Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology 2nd Edition

Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: culture, lifeworlds, and globalization; Part I Sociological programs of cultural analysis; 1 The Strong Program in cultural sociology: meaning first; 2 "Culture studies" and the culture complex; 3 Sociologies of culture and cultural studies: reflections on inceptions and futures; 4 Lost in translation: feminist cultural/media studies in the new millennium; 5 The cultural turn: language, globalization, and media; 6 Cultures of colonialism; 7 Critique and possibility in cultural sociology.;The thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides an unparalleled overview of sociological and related scholarship on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With 70 essays written by scholars from around the world, the book brings diverse approaches into dialogue, charting new pathways for understanding culture in our global era. Short, accessible chapters by contributing authors address classic questions, emergent issues, and new scholarship on topics ranging from cultural and social theory to politics and the state, social stratification, identity, community, aesthetics, and social and cultural movements. In addition, contributors explore developments central to the constitution and reproduction of culture, such as power, technology, and the organization of work. This handbook is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in a wide range of subfields within sociology, as well as cultural studies, media and communication, and postcolonial theory. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: culture, lifeworlds, and globalization Part I Sociological programs of cultural analysis 1 The Strong Program in cultural sociology: meaning first 2 "Culture studies" and the culture complex 3 Sociologies of culture and cultural studies: reflections on inceptions and futures 4 Lost in translation: feminist cultural/media studies in the new millennium 5 The cultural turn: language, globalization, and media 6 Cultures of colonialism 7 Critique and possibility in cultural sociology. Part II The place of "culture" in sociological analysis 8 What is "the relative autonomy of culture"? 9 Formal models of culture 10 Three propositions toward a cultural sociology of climate change 11 The sociological experience of cultural objects 12 It goes without saying: imagination, inarticulacy, and materiality in political culture 13 The mechanisms of cultural reproduction: explaining the puzzle of persistence Part III Aesthetics, ethics, and cultural legitimacy 14 Cultural traumas 15 Modern and postmodern 16 Social aesthetics. 17 From subtraction to multiplicity: new sociological narratives of morality under modernity 18 Demystifying authenticity in the sociology of culture 19 Carnival culture Part IV Culture and stratification 20 Status distinctions and boundaries 21 Culture and stratification 22 Cultural capital and tastes: the persistence of Distinction 23 The conundrum of race in sociological analyses of culture 24 Sexual meanings, placemaking, and the urban imaginary 25 Access to pleasure: aesthetics, social inequality, and the structure of culture production Part V Groups, identities, and performances. 26 Group cultures and subcultures 27 Culture and micro-sociology 28 Culture and identity: a metatheoretical reformulation 29 Public multiculturalism and/or private multiculturality? 30 Bodies, beauty, and the cultural politics of appearance 31 Gender performance: cheerleaders, drag kings, and the rest of us 32 Rituals, repertoires, and performances in postmodernity: a cultural-sociological account Part VI Making/using culture 33 Culture, social relations, and consumption 34 The cultural life of objects 35 Pop culture: from production to socio-technical moments. 36 New amateurs revisited: popular music, digital technology, and the fate of cultural production 37 The fall of cyberspace and the rise of data 38 Culture and the built environment: between meaning and money 39 Public institutions of "high" culture 40 Cultural policy 41 Rethinking the sociology of media ownership Part VII Cultures of work and professions 42 Work cultures 43 Everywhere and nowhere: reconceiving service work as culture 44 Carework: cultural frameworks and global circuits 45 Legal culture and cultures of legality 46 Medical cultures 47 Science cultures. Part VIII Political cultures. "The Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary scholarship in sociology and related disciplines focused on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With sixty-five essays written by scholars from around the world, the book draws diverse approaches to cultural sociology into a dialogue that charts new pathways for research on culture in a global era. Contributing scholars address vital concerns that relate to classic questions as well as emergent issues in the study of culture. Topics include cultural and social theory, politics and the state, social stratification, community, aesthetics, lifestyle, and identity. In addition, the authors explore developments central to the constitution and reproduction of culture, such as power, technology, and the organization of work. This book is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in diverse subfields within Sociology, as well as Cultural Studies, Media and Communication, and Postcolonial Theory"--Provided by publisher The Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary scholarship in sociology and related disciplines focused on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With 65 essays written by scholars from around the world, the book draws diverse approaches to cultural sociology into a dialogue that charts new pathways for research on culture in a global era. Contributing scholars address vital concerns that relate to classic questions as well as emergent issues in the study of culture .. The Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary scholarship in sociology and related disciplines focused on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With 65 essays written by scholars from around the world, the book draws diverse approaches to cultural sociology into a dialogue that charts new pathways for research on culture in a global era. Biogeography This thoroughly updated edition provides an unparalleled overview of cutting-edge scholarship on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With 70 essays written by scholars from around the world, the handbook charts diverse new pathways for understanding culture in our global era.