The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology

Jeffrey Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University. Ronald Jacobs is Professor of Sociology at SUNY-Albany. Philip Smith is Professor of Sociology at Yale.

• 1. Introduction: Cultural Sociology Today ; Jeffrey C. Alexander, Ronald Jacobs, and Philip Smith ; PART I The Cultural Method in Sociology ; 2. Cultural Sociology as a Research Program: Post-Positivism, Meaning, and Causality ; Isaac Ariail Reed ; 3. Rationalization Processes inside Cultural Sociology ; Richard Biernacki ; 4. Four Ways to Measure Culture: Social Science, Hermeneutics, and the Cultural Turn ; John Mohr and Craig Rawlings ; PART II The Economic as Culture ; 5. Culture and the Economy ; Carlo Tognato ; 6. Culture and Economic Life ; Lyn Spillman ; PART III The Political as Culture ; 7. From Moral Sentiments to Civic Engagement: Sociological Analysis as Responsible Spectatorship ; Robin Wagner-Pacifici ; 8. Reinventing the Concept of Civic Culture ; Paul Lichterman ; 9. Cultural Sociology and Civil Society in a World of Flows: Recapturing Ambiguity, Hybridity and the Political ; Gianpaolo Biaocchi ; PART IV The Media as Culture ; 10. Mediatized Disasters in the Global Age: On the Ritualization of Catastrophe ; Simon Cottle ; 11. Media, Intellectuals, the Public Sphere, and the Story of Barack Obama in 2008 ; Eleanor Townsely ; 12. Entertainment Media and the Aesthetic Public Sphere ; Ronald Jacobs ; PART V Race and Immigration as Culture ; 13. Rethinking the Relationship of African American Men to the Street ; Al Young ; 14. Ethnicity, Race, Nationhood, Foreignness, Etc.: Prolegomena to a Cultural Sociology of Difference-Based Interactions ; Giuseppe Sciortino ; 15. Burning Schools/Building Bridges: Ethnographical Touchdowns in the Civil Sphere ; Mats Trondman ; PART VI Religion as Culture ; 16. The Constitution of Religious Political Violence: Institution, Culture and Power ; Roger Friedland ; 17. Globalization, Culture and Religion ; Kenneth Thompson ; PART VII Social Movements as Culture ; 18. Narrative and Social Movements ; Francesca Polletta and Bobby Chen ; 19. The Politics of Authenticity: Civic Individualism and the Cultural Roots of Gay Normalization ; Steven Seidman, Chet Meeks, and James Dean ; PART VIII Trauma as Culture ; 20. Rethinking Conflict and Memory: the case of Nanjing ; Barry Schwartz ; 21. Cultural Trauma: Emotion and Narration ; Ron Eyerman ; 22. The Chinese Construction and Repression of Trauma: The Rape of Nanjing ; Jeffrey C. Alexander and Rui Gao ; PART IX Events as Culture ; 23. Events as Templates of Possibility: An Analytic Typology of Political Facts ; Mabel Berezin ; 24. Cultural Pragmatics and the Structure and Flow of Democratic Politics ; Jason Mast ; PART X Materiality as Culture ; 25. Consumption as Cultural Interpretation: Taste, Performativity and Navigating The Forest Of Objects ; Ian Woodward ; 26. The Force of Embodiment: Bodies, Dispositions and Culture ; Arthur Frank ; 27. Music Sociology in a New Key ; Lisa McCormick ; PART XI Knowledge as Culture ; 28. Narrating Global Warming ; Philip Smith ; PART XII Classification and Ambiguity as Culture ; 29. Broadening the Strong Program in Cultural Sociology: Focus On Mundane Life in Organizations ; Nina Eliasoph and Jade Lo ; 30. Inbetweenness and Ambivalence ; Bernhard Giesen

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