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Handbook of Cultural Sociology The Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary scholarship in sociology and related disciplines focused on the complex relations of cul- turetosocialstructures andeverydaylife.With65essays writtenbyscholarsfromaround 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 addi- tion, the authors explore developments central to the constitution and reproduction of culture, such as power, technology, and the organization of work. Thisbookis essentialreading forundergraduateandpostgraduate studentsinterested in diverse subfields within Sociology, as well as Cultural Studies, Media and Communica- tion, and Postcolonial Theory. John R. Hall is Professor of Sociology at the University of California – Davis. His published works include Apocalypse: From Antiquity to the Empire of Modernity (Polity, 2009), Visual Worlds (Routledge, 2005, with co-editors), Sociology on Culture (Routledge, 2003, with co-authors), and Cultures of Inquiry (Cambridge University Press, 1999). Laura Grindstaff is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California – Davis.She is theauthor of the award-winningMoney Shot:Trash, Class, and the Making of TV Talk Shows (University of Chicago Press, 2002) and has published articles on various aspects of popular culture from reality programming to cheerleading. Ming-Cheng Lo is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California – Davis. She is the author of Doctors within Borders: Profession, Ethnicity and Modernity in Colonial Taiwan (University of California Press, 2002). She has published various articles on the cultural processes of political and medical institutions. Handbook of Cultural Sociology Edited by John R. Hall, Laura Grindstaff, and Ming-Cheng Lo Firstpublished2010byRoutledge 2ParkSquare, MiltonPark, Abingdon,Oxon,OX144RN Simultaneously publishedin theUSA andCanada byRoutledge 270Madison Avenue,NewYork,NY10016 Routledge isanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2010. To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk. ©2010JohnR.Hall,Laura Grindstaff,andMing-ChengLo forselection andeditorial matter;individualchapters,thecontributors Allrights reserved. 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HM621.H344 2010 306–dc22 2009049917 ISBN 0-203-89137-6 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 13: 978–0–415 –47445 –0 (hbk) ISBN13:978–0–203–89137–7(ebk) Contents Detailed contents vi Acknowledgments xi Notes on contributors xiii Introduction 1 Parts I Sociological programs of cultural analysis 11 II Theories and methodologies in cultural analysis 75 III Aesthetics, ethics, and cultural legitimacy 153 IV Individuals and groups, identities and performances 211 V Culture and stratification 273 VI Making/using culture 335 VII Cultures of work and professions 417 VIII Political cultures 481 IX Global cultures, global processes 557 X Cultural processes and change 617 v Detailed contents Acknowledgments xi Notes on contributors xiii Introduction: culture, lifeworlds, and globalization 1 John R. Hall, Laura Grindstaff, and Ming-Cheng Lo Part I Sociological programs of cultural analysis 11 1 The Strong Program: origins, achievements, and prospects 13 Jeffrey C. Alexander and Philip Smith 2 “Culture studies” and the culture complex 25 Tony Bennett 3 The subaltern, the postcolonial, and cultural sociology 35 Raka Ray and Smitha Radhakrishnan 4 The cultural turn: language, globalization, and media 45 Mark Poster 5 Media evolution and cultural change 52 Joshua Meyrowitz 6 Re-imagining critique in cultural sociology 64 Nancy Weiss Hanrahan and Sarah S. Amsler Part II Theories and methodologies in cultural analysis 75 7 Sociology and cultural studies: an interrupted dialogue 77 Nick Couldry vi DETAILEDCONTENTS 8 Lost in translation: feminist media studies in the new millennium 87 Suzanna Danuta Walters 9 What is “the relative autonomy of culture”? 97 Jeffrey K. Olick 10 The cultural sociological experience of cultural objects 110 Robin Wagner-Pacifici 11 Formal models of culture 119 John W. Mohr and Craig M. Rawlings 12 Discourse and narrative 130 Tammy Smith 13 The mechanisms of cultural reproduction: explaining the puzzle of persistence 140 Orlando Patterson Part III Aesthetics, ethics, and cultural legitimacy 153 14 Social aesthetics 155 Ben Highmore 15 History, sublime, terror: notes on culture’s failure and the social catastrophe 164 Gene Ray 16 Modern and postmodern 174 Peter Beilharz 17 New sociological narratives of morality under modernity: from subtraction to multiplicity 181 Mary Jo Neitz, Kevin McElmurry, and Daniel Winchester 18 Demystifying authenticity in the sociology of culture 191 David Grazian 19 Carnival culture 201 Karen Bettez Halnon Part IV Individuals and groups, identities and performances 211 20 Group cultures and subcultures 213 Gary Alan Fine 21 Culture and self 223 Gary Gregg 22 From public multiculturalism to private multiculturality? 233 Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain vii DETAILEDCONTENTS 23 Bodies, beauty, and fashion 243 Maxine Leeds Craig 24 Gender performance: cheerleaders, drag kings, and the rest of us 252 Joshua Gamson and Laura Grindstaff 25 Rituals, repertoires, and performances in post-modernity: a cultural sociological account 263 Ronald N. Jacobs Part V Culture and stratification 273 26 Cultural capital and tastes: the persistence of Distinction 275 David Wright 27 Access to pleasure: aesthetics, social inequality, and the structure of culture production 285 Ann Swidler 28 Status distinctions and boundaries 295 Murray Milner, Jr. 29 Culture and stratification 305 Omar Lizardo 30 The conundrum of race in sociological analyses of culture 316 Alford A. Young, Jr. 31 Culture: liquid-modern adventures of an idea 326 Zygmunt Bauman Part VI Making/using culture 335 32 Environment and culture 337 Trevor Hogan, Divya Anand, and Kirsten Henderson 33 Culture and the built environment: between meaning and money 347 David Gartman 34 The rise and fall of cyberspace, or, how cyberspace turned inside out 357 Martin Hand 35 Public institutions of “high” culture 368 Victoria D. Alexander 36 Contemporary art and cultural complexity: the case of Chelsea 378 David Halle and Kim Robinson viii DETAILEDCONTENTS 37 Pop culture institutions: from production to aesthetics 388 Marshall Battani 38 The rise of the new amateurs: popular music, digital technology, and the fate of cultural production 398 Nick Prior 39 Consumption and critique 408 Alan Warde Part VII Cultures of work and professions 417 40 Work cultures 419 Robin Leidner 41 Cultures of service 428 Eileen M. Otis 42 Cultures of carework, carework across cultures 438 Pei-Chia Lan 43 Science cultures 449 Alex Preda 44 Medical cultures 458 Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good and Seth Hannah 45 Legal culture and cultures of legality 470 Susan S. Silbey Part VIII Political cultures 481 46 Making things political 483 Nina Eliasoph and Paul Lichterman 47 The cultural constitution of publics 494 Yifat Gutman and Jeffrey C. Goldfarb 48 Cultures of democracy: a civil-society approach 504 Ming-Cheng Lo 49 National culture, national identity, and the culture(s) of the nation 514 Geneviève Zubrzycki 50 Nationalism as the cultural foundation of modern experience 526 Liah Greenfeld and Eric Malczewski 51 The cultural of the political: towards a cultural sociology of state formation 535 Xiaohong Xu and Philip Gorski ix