Dick Houtman, Professor of Sociology of Culture and Religion, Center for Culture, Conflict and Inequality (C3I), Department of Sociology, KU Leuven, Belgium

‘This unique book contains fourteen deeply researched essays that, skilfully navigating between theory and empirics, examine macro-economic development with a particular emphasis on Latin America. The authors interpret economic development and structural change from modern-day structuralist perspectives and focus on growth, technological upgrading (to escape commodity dependence), income distribution and the political economy of the state, always in a centre-periphery world. Brimming with original ideas, all of enduring significance, the book, honouring the late Jaime Ros, is a tour de force of modern structuralist economic thinking. It is bound to generate much discussion, further thinking and critical debate.’

• ContentsPreface 1 What is culture? 2 The cultural turn in sociology 3 Emile Durkheim’s cultural sociology 4 Max Weber’s cultural sociology 5 Method in cultural sociology 6 Reflexive cultural sociologyReferences

Dick Houtman, Professor of Sociology of Culture and Religion, Center for Culture, Conflict and Inequality (C3I), Department of Sociology, KU Leuven, Belgium

‘This unique book contains fourteen deeply researched essays that, skilfully navigating between theory and empirics, examine macro-economic development with a particular emphasis on Latin America. The authors interpret economic development and structural change from modern-day structuralist perspectives and focus on growth, technological upgrading (to escape commodity dependence), income distribution and the political economy of the state, always in a centre-periphery world. Brimming with original ideas, all of enduring significance, the book, honouring the late Jaime Ros, is a tour de force of modern structuralist economic thinking. It is bound to generate much discussion, further thinking and critical debate.’

• ContentsPreface 1 What is culture? 2 The cultural turn in sociology 3 Emile Durkheim’s cultural sociology 4 Max Weber’s cultural sociology 5 Method in cultural sociology 6 Reflexive cultural sociologyReferences

Dick Houtman, Professor of Sociology of Culture and Religion, Center for Culture, Conflict and Inequality (C3I), Department of Sociology, KU Leuven, Belgium

‘This unique book contains fourteen deeply researched essays that, skilfully navigating between theory and empirics, examine macro-economic development with a particular emphasis on Latin America. The authors interpret economic development and structural change from modern-day structuralist perspectives and focus on growth, technological upgrading (to escape commodity dependence), income distribution and the political economy of the state, always in a centre-periphery world. Brimming with original ideas, all of enduring significance, the book, honouring the late Jaime Ros, is a tour de force of modern structuralist economic thinking. It is bound to generate much discussion, further thinking and critical debate.’

• ContentsPreface 1 What is culture? 2 The cultural turn in sociology 3 Emile Durkheim’s cultural sociology 4 Max Weber’s cultural sociology 5 Method in cultural sociology 6 Reflexive cultural sociologyReferences