ABSTRACT
The thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides an unparalleled overview of sociological and related scholarship on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With 70 essays written by scholars from around the world, the book brings diverse approaches into dialogue, charting new pathways for understanding culture in our global era.
Short, accessible chapters by contributing authors address classic questions, emergent issues, and new scholarship on topics ranging from cultural and social theory to politics and the state, social stratification, identity, community, aesthetics, and social and cultural movements. In addition, contributors explore developments central to the constitution and reproduction of culture, such as power, technology, and the organization of work.
This handbook is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in a wide range of subfields within sociology, as well as cultural studies, media and communication, and postcolonial theory.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|62 pages
Sociological programs of cultural analysis
part II|60 pages
The place of “culture” in sociological analysis
chapter 12|9 pages
It goes without saying
part III|54 pages
Aesthetics, ethics, and cultural legitimacy
chapter 17|9 pages
From subtraction to multiplicity
part IV|58 pages
Culture and stratification
chapter 25|10 pages
Access to pleasure
part V|66 pages
Groups, identities, and performances
chapter 32|9 pages
Rituals, repertoires, and performances in postmodernity
part VI|86 pages
Making/using culture
chapter 36|9 pages
New amateurs revisited
part VII|60 pages
Cultures of work and professions
part VIII|78 pages
Political cultures
part IX|66 pages
Global cultures, global processes
part X|75 pages
Movements, memory, and change