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From Sociology to Cultural Studies New Perspectives [Hardcover]

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  • Category: Books (Social Science)
  • ISBN-10:  1577180127
  • ISBN-10:  1577180127
  • ISBN-13:  9781577180128
  • ISBN-13:  9781577180128
  • Publisher:  Wiley-Blackwell
  • Publisher:  Wiley-Blackwell
  • Pages:  544
  • Pages:  544
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Pub Date:  01-May-1997
  • Pub Date:  01-May-1997
  • SKU:  1577180127-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  1577180127-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 100783334
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This exciting collection of new essays suggests ways that cultural analysis can become more socially grounded, while also challenging sociology to learn from analytic perspectives developed outside the discipline.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. Situating 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 Appropril3:

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