Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Culture

Mark D. Jacobs is Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason University. He is the author of Screwing the System and Making It Work: Juvenile Justice in the No-Fault Society (1990), as well as articles in such journals as Administration and Society and The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society. He served from 1994 to 1998 on the Executive Council of RC37 of the International Sociological Association. He has co-organized two international conferences at George Mason University for the Section on the Sociology of Culture of the American Sociological Association, and has edited Culture for that section since 2000.Nancy Weiss Hanrahan is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Women’s Studies Research and Resource Center at George Mason University. Her scholarly work, which addresses issues in cultural theory and criticism, is informed by her professional experience in the music business. She is the author of Difference in Time: A Critical Theory of Culture (2000) and a contributor to Critical Theory: Diverse Objects, Diverse Subjects (2003) and Rethinking Social Transformation (2001).

"A worthy handbook for cultural sociologists and those interested in the sociology of culture." (Cultural Sociology, November 2008)

• List of Contributors xIntroduction 1Mark D. Jacobs and Nancy Weiss HanrahanPART I PROBLEMS OF THEORY AND METHOD 151 Structure, Culture and Agency 17Margaret S. Archer2 Culture and Cognition 35Albert J. Bergesen3 Difference and Cultural Systems: Dissonance in Three Parts 48Nancy Weiss HanrahanPART II CULTURAL SYSTEMS 634 Culture in Global Knowledge Societies: Knowledge Cultures and Epistemic Cultures 65Karin Knorr Cetina5 Media Culture(s) and Public Life 80Ronald N. Jacobs6 "Religion as a Cultural System": Theoretical and Empirical Developments Since Geertz 97Rhys H. Williams7 Aesthetic Uncertainty: The New Canon? 114Vera L. Zolberg8 Pragmatics of Taste 131Antoine HennionPART III EVERYDAY LIFE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING 1459 Music and Social Experience 147Tia DeNora10 Consumer Culture 160Daniel Thomas Cook11 Fame and Everyday Life: The "Lottery Celebrities" of Reality TV 176Andrea L. Press and Bruce A. Williams12 Labor for Love: Rethinking Class and Culture in the Case of Single Motherhood 190Maria KefalasPART IV IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE 20513 New Developments in Class and Culture 207David Halle and L. Frank Weyher14 Sexuality and Religion: Negotiating Identity Differences 220Michele Dillon15 Race after the Cultural Turn 234Orville LeePART V COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND CULTURAL AMNESIA 25116 Collective Memory: Why Culture Matters 253Barry Schwartz, Kazuya Fukuoka, and Sachiko Takita-Ishii17 Counter-Memories of Terrorism: The Public Inscription of a Dramatic Past 272Anna Lisa Tota18 Museums and the Constitution of Culture 286Jan Marontate19 Dilemmas of the Witness 302Robin Wagner-PacificiPART VI THE CULTURE OF INSTITUTIONS 31520 Professions as Disciplinary Cultures 317Magali Sarfatti Larson21 Everyday Life and the Constitution of Legality 332Susan S. Silbey22 The Discourses of Welfare and Welfare Reform 346John W. Mohr23 The Culture of Savings and Loan Scandal in the No-Fault Society 364Mark D. JacobsPART VII THE CULTURE OF CITIZENSHIP: LOCAL, NATIONAL, GLOBAL 38124 Civic Culture at the Grass Roots 383Paul Lichterman25 Public Vocabularies of Religious Belief: Explicit and Implicit Religious Discourse in the American Public Sphere 398John H. Evans26 Democracy and Globalization in the Global Economy 412Diana Crane27 The Autonomy of Culture and the Invention of the Politics of Small Things: 1968 Revisited 428Jeffrey C. Goldfarb28 Toward a Nonculturalist Sociology of Culture: On Class and Status in Globalizing Capitalism 444Nancy FraserBibliography 460Index 500