Practicing culture
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Practicing culture
(Taking culture seriously)
Routledge, 2007
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Practicing Culture seeks to revitalize the field of cultural sociology with an emphasis not on abstract theoretical debates but on showing how to put theoretical sources to work in empirical research. Culture is not just products and representations but practices. It is made and remade in countless small ways and occasional bursts of innovation. It is something people do - and do in rich variety and distinctive contexts as engaging case studies from the book reveal. For example:
in Russia's most Western city, Kaliningrad, residents dig for artifacts symbolizing a German past - even though their parents only migrated to what was once Konigsberg after WWII
in the USA, fans of professional wrestling pride themselves on being smart enough to know how much is trickery and how the tricks work yet still believe in the contest.
Practicing Culture will reshape and invigorate the sociology of culture, not only through internal development, but through enhanced connections to the interdisciplinary social theory and to related fields like the sociology of knowledge and ethnography. It will prove an essential tool for students and researchers of cultural theory, contemporary social theory and cultural sociology.
Table of Contents
1. 'We Have Never Been German': The Economy of Digging in Russian Kaliningrad 2. Practicing Poetry: A Career Without a Job 3. Hot Glass: The Calorific Imagination of Practice in Glassblowing 4. State Power as Field Work: Culture and Practice in the French Survey of Historic Landmarks 5. New and Improved Nations: Branding National Identity 6. Facts in the City: How London Accountants Simplify Decisions 7. Managing Doubt: Professional Wrestling Jargon and the Making of 'Smart Fans' 8. Beauty at the Gallery: Sentimental Education and Operatic Community in Contemporary Buenos Aires 9. The Erotic Life of Electric Hair Clippers: A Social History 10. Practicing Authorship: The Case of Brecht's Plays
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