The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology

1. INTRODUCTION: CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY TODAY ; JEFFREY C. ALEXANDER, RON JACOBS, PHILIP SMITH ; PART I THE CULTURAL METHOD IN SOCIOLOGY ; 2. CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY AS A RESEARCH PROGRAM: POST-POSITIVISM, MEANING, AND CAUSALITY ; ISAAC ARIAIL REED ; 3. RATIONALIZATION PROCESSES INSIDE CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY ; RICHARD BIERNACKI ; 4. FOUR WAYS TO MEASURE CULTURE: SOCIAL SCIENCE, HERMENEUTICS, AND THE CULTURAL TURN ; JOHN MOHR AND CRAIG RAWLINGS ; PART II THE ECONOMIC AS CULTURE ; 5. CULTURE AND THE ECONOMY ; CARLO TOGNATO ; 6. CULTURE AND ECONOMIC LIFE ; LYN SPILLMAN ; PART III THE POLITICAL AS CULTURE ; 7. FROM MORAL SENTIMENTS TO CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AS RESPONSIBLE SPECTATORSHIP ; ROBIN WAGNER-PACIFICI ; 8. REINVENTING THE CONCEPT OF CIVIC CULTURE ; PAUL LICHTERMAN ; 9. CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN A WORLD OF FLOWS: RECAPTURING AMBIGUITY, HYBRIDITY AND THE POLITICAL ; GIANPAOLO BIAOCCHI ; PART IV THE MEDIA AS CULTURE ; 10. MEDIATIZED DISASTERS IN THE GLOBAL AGE: ON THE RITUALIZATION OF CATASTROPHE ; SIMON COTTLE ; 11. MEDIA, INTELLECTUALS, THE PUBLIC SPHERE, AND THE STORY OF BARACK OBAMA IN 2008 ; ELEANOR TOWNSELY ; 12. ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA AND THE AESTHETIC PUBLIC SPHERE ; RONALD JACOBS ; PART V RACE AND IMMIGRATION AS CULTURE ; 13. RETHINKING THE RELATIONSHIP OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN TO THE STREET ; AL YOUNG ; 14. ETHNICITY, RACE, NATIONHOOD, FOREIGNNESS, ETC.: PROLEGOMENA TO A CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY OF DIFFERENCE-BASED INTERACTIONS ; GIUSEPPE SCIORTINO ; 15. BURNING SCHOOLS/BUILDING BRIDGES: ETHNOGRAPHICAL TOUCHDOWNS IN THE CIVIL SPHERE ; MATS TRONDMAN ; PART VI RELIGION AS CULTURE ; 16. THE CONSTITUTION OF RELIGIOUS POLITICAL VIOLENCE: INSTITUTION, CULTURE AND POWER ; ROGER FRIEDLAND ; 17. GLOBALIZATION, CULTURE AND RELIGION ; KENNETH THOMPSON ; PART VII SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AS CULTURE ; 18. NARRATIVE AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ; FRANCESCA POLLETTA AND BOBBY CHEN ; 19. THE POLITICS OF AUTHENTICITY: CIVIC INDIVIDUALISM AND THE CULTURAL ROOTS OF GAY

Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University. Ronald Jacobs is an Associate Professor of Sociology at University at Albany, SUNY. Philip Smith is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale University.

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