The new American cultural sociology /
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 wo...
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1998.
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| Series: | Cambridge cultural social studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Textuality and the postmodern turn in sociological theory / Richard Harvey Brown
- The computer as sacred and profane / Jeffrey C. Alexander
- AIDS and the discursive construction of homosexuality / Steven Seidman
- Fundamentalism and liberalism in public religious discourse / Robert Wuthnow
- Analytic and concrete forms of the autonomy of culture / Anne Kane
- The reception of Derrida's work in France and America / Michele Lamont
- Censorship, audiences, and the Victorian nude / Nicola Beisel
- The Devil, social change, and Jacobean theatre / Wendy Griswold
- Victorian women writers and the prestige of the novel / Gaye Tuchman and Nina Fortin
- The ambiguous and contested meanings of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial / Robin Wagner-Pacifici and Barry Schwartz
- Culture and social action / Ann Swidler
- Culture, structure, agency, and transformation / William H. Sewell, Jr.
- Discourse, nuclear power, and collective action / William A. Gamson
- Moral boundaries, leisure activities, and justifying fun / Gary Alan Fine
- Honor and conflict management in corporate life / Calvin Morrill
- The role of cultural capital in school success / Paul DiMaggio.
