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<p>List of Contributors x</p> <p>Introduction 1<br /><i>Mark D. Jacobs and Nancy Weiss Hanrahan</i></p> <p><b>PART I PROBLEMS OF THEORY AND METHOD 15</b></p> <p>1 Structure, Culture and Agency 17<br /><i>Margaret S. Archer</i></p> <p>2 Culture and Cognition 35<br /><i>Albert J. Bergesen</i></p> <p>3 Difference and Cultural Systems: Dissonance in Three Parts 48<br /><i>Nancy Weiss Hanrahan</i></p> <p><b>PART II CULTURAL SYSTEMS 63</b></p> <p>4 Culture in Global Knowledge Societies: Knowledge Cultures and Epistemic Cultures 65<br /><i>Karin Knorr Cetina</i></p> <p>5 Media Culture(s) and Public Life 80<br /><i>Ronald N. Jacobs</i></p> <p>6 "Religion as a Cultural System": Theoretical and Empirical Developments Since Geertz 97<br /><i>Rhys H. Williams</i></p> <p>7 Aesthetic Uncertainty: The New Canon? 114<br /><i>Vera L. Zolberg</i></p> <p>8 Pragmatics of Taste 131<br /><i>Antoine Hennion</i></p> <p><b>PART III EVERYDAY LIFE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING 145</b></p> <p>9 Music and Social Experience 147<br /><i>Tia DeNora</i></p> <p>10 Consumer Culture 160<br /><i>Daniel Thomas Cook</i></p> <p>11 Fame and Everyday Life: The "Lottery Celebrities" of Reality TV 176<br /><i>Andrea L. Press and Bruce A. Williams</i></p> <p>12 Labor for Love: Rethinking Class and Culture in the Case of Single Motherhood 190<br /><i>Maria Kefalas</i></p> <p><b>PART IV IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE 205</b></p> <p>13 New Developments in Class and Culture 207<br /><i>David Halle and L. Frank Weyher</i></p> <p>14 Sexuality and Religion: Negotiating Identity Differences 220<br /><i>Michele Dillon</i></p> <p>15 Race after the Cultural Turn 234<br /><i>Orville Lee</i></p> <p><b>PART V COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND CULTURAL AMNESIA 251</b></p> <p>16 Collective Memory: Why Culture Matters 253<br /><i>Barry Schwartz, Kazuya Fukuoka, and Sachiko Takita-Ishii</i></p> <p>17 Counter-Memories of Terrorism: The Public Inscription of a Dramatic Past 272<br /><i>Anna Lisa Tota</i></p> <p>18 Museums and the Constitution of Culture 286<br /><i>Jan Marontate</i></p> <p>19 Dilemmas of the Witness 302<br /><i>Robin Wagner-Pacifici</i></p> <p><b>PART VI THE CULTURE OF INSTITUTIONS 315</b></p> <p>20 Professions as Disciplinary Cultures 317<br /><i>Magali Sarfatti Larson</i></p> <p>21 Everyday Life and the Constitution of Legality 332<br /><i>Susan S. Silbey</i></p> <p>22 The Discourses of Welfare and Welfare Reform 346<br /><i>John W. Mohr</i></p> <p>23 The Culture of Savings and Loan Scandal in the No-Fault Society 364<br /><i>Mark D. Jacobs</i></p> <p><b>PART VII THE CULTURE OF CITIZENSHIP: LOCAL, NATIONAL, GLOBAL 381</b></p> <p>24 Civic Culture at the Grass Roots 383<br /><i>Paul Lichterman</i></p> <p>25 Public Vocabularies of Religious Belief: Explicit and Implicit Religious Discourse in the American Public Sphere 398<br /><i>John H. Evans</i></p> <p>26 Democracy and Globalization in the Global Economy 412<br /><i>Diana Crane</i></p> <p>27 The Autonomy of Culture and the Invention of the Politics of Small Things: 1968 Revisited 428<br /><i>Jeffrey C. Goldfarb</i></p> <p>28 Toward a Nonculturalist Sociology of Culture: On Class and Status in Globalizing Capitalism 444<br /><i>Nancy Fraser</i></p> <p>Bibliography 460</p> <p>Index 500</p>

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<b>Mark D. Jacobs</b> is Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason University. He is the author of <i>Screwing the System and Making It Work: Juvenile Justice in the No-Fault Society</i> (1990), as well as articles in such journals as <i>Administration and Society</i> and <i>The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society</i>. He served from 1994 to 1998 on the Executive Council of RC37 of the International Sociological Association. He has co-organized two international conferences at George Mason University for the Section on the Sociology of Culture of the American Sociological Association, and has edited <i>Culture</i> for that section since 2000.<br /> <p><b>Nancy Weiss Hanrahan</b> is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Women’s Studies Research and Resource Center at George Mason University. Her scholarly work, which addresses issues in cultural theory and criticism, is informed by her professional experience in the music business. She is the author of <i>Difference in Time: A Critical Theory of Culture</i> (2000) and a contributor to <i>Critical Theory: Diverse Objects, Diverse Subjects</i> (2003) and <i>Rethinking Social Transformation</i> (2001).</p>

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