From Sociology to Cultural Studies: New Perspectives

The question of how to understand culture and society has engaged passionate interest across the social sciences and humanities in recent decades. From Sociology to Cultural Studies brings together exciting new empirical work on topics from jazz, architecture, grassroots social movements, inner–city schools, and the television viewing culture to international relations and black women′s sexuality – as well as more programmatic theoretical and methodological reflections – to address this issue.
Placing sociologists of culture such as Michael Schudson, Michele Lamont, Steven Seidman, Judith Stacey, and Herman Gray in conversation with scholars from anthropology, history, literary studies and "cultural studies" more broadly defined, the volume suggest ways that cultural analysis can become more socially grounded, while also challenging sociology to learn from analytic perspectives developed outside the discipline.

Spis treści:
List of Contributors.
Preface.
Introduction: Engaging Sociology and Cultural Studies: Disciplinarity and Social Change: Elizabeth Long (Rice University).
Part I: Thinking Through Memory and Tradition:.
1. Relativizing Sociology: The Challenge of Cultural Studies: Steven Seidman (State University of New York at Albany).
2. Reading Architecture in the Holocaust Museum: A Method and an Empirical Illustration: Magali Sarfatti Larson (Temple University).
3. Subject Crises and Subject Work: Repositioning DuBois: Jon Cruz (University of California, Santa Barbara).
4. Conserving Cultural Studies: Andres Goodwin and Janet Wolff (University of San Francisco and University of Rochester).
Part II: Reframing Popular Forms and Usages:.
5. Monsters and Muppets: The History of Childhood and Techniques of Cultural Analysis: Chandra Mukerji (University of California, San Diego).
6. Rewriting the Pleasure/Danger Dialectic: Tricia Rose (New York University).
7. S ituating Television in Everyday Life: Reformulating a Cultural Studies Approach to the Study of Television Use: Ron Lembo (Amherst College).
8. Facing Up to What′s Killing Us: Artistic Practice and Grassroots Social Theory: George Lipsitz.
Part III: Relating Cultural Processes and Social Inequality:.
9. Colliding Moralities Between Black and White Workers: Michele Lamont (Princeton University).
10. The Ideology of Intensive Mothering: A Cultural Analysis of the Best–Selling ′Gurus′ of Appropriate Child–rearing: Sharon Hays (University of Virginia).
11. Mexican American Youth and the Politics of Caring: Angela Valenzuela (Rice University).
12. Jazz Tradition, Institutional Formation, and Cultural Practice: The Canon and the Street as Frameworks for Oppositional Black Cultural Politics: Herman Gray (University of California, Santa Cruz).
Part IV: Engaging Disciplinarity and Other Politics of Knowledge:.
13. The Social Construction of "Social Cunstruction": Notes on "Teddy Bear Patriarchy": Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego).
14. Critical Cultural Studies as One Power/Knowledge Like, Among, and In Engagement with Others: George Marcus (Rice University).
15. The Men We Left Behind Us, or Reading Our Br(others): Narratives Around and About Feminism from White, Leftwing, Academic Men: Judith Newton and Judith Stacey (University of California at Davis and University of Southern California).
16. Re–Inventing Cultural Studies: Remembering for the Best Version: Richard Johnson (Nottingham Trent University).
17. Whither Cultural Studies?: Ellen Messer–Davidow (University of Minnesota).
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Elizabeth Long is Associate Professor of Sociology at Rice University. A former chair of the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association, she is author of The American Dream and the Best Selling Novel (Blackwell ), and is currently completing work on Reading Together, Women′s Reading Groups and the Making of America

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The question of how to understand culture and society has engaged passionate interest across the social sciences and humanities in recent decades. From Sociology to Cultural Studies brings together exciting new empirical work on topics from jazz, architecture, grassroots social movements, inner–city schools, and the television viewing culture to international relations and black women′s sexuality – as well as more programmatic theoretical and methodological reflections – to address this issue.
Placing sociologists of culture such as Michael Schudson, Michele Lamont, Steven Seidman, Judith Stacey, and Herman Gray in conversation with scholars from anthropology, history, literary studies and "cultural studies" more broadly defined, the volume suggest ways that cultural analysis can become more socially grounded, while also challenging sociology to learn from analytic perspectives developed outside the discipline.