The Oxford handbook of cultural sociology / edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Ron Jacobs, Philip Smith.

Previously issued in print: 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cultural Sociology Today / Jeffrey C. Alexander, Ronald N. Jacobs, Philip Smith -- 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 Townsely -- Entertainment Media and the Aesthetic Public Sphere / Ronald N. Jacobs -- Rethinking the Relationship of African American Men to the Street / Alford A. Young Jr. -- Ethnicity, Race, Nationhood, Foreignness, Etc.: Prolegomena to a Cultural Sociology of Difference-Based Interactions / Giuseppe Sciortino -- Burning Schools/Building Bridges: Ethnographical Touchdowns in the Civil Sphere / Mats Trondman -- The Constitution of Religious Political Violence: Institution, Culture and Power / Roger Friedland -- Globalization, Culture and Religion / Kenneth Thompson -- Narrative and Social Movements / Francesca Polletta, Pang Ching Bobby Chen -- The Politics of Authenticity: Civic Individualism and the Cultural Roots of Gay Normalization / Steven Seidman, Chet Meeks, James Joseph Dean -- Cultural Sociology as a Research Program: Post-Positivism, Meaning, and Causality / Isaac Ariail Reed -- Rethinking Conflict and Memory: the case of Nanjing / Barry Schwartz -- Cultural Trauma: Emotion and Narration / Ron Eyerman -- The Chinese Construction and Repression of Trauma: The Rape of Nanjing / Rui Gao, Jeffrey C. Alexander -- Events as Templates of Possibility: An Analytic Typology of Political Facts / Mabel Berezin -- Cultural Pragmatics and the Structure and Flow of Democratic Politics / Jason L. Mast -- Consumption as Cultural Interpretation: Taste, Performativity and Navigating The Forest Of Objects / Ian Woodward -- The Force of Embodiment: Bodies, Dispositions and Culture / Arthur W. Frank -- Music Sociology in a New Key / Lisa McCormick -- Narrating Global Warming / Philip Smith -- Broadening the Strong Program in Cultural Sociology: Focus On Mundane Life in Organizations / Jade Lo, Nina Eliasoph -- Rationalization Processes inside Cultural Sociology / Richard Biernacki -- Inbetweenness and Ambivalence / Bernhard Giesen -- Four Ways to Measure Culture: Social Science, Hermeneutics, and the Cultural Turn / Craig Rawlings, John Mohr -- 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.

This book examines the independent debates and modes of thought that have developed in the field of cultural sociology. It describes a variety of pathways for engaging in cultural sociology, all of which offer a template for elucidating the ways that meaning shapes social life. It offers an account of the origins of cultural sociology and how it has grown into the maturity it enjoys today, focusing on the so-called "cultural turn"-an epochal transformation in the human sciences-and the need to reflect on what could be learned from adjacent disciplines about cultural analysis. It also explores the major differences and disagreements between a "cultural sociology" and a "sociology of culture," the impact of cultural sociology on other academic disciplines of inquiry, the tensions within the field, and a cultural sociological approach to power and solidarity.

Specialized.

Description based on print version record.