Handbook of Cultural Sociology by Grindstaff, Laura -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Contents Detailed contents Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction

A brief history of cultural sociology The “Broad Program,” the lifeworld, and globalization Opening the handbook References

Part I Sociological programs of cultural analysis

1 The Strong Program

Origins Achievements

Collective conscience, civil society and the mass media Binary oppositions and the discourse of civil society Narrative and genre Performance Cultural trauma Iconicity

Critiques and challenges References

2 “Culture studies” and the culture complex

Culture studies The culture complex and the analytics of government Historicizing culture Note References

3 The subaltern, the postcolonial, and cultural sociology

Subaltern subjectivity Sociology and subaltern studies

Culture and the nation Knowledge production Marginalization and internal colonialism

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4 The cultural turn

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5 Media evolution and cultural change

The medium theorists Cultural phases à la medium theory

Traditional oral cultures The transitional scribal phase Modern print culture Postmodern global electronic culture

Medium theory in perspective Acknowledgments References

6 Re-imagining critique in cultural sociology

Orienting cultural sociology in a “post-critical” society Situating the “cultural turn” in the sociology of culture The autonomy of culture as problematic Reflective, imaginative, and intimate critique Conclusion References

Part II Theories and methodologies in cultural analysis

7 Sociology and cultural studies

The sociological limitations of subcultural theory The promise of recent cultural sociology and cultural studies Conclusion References

8 Lost in translation

New sites, old challenges Maybe bigger is better? Acknowledgments References

9 What is “the relative autonomy of culture”?

The autonomist position Autonomy versus constitution

Bourdieu Alexander’s critique Giddens Archer’s critique The view from the other side: Kilminster on Giddens

Conclusions Acknowledgments References

10 The cultural sociological experience of cultural objects

Arts and humanities as models Art models reality—the case for images References

11 Formal models of culture

Two ways to know A brief history of culture modeling in American sociology, 1900–2009

Period 1: pre-formal phase Period 2: the formalist turn Period 3: institutionalization of the formalist program Period 4: fragmentation Period 5: the cultural turn Period 6: institutionalization of the cultural program

On the Methods Wars Conclusion References

12 Discourse and narrative

What is discourse, what is narrative? What is said and what is not said: toward a sociology of silence Conclusion References

13 The mechanisms of cultural reproduction

A perdurantist view of cultural processes The mechanisms of persistence

Enculturation or social learning Institutional reproduction: hegemonic and counter-hegemonic Structural reproduction Frequency-dependent reproduction Communication-based reproduction Reinterpretation Embedded reproduction

Conclusion References

Part III Aesthetics, ethics, and cultural legitimacy

14 Social aesthetics

Historical roots and routes Modern moods, modern modes Globalism in an aesthetic key Conclusion and future possibilities References

15 History, sublime, terror

The sublime: from first to second nature Poetry “after Auschwitz” Adorno’s revisitations State terror and capitalist modernity Reinventing revolution Acknowledgments References

16 Modern and postmodern

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17 New sociological narratives of morality under modernity

Boundaries Conflict Hybridity Spirituality Conclusion References

18 Demystifying authenticity in the sociology of culture

Assigning authenticity Staging authenticity Performing authenticity The demystification of authenticity as cultural practice Conclusion References

19 Carnival culture

The commodification of carnival “Second life” and “second voice” in Bakhtin’s medieval carnival The positive and negative functions of carnival Carnival and postmodernism Future directions for carnival culture studies References

Part IV Individuals and groups, identities and performances

20 Group cultures and subcultures

Groups and their idiocultures Networks and their subcultures

Multiple group membership Weak ties Structural roles Media diffusion

Conclusion References

21 Culture and self

Back to the future: culture and personality? Culture and self-conceptions Culture and identity Culture and multiple identities Conclusion References

22 From public multiculturalism to private multiculturality?

Multiculturalism Perspectives on multiculturalism Cultural assimilation: Japan Liberal multiculturalism: the UK, Germany, and Ireland Cosmopolitanism or social multiculturalism? France and Sweden Recognition and rights: instituionalizing diversity Multiculturality through multiraciality Conclusion References

23 Bodies, beauty, and fashion

Disregarded foundations Body ideals and structures of inequality Fashion and identity Emerging issues References

24 Gender performance

Cheerleading: inside-gender performance Drag shows: outside-gender performance Conclusion References

25 Rituals, repertoires, and performances in post-modernity

Durkheim on ritual From ritual to repertoire: Swidler and the cultural toolkit From ritual to reproduction: Bourdieu and the strategic rituals of distinction Emotional energy and interaction ritual chains The challenge of creating a successful ritual performance: Alexander and the theory of cultural pragmatics Conclusion References

Part V Culture and stratification

26 Cultural capital and tastes

Cultural capital and taste since Distinction New rules in the game of culture Conclusion References

27 Access to pleasure

Meaning in social context

Revisiting the mass-culture debate

Organizational bases for cultural pleasure

Diversity and innovation

Structural sources of elite aesthetic advantage

Maintaining specialized relations between creators and audiences Aesthetic advantages of control over space and time Art “versus” market Collecting and preserving

Technological change and aesthetic pleasures (Yelp!) References

28 Status distinctions and boundaries

What is status? What are status systems? How do status systems work? Boundaries What are the effects of culture?

Ideologies of equality and hierarchy The status of status and its correlation with economic and political power The content of culture

Food, sex, and segregation The market, individualism, and the therapeutic society

Conclusion References

29 Culture and stratification

The emergence and reproduction of status cultures

Values, codes, and the emergence of status cultures Status and organizational skills Class habitus

Cross-cutting institutional linkages

Institutions, capital, fields Cultural capital The context-specificity of cultural capital Morals and manners Expanding the historical scope

Problems and prospects in culture and stratification research References

30 The conundrum of race in sociological analyses of culture

Diversifying and loosening of racial categories at the end of the twentieth century De-emphasizing race and racial categories at the end of the twentieth century New considerations of racial performance and representation in the modern world Making meaning of race in the future: a cautionary word References and further reading

31 Culture

Notes References

Part VI Making/using culture

32 Environment and culture

The nature–culture dialectic

Defining “nature” and “environment” Defining “culture”

Towards a strong program of environmental cultural sociology: two case studies

Case study I: the Sundarbans, Bay of Bengal—a mangrove forest delta swamped by human problems Case study II: Australia—not enough water?

The challenge and the promise of a cultural sociology of nature References

33 Culture and the built environment

Built environment as capitalist commodity Cultural Marxism and the space of postmodernism Institutional analysis of the built environment A Bourdieu model for the built environment Applying Bourdieu’s model to modern architecture Conclusion References

34 The rise and fall of cyberspace, or, how cyberspace turned inside out

Cyberspactial autonomies

Virtual community and identity Indeterminacy and virtuality

Mythologies of cyberspace

Production of cyberspace Integrative practices

The fall of cyberspace and the rise of everyware

The materials turn Knowing materials Territories and zones

Conclusions References

35 Public institutions of “high” culture

“High culture” as a problematic term The “high culture model” Public funding of fine arts institutions Issues in public institutions of high culture Future directions Conclusion References

36 Contemporary art and cultural complexity

Chelsea in global context Clarifying “globalization”

International art fairs Selling art on the internet

The local market and organizational analysis

The multiplication and persistence of small galleries The best free show in town Commercial galleries as opportunities for artists An occupational community of “gallerists” The local commercial real estate market: will Chelsea go the way of SoHo? Emerging gallery–auction house conflict

The art works and their meaning for those who view them “Class homology,” “omnivorism,” and their limits Conclusions References

37 Pop culture institutions

The production of culture Hegemonic and affirmative culture Active audiences and the complexities of meaning Aesthetics Conclusions References

38 The rise of the new amateurs

A studio reverie Digital transformations of popular music The rise of the new amateurs Convergence and the fate of “DIY” music production Band in a boxroom Conclusion: why 1983? References

39 Consumption and critique

Consumption and the “cultural turn” An empirical sociology of consumption Consumer politics Sustainable consumption References

Part VII Cultures of work and professions

40 Work cultures

Culture and economics Occupational and workplace cultures Organizational culture Work cultures in an era of globalization Conclusion References

41 Cultures of service

The emergence of labor studies of service work Bringing culture in Analyzing and comparing routine culture work: consumer markets and embeddedness Looking ahead References

42 Cultures of carework, carework across cultures

Privatization of care as a cultural framework Stratified divisions of carework Policy parameters and care regimes Intertwined meanings and contexualized practices Carework in immigration contexts Conclusion References

43 Science cultures

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44 Medical cultures

Cultures in and of medicine The culture of medicine Local and cosmopolitan worlds of biomedicine Comparative perspectives and interpretive concepts Culture in medicine: addressing healthcare disparities Cultural responses as correctives to disparities in care Conclusion References

45 Legal culture and cultures of legality

A concise conceptualization Genesis of the term legal culture Confusions and debates Constitutive theories of legal culture Further study of legal culture References

Part VIII Political cultures

46 Making things political

Shared methods of politicizing: elements of a cultural analysis Politicizing is more than “sounding political” Depoliticizing is more than social-structural domination Cultures of politics in global perspective Conclusion: qualities of political engagement in everyday interaction References

47 The cultural constitution of publics

Habermas’s public sphere Arendt’s public domain The bourgeois public sphere: theoretical and historical revisions Social interaction and the formation of publics Media and the cultural constitution of publics and the sphere of publics Conclusion References

48 Cultures of democracy

Towards the possibility of civil solidarity All civic ties are not equal Beyond the codes of liberty Conclusion References

49 National culture, national identity, and the culture(s) of the nation

Archaeology of the field: esprit, character, civilization Culture as construction tool: inventing national culture and promoting a culture of the national National culture as discourse and structure of meaning New lines of research: everyday practices, material culture, and the senses Conclusion References

50 Nationalism as the cultural foundation of modern experience

Nationalism: the context of its birth Implications of nationalism Alternative perspectives Conclusion References

51 The cultural of the political

Cultural approaches to the state in sociological lineages

Karl Marx Max Weber Emile Durkheim Michel Foucault Pierre Bourdieu

Research agendas State ideas State boundaries State rituals State classifications Conclusion References

52 The “soul of the citizen,” the invention of the social

Power’s double itinerary: “policing” and pastoral care A neoliberal turn Therapeutic cultures and the governance of happiness Rethinking cultures of resistance Colonial governmentality (In)conclusions: the cultural politics of cultural sociology? References

Part IX Global cultures, global processes

53 Consumerism and self-representation in an era of global capitalism

The theories of cultural convergence The retail chain: the link between suppliers and buyers The expansion of global retailing Stratification, lifestyles, and the art of self-representation References

54 The political economy of cultural production

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55 Analyzing culture through globalization

Toward a dialectic of globalization Producing/consuming culture and globalization in a Caribbean context Neoliberal entrepreneurship of the self Conclusions Acknowledgements References

56 Globalization and cultural production

Studying globalization and cultural production Culture industries Commodity chains and regionalism Conclusion References

57 Media technologies, cultural mobility, and the nation-state

Space, time, and modernity Print media and the formation of the nation-state Electronic media and national space Digital networks, global media, and post-national space References

58 Tourism and culture

Conceptualizations of the tourism–culture nexus Tourism, ethnicity, and race Cultural erosion and invention: authenticity in tourism Tourism as a metaphor of cultural transformation References

Part X Cultural processes and change

59 Culture and collective memory

History, commemoration, and memory Two perspectives Is memory really a construction Innovations Memory and culture Memory, dignity, and honor Cultural differences in the memory of trauma New outlooks References

60 From collective memory to commemoration

Commemoration as ritual Commemoration of a difficult past Political contentions in commemoration Reiterated commemoration Nationalism and cosmopolitanism in commemoration Conclusion References

61 Movement cultures

Movement cultures as political and instrumental Movement cultures as inherited and emergent Movement cultures as rational and performative Movement cultures as evanescent and enduring Conclusion References

62 Cultural movements and the sociology of culture

What is a cultural movement? Cultural movements, cultural change, and reflexivity Political consumerism as a cultural movement Conclusion References

63 Migration and cultures

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64 Cultural diffusion

I II III References

65 Cosmopolitanism and the clash of civilizations

Introduction: alterity, ancient and modern The Huntington thesis Cosmopolitan virtue Conclusion: terror and jihad References

Index

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