michele Lamont 5. Organizational Models of Culture: Cultural Ideals as Transmitted by Organizations: Frank R. Dobbin 6. The Production of Culture Today: Theory and Empirical Studies: Richard Peterson 7. The Use of Cultural Models in Historical Sociology: Ewa Morawska 8. The Current Status of Reception Theory: Andrea Press 9. Science and Art: Toward Theoretical Convergence?: Chandra Mukerji 10. Microsociology and the Sociology of Culture: Frameworks for Understanding Action: Steve Derne 11. Methodological Dilemmas in the Sociology of Culture: Anne Bowler 12. Making Sense with Things: The Sociology of Culture and the Art of Artefacts: David Brain.
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: pbk ISBN 9781557864635
Description
In this fascinating collection of essays, the 'fissured terrain' of the Sociology of Culture is charted as never before. Covering a wide range of subjects and a diversity of approaches, this volume demonstrates how far contemporaray sociologists of culture have come in challenging the way that culture has been and is perceived within mainstream sociology.
Table of Contents
- List of figures. Contributors. Preface. 1. Introduction: The Challenge of the Sociology of Culture to Sociology as a Discipline: Diana Crane (University of Pennsylvania). 2. Culture and the Integration of National Societies: Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego). 3. 'Cultural Pluralism' in Historical Sociology: Recent Theoretical Directions: Ewa Morawska and Willfried Spohn (University of Pennsylvania
- University of Washington). 4. Fissured Terrain: Methodological Approaches and Research Styles in Culture and Politics: Mabel Berezin (University of Pennsylvania). 5. Cultural Theories of Organizational Behavior: The Social Construction of Rational Organizing Principles: Frank R. Dobbin (Princeton University). 6. Toward a Sociology of Material Culture: Science Studies, Cultural Studies and the Meanings of Things: Chandra Mukerji (University of California, San Diego). 7. Culture Studies Through the Production Perspective: Progress and Prospects: Richard A. Peterson (Vanderbilt University). 8. Cultural Production as 'Society in the Making': Architecture as an Exemplar of the Social Construction of Cultural Artifacts: David Brain (New College of the University of South Florida). 9. The Sociology of Cultural Reception: Notes Toward an Emergin Paradigm: Andrea Press (University of Michigan). 10. Methodological Dilemmas in the Sociology of Art: Anne Bowler (University of Delaware). 11. Cultural Conceptions of Human Motivation and Their Significance for Culture Theory: Steve Derne (SUNY-Genesco). References. Index.
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