The New American Cultural Sociology

1998-06-28 Social Science

Author : Philip Smith
Release : 1998-06-28
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 344/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The New American Cultural Sociology written by Philip Smith. This book was released on 1998-06-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Cultural Sociology presents a serious challenge to British Cultural Studies and European grand theory alike. This exciting volume brings together sixteen seminal papers by leading figures in what is emerging as an important intellectual tradition. It places them in the context of related work in Sociology and other disciplines, exploring the connections between cultural sociology and different approaches, such as comparative and historical research, postmodernism, and symbolic interactionism. The book is divided into three sections: Culture as Text and Code, The Production and Reception of Culture, and Culture in Action. Each section contains edited contributions, both theoretical and empirical, addressing the key debates in cultural sociology, including the autonomy of culture, power and culture, structure and agency and how to conceptualise meaning.

Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology

2000-12-11 Social Science

Author : Michèle Lamont
Release : 2000-12-11
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 949/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology written by Michèle Lamont. This book was released on 2000-12-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a powerful new theoretical framework for understanding cross-national cultural differences. Researchers from France and America present eight comparative case studies to demonstrate how the people of these two different cultures mobilize national "repertoires of evaluation" to make judgments about politics, economics, morals and aesthetics. This approach goes beyond essentialist models of national character to compare varying attitudes on topics ranging from racism and sexual harrassment to identity politics, publishing, journalism, the arts and the environment. The book will appeal to sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists alike.

Meaning and Method

2015-11-17 Social Science

Author : Isaac Reed
Release : 2015-11-17
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book Meaning and Method written by Isaac Reed. This book was released on 2015-11-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture is increasingly important to American social science, but in what way? This book addresses the core issues of the sociology of culture-questions about the social role of meaning, along with those about the methods sociologists use to study culture and society-in a manner that makes clear their relevance to sociology as a whole. Part I consists of essays by leading cultural sociologists on how the turn to culture has changed the sociological study of organizations, economic action, and television, and concludes with Georgina Born's methodological statement on the sociology of art and cultural production. Part II contains a highly original, and at times heated, debate between Richard Biernacki and John H. Evans on the appropriateness of abstract and quantifiable coding schemes for the sociological study of culture. Ranging from the philosophy of science to the concrete, practical problems of interpreting masses of cultural data, the debate raises the controversy over the interpretation of culture and the explanation of social action to a new level of sophistication.

Sociology of Culture and Cultural Practices

2014-04-01 Social Science

Author : Laurent Fleury
Release : 2014-04-01
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book Sociology of Culture and Cultural Practices written by Laurent Fleury. This book was released on 2014-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sociology of Culture and of Cultural Practices, Laurent Fleury presents a synthesis of research and debate from France and the United States. He traces the development of the sociology of culture from its origins (Weber and Simmel) and examines the major trends that have emerged in this branch of sociology. Fleury also raises issues of cultural hierarchy, distinction, and legitimate culture and mass culture and focuses on new areas of research, including the role of institutions, the reception of works of art, aesthetic experience, and emancipation through art.

Measuring Culture

2020-08-11 Social Science

Author : John W. Mohr
Release : 2020-08-11
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 585/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Measuring Culture written by John W. Mohr. This book was released on 2020-08-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social scientists seek to develop systematic ways to understand how people make meaning and how the meanings they make shape them and the world in which they live. But how do we measure such processes? Measuring Culture is an essential point of entry for both those new to the field and those who are deeply immersed in the measurement of meaning. Written collectively by a team of leading qualitative and quantitative sociologists of culture, the book considers three common subjects of measurement—people, objects, and relationships—and then discusses how to pivot effectively between subjects and methods. Measuring Culture takes the reader on a tour of the state of the art in measuring meaning, from discussions of neuroscience to computational social science. It provides both the definitive introduction to the sociological literature on culture as well as a critical set of case studies for methods courses across the social sciences.

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