The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology

Herausgeber: Alexander, Jeffrey C.; Smith, Philip; Jacobs, Ronald

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays on various topics from the perspective of cultural sociology, based on the premise that ideas and beliefs retain autonomy from the social structures to which they refer and illuminate.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Handbooks
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 840
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 1414g
• ISBN-13: 9780199338269
• ISBN-10: 0199338264
• Artikelnr.: 38077879

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University. Ronald Jacobs is Professor of Sociology at SUNY-Albany. Philip Smith is Professor of Sociology at Yale.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1. Introduction: Cultural Sociology Today
* Jeffrey C. Alexander, Ronald Jacobs, and Philip Smith
* PART I The Cultural Method in Sociology
* 2. Cultural Sociology as a Research Program: Post-Positivism,
Meaning, and Causality
* Isaac Ariail Reed
* 3. Rationalization Processes inside Cultural Sociology
* Richard Biernacki
* 4. Four Ways to Measure Culture: Social Science, Hermeneutics, and
the Cultural Turn
* John Mohr and Craig Rawlings
* PART II The Economic as Culture
* 5. Culture and the Economy
* Carlo Tognato
* 6. Culture and Economic Life
* Lyn Spillman
* PART III The Political as Culture
* 7. From Moral Sentiments to Civic Engagement: Sociological Analysis
as Responsible Spectatorship
* Robin Wagner-Pacifici
* 8. Reinventing the Concept of Civic Culture
* Paul Lichterman
* 9. Cultural Sociology and Civil Society in a World of Flows:
Recapturing Ambiguity, Hybridity and the Political
* Gianpaolo Biaocchi
* PART IV The Media as Culture
* 10. Mediatized Disasters in the Global Age: On the Ritualization of
Catastrophe
* Simon Cottle
* 11. Media, Intellectuals, the Public Sphere, and the Story of Barack
Obama in 2008
* Eleanor Townsely
* 12. Entertainment Media and the Aesthetic Public Sphere
* Ronald Jacobs
* PART V Race and Immigration as Culture
* 13. Rethinking the Relationship of African American Men to the Street
* Al Young
* 14. Ethnicity, Race, Nationhood, Foreignness, Etc.: Prolegomena to a
Cultural Sociology of Difference-Based Interactions
* Giuseppe Sciortino
* 15. Burning Schools/Building Bridges: Ethnographical Touchdowns in
the Civil Sphere
* Mats Trondman
* PART VI Religion as Culture
* 16. The Constitution of Religious Political Violence: Institution,
Culture and Power
* Roger Friedland
* 17. Globalization, Culture and Religion
* Kenneth Thompson
* PART VII Social Movements as Culture
* 18. Narrative and Social Movements
* Francesca Polletta and Bobby Chen
* 19. The Politics of Authenticity: Civic Individualism and the
Cultural Roots of Gay Normalization
* Steven Seidman, Chet Meeks, and James Dean
* PART VIII Trauma as Culture
* 20. Rethinking Conflict and Memory: the case of Nanjing
* Barry Schwartz
* 21. Cultural Trauma: Emotion and Narration
* Ron Eyerman
* 22. The Chinese Construction and Repression of Trauma: The Rape of
Nanjing
* Jeffrey C. Alexander and Rui Gao
* PART IX Events as Culture
* 23. Events as Templates of Possibility: An Analytic Typology of
Political Facts
* Mabel Berezin
* 24. Cultural Pragmatics and the Structure and Flow of Democratic
Politics
* Jason Mast
* PART X Materiality as Culture
* 25. Consumption as Cultural Interpretation: Taste, Performativity and
Navigating The Forest Of Objects
* Ian Woodward
* 26. The Force of Embodiment: Bodies, Dispositions and Culture
* Arthur Frank
* 27. Music Sociology in a New Key
* Lisa McCormick
* PART XI Knowledge as Culture
* 28. Narrating Global Warming
* Philip Smith
* PART XII Classification and Ambiguity as Culture
* 29. Broadening the Strong Program in Cultural Sociology: Focus On
Mundane Life in Organizations
* Nina Eliasoph and Jade Lo
* 30. Inbetweenness and Ambivalence
* Bernhard Giesen