Cultural Sociology

Les Back is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Andy Bennett is Professor of Cultural Sociology and Director of the Griffith Centre for Cultural Research at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. He has authored and edited numerous books including Popular Music and Youth Culture, Cultures of Popular Music (2001), Remembering Woodstock (2004), and Music Scenes (edited with Richard A. Peterson, 2004). He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Sociology.Laura Desfor Edles is Professor of Sociology at California State University, Northridge.Margaret Gibson is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Griffith University.David Inglis is Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen, UK. He has written in the areas of the history of social thought, historical sociology, the sociologies of culture, art and aesthetics, and the cultural sociology of globalization. He is founding editor of the journal Cultural Sociology.Ronald Jacobs is Associate Professor of Sociology  at University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author of Race, Media and the Crisis of Civil Society (2000) and The Space of Opinion (2011), and co-editor of Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology (2011).Ian Woodward is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Griffith University.

“David Chaney’s magisterial opening provides an authoritative framework and background for these introductions to key subtopics within this important area of sociology.”  (Times Higher Education Supplement, 24 May 2012)

• Notes on Authors PrefaceGlossary of TermsPart I: Theory and Method1 Starting to Write a History of the Present Day: Culture and SociologyDavid Chaney2 Defining Cultural Sociology 3 Methodological Issues in Cultural Sociology Part II: New Cultural Identities4 Class, Culture and Social Difference 5 Gender and Sexuality 6 Racism, ‘Race’ and Difference 7 Bodies and Identities Part III: Fragmented Ideology8 Politics and Culture 9 Globalization 10 Culture and Religion Part IV: Leisure and Lifestyle11 Popular Music: Place, Identity, Community 12 Fashion Logics and the Cultural Economy: The Social Power of Tastes, Aesthetics and Style 13 Food, Eating and Culture 14 Media, Culture and Public Life References Index