Title: The Oxford handbook of cultural sociology /
Authors: Alexander, Jeffrey C., 1947-; Jacobs, Ronald N.; Smith, Philip 1964-
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Culture Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Sociology Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Abstract: "There is a pressing need ... for an intervention that is responsive to the real developments and disagreements that are taking place within the field [of cultural sociology] itself rather than a sales pitch to onlookers and potential converts. We see our volume as answering this call. ... We wish to document and reflect on the independent debates and modes of thoughts that have developed therein. In order to provide the rationale for this approach, we offer an account of the origins of cultural sociology and how it has grown into the maturity it enjoys today."--P. 5.
Contents: Introduction: Cultural sociology today / Jeffrey C. Alexander, Ronald N. Jacobs, and Philip Smith -- Cultural sociology as research program: post-positivism, meaning, and causality / Isaac Ariail Reed -- Rationalization processes inside cultural sociology / Richard Biernacki -- Four ways to measure culture: social science, hermeneutics, and the cultural turn / John W. Mohr and Craig Rawlings -- Culture and the economy / Carlo Tognato -- Culture and economic life / Lyn Spillman -- From moral sentiments to civic engagement: sociological analysis as responsible spectatorship / Robin Wagner-Pacifici -- Reinventing the concept of civic culture / Paul Lichterman -- Cultural sociology and civil society in a world of flows: recapturing ambiguity, hybridity, and the political / Gianpaolo Baiocchi -- Mediatized disasters in the Global Age: on the ritualization of catastrophe / Simon Cottle -- Media, intellectuals, the public sphere, and the story of Barack Obama in 2008 / Eleanor Townsley --