The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology

1. Introduction: Cultural Sociology Today; Jeffrey C. Alexander, Ronald Jacobs, and 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 Normalization; Steven Seidman, Chet Meeks, and

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