Matters of Culture Cultural Sociology in Practice

Name: Matters of Culture Cultural Sociology in Practice
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ISBN: 9780521795456

ISBN-10: 0521795451

ISBN-13: 9780521795456

Edition: 2004

Authors: Roger Friedland, John W. Mohr, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Steven Seidman

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American sociology is in the midst of a cultural turn. Where sociologists once spurned culture, today they embrace and explore it, seeking to understand the construction of social forms and the way culture matters. Problems of meaning, discourse, aesthetics, value, textuality, form and narrativity, topics traditionally within the humanists' purview, have come to the fore as sociologists increasingly emphasize the role of meanings, symbols, cultural frames and cognitive schema in their theorizations of social process and institution. Matters of Culture is an introduction to some of the best theorizing in cultural sociology, focusing in particular on questions of power, the sacred and…

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List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/22/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English




The cultural turn in American sociology




The Place of Culture



Culture and continuity: causal structures in socio-cultural persistence




Theorizing hermeneutic cultural history




Cultural studies as fin-de-siecle culture




Sacred and Profane



Private devotions and the sacred heart of Elvis: the Durkheimians and the (re)turn of the sacred




The social marking of the past: toward a socio-semiotics of memory




On the social construction of moral universals: the 'Holocaust' from war crimes to trauma drama




Culture and Power



Social justice in the age of identity politics: redistribution, recognition, and participation




Are we all in the closet? Notes towards a sociological and cultural turn in Queer Theory




Why (not) Foucault? Reflections on power, fascism and aesthetics




Products and Production of Culture



Audience aesthetics and popular culture




Grounding the postmodern: a story of empirical research on fuzzy concepts




How art works: form and function in the stuff of life




Ethnosympathy: reflections on an American dilemma