Co-opting Culture

B. Garrick Harden is visiting assistant professor of sociology at Lamar University. Robert Carley is a graduate lecturer in sociology at Texas A&M University.

• Chapter 1 ForwardPart 2 Part 1: TheoryChapter 3 Defrocking the "High Priest of Modernity": Giddens, Erickson, and AgencyChapter 4 Power, Culture, and Hegemony: A Theoretical Exploration of GesellschaftChapter 5 The Unicorn is Dead: Postmodernism, Consumption, and the Production of the "Self"Chapter 6 Some Brief Notes Toward a Labor-Based Theory of CulturePart 7 Part 2: Gender and SexualityChapter 8 Gender Queer Productions and the Bridge of Cultural Legitimacy: "Realness" and "Identity" in Paris is BurningChapter 9 Ambiguity Will Not Stand: An Exploratory Study of Transsexuality, and the Intimate Relationship between Sex, Race, Technology, Nature, and the "Nature" of DesirePart 10 Part 3: GlobalizationChapter 11 Inter(sex)tions: Gender, Culture, and GlobalizationChapter 12 Between Neighborhoods and Power: The Mediation of Joy by Argentinean "TV Conductors"Chapter 13 Modernity, Development, Hegemony: Social Change and Ethnic Assimilation in the Lower Rio Grande ValleyChapter 14 "Like the Wildest Creation of a Dream": Dialectics, Visualization Technologies, and Aesthetics in the Writings of Francis Younghusband, George Mallory, and the Members of the 1999 Mallory & Irvine Research ExpeditionPart 15 Part 4: Popular CultureChapter 16 Racial Determinism in the Narrative Setting of Dungeons and DragonsChapter 17 Heebsters: Community and Identity (Re)construction of Urban Jewish HipstersChapter 18 In Blog We Trust: An AntiphonChapter 19 Conspicuous Charity

This book is a rich and thick version of a 'new wave' in Sociology. In short, these sharp, very informed diagnoses of the parochial, reveal deep philosophical themes, rendered throughout with critical worry. Keep your eye on Harden, Carley, and their contributing colleaguessss