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 vii Preface ixGlossary of Terms xiiiPart I: Theory and Method1 Starting toWrite a History of the Present Day: Culture and Sociology 3David Chaney2 Defining Cultural Sociology 193 Methodological Issues in Cultural Sociology 31Part II: New Cultural Identities4 Class, Culture and Social Difference 475 Gender and Sexuality 636 Racism, ‘Race’ and Difference 777 Bodies and Identities 91Part III: Fragmented Ideology8 Politics and Culture 1079 Globalization 12110 Culture and Religion 133Part IV: Leisure and Lifestyle11 Popular Music: Place, Identity, Community 15112 Fashion Logics and the Cultural Economy: The Social Power of Tastes, Aesthetics and Style 16313 Food, Eating and Culture 17714 Media, Culture and Public Life 189References 201Index 219