Bibliography

 

 

General

Pierre Bourdieu.  1984.  Distinction:  A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste.  Cambridge:  Harvard University Press.

                        .  1992.  The Rules of Art:  Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field.  Stanford:  Stanford University Press.

Michèle Lamont.  1992.  Money, Morals, and Manners:  The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Howard S. Becker.  1982.  Art Worlds.  Berkeley:  University of California Press.

Bennett M. Berger.  1995.  An Essay on Culture:  Symbolic Structure and Social Structure.  Berkeley:  University of California Press.

Robert Wuthnow.  1987.  Meaning and Moral Order:  Explorations in Cultural Analysis.  Berkeley:  University of California PresS.

Margaret Archer.  1988.  Culture and Agency:  The Place of Culture in Social Theory.  New York:  Cambridge University Press.

 

Readers

Lyn Spillman (ed.), Cultural Sociology. 2002. London: Blackwell Publishers.

Michèle Lamont and Marcel Fournier (eds.).  1992.  Cultivating Differences:  Symbolic Boundaries and the Making of Inequality.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Diana Crane (ed.).  1994.  The Sociology of Culture.  Oxford:  Blackwell Publishers.

Jeffrey C. Alexander and Steve Seidman (eds.).  1990.   Culture and Society:  Contemporary Debates.  New York:  Cambridge University Press.

 

Review Articles

Robert Wuthnow and Marsha Witten.  1988.  "New Directions in the Study of Culture."  Annual Review of Sociology 14: 49-67.

Wendy Griswold.  1993.  "Recent Moves in the Sociology of Literature."  Annual Review of Sociology 19: 455-467.

Richard A. Peterson.  1979.  "Revitalizing the Culture Concept."  Annual Review of Sociology 8:137-166.

Chandra Mukerji and Michael Schudson.  1986.   "Popular Culture."  Annual Review of Sociology 12: 44-61.


The Sociology of Culture

Wendy Griswold.  1988.  "A Methodological Approach for the Sociology of Culture."  Sociological Methodology 14: 1-35.

Jeffrey C. Alexander and Philip Smith.  1993.  "The Discourse of American Civil Society:  A New Proposal for Cultural Studies."  Theory and Society 22:  151-207.

Ann Swidler.  "Culture in Action:  Symbols and Strategies."  American Sociological Review 51: 273-286.

William H. Sewell, Jr.  1992.  "A Theory of Structure:  Duality, Agency, and Transformation."  American Journal of Sociology 98:1-29.

 

Cultural Reception

Michael Schudson.  1989.  "How Culture Works:  Perspectives from Media Studies on the Efficacy of Symbols."  Theory and Society 18: 153-80.

Wendy Griswold.   1987.  "The Fabrication of Meaning:  Literary Interpretation in the United States, Great Britain, and West Indies."  American Journal of Sociology 92:  1077-1117.

Nicola Beisel.  1993.  "Morals versus Art:  Censorship, the Politics of Interpretation, and the Victorian Nude."  American Sociological Review 58:  145-62.

Mabel Berezin.  1994.  "Theatrical Form and Political Meaning:  State Subsidized Theater, Ideology and the Language of Style in Fascist Italy."  American Journal of Sociology 99:  1237-1286.

Cultural Identity

Wendy Griswold.  1991.  "American Character and the American Novel."  American Journal of Sociology 86:  740-65.

Stanley Lieberson and Eleanor O. Bell.  1992.  "Children's First Names:  An Empirical Study of Social Taste."  American Journal of Sociology 93:  511-54.

Nicola Beisel.  1990.  "Class, Culture and Campaigns against Vice in Three American Cities, 1872-1892."  American Sociological Review 55: 44-62.

Richard Peterson.  1992.  "Understanding Audience Segmentation:  From Elite and Mass to Ominvore and Univore."  Poetics 21:  243-58.

Margaret S. Archer.  1985.  "The Myth of Cultural Unity."  British Journal of Sociology 36: 333-353.

 

Collective Memory

Robin Wagner-Pacifici and Barry Schwartz.  1991.  "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial:  Commemorating a Difficult Past."  American Journal of Sociology 97:  376-420.

Barry Schwartz. 1991.  "Social Change and Collective Memory:  The Democratization of George Washington."  American Sociological Review 56:  221-36.

Gladys Engel Lang and Kurt Lang.  1988.  "Recognition and Renown:  The Survival of Artistic Reputations."  American Journal of Sociology 94:  79-109.

Gary Alan Fine.  1996.  "Reputational Entrepreneurs and the Memory of Incompetence:  Melting Supporters, Partisan Warriors, and Images of President Harding."  American Journal of Sociology 101:  1159-93.

 

Cultural Production

Pierre Bourdieu.  1995.  "The Market for Symbolic Goods."  Pp. 141-173 in The Rules of Art:  Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field.  Stanford:  Stanford University Press.

Paul D. Lopes.  1992.  "Innovation and Diversity in the Popular Music Industry."  American Sociological Review 57:  56-71.

William T. Bielby and Denise D. Bielby.  1994.  "'All Hits Are Flukes':  Institutionalized Decision Making and the Rhetoric of Network Prime-Time Program Development."  American Journal of Sociology 59:  1287-1313.

Robert R. Faulkner and Andy B. Anderson.  1987.  "Short-Term Projects and Emergent Careers:  Evidence from Hollywood."  American Journal of Sociology 92: 879-909.

 

Cultural Valorization

Priscilla P. Ferguson.  1998.  "A Cultural Field in the Making:  Gastronomy in 19th-Century France."  American Journal of Sociology 104:  597-641.

Shyon Baumann.  2001.  "Intellectualization and Art World Development:  Film in the United States."  American Sociological Review 66: 404-26.

Michèle Lamont.  1987.  "How to Become a Dominant French Philosopher:  The Case of Jacques Derrida."  American Sociological Review 93:  584-622.

Wesley Shrum.  1991.  "Critics and Publics:  Cultural Mediation in Highbrow and Popular Performing Arts."  American Journal of Sociology 97: 347-375.


Culture and Economy

Bruce G. Carruthers and Wendy Nelson Espeland.  1991.  "Accounting for Rationality:  Double Entry Book-Keeeping and the Rhetoric of Economic Rationality."  American Journal of Sociology 97:  31-69.

Mark Granovetter.  1985.  "Economic Action and Social Structure:  The Problem of Embeddedness."  American Journal of Sociology 91: 481-510.

David Strang and John Meyer.  1993.  "Institutional Conditions for Diffusion."  Theory and Society 22:  487-512.

Viviana A. Zelizer.  1978.  "Human Values and the Market:  The Case of Life Insurance and Death in 19th-Century America."  American Journal of Sociology 84: 591-610.

 

Culture and Organizations

Gary Alan Fine.  1992.  "The Culture of Production:  Aesthetic Choices and Constraints in Culinary Work."  American Journal of Sociology 97:  1286-94.

Neil Fligstein.  1985.  "The Spread of the Multidivisional Form among Large Organizations, 1919-1979."  American Sociological Review 50: 377-91.

Lauren Edelman.  1990.  "Legal Environments and Organizational Governance:  The Expansion of Due Process in the American Workplace."  American Journal of Sociology 95: 401-40.

James N. Baron, Frank R. Dobbin and P. Devereaux Jennings.  1988.  "Mission Control:  The Development of Personnel Systems in U.S. Industries."  American Sociological Review 53:  497-514.

Culture and Social Movements

Stephen Hilgartner and Charles L. Bosc.  1988.  "The Rise and Fall of Social Problems."  American Journal of Sociology 94:  53-78.

William A. Gamson and A. Modigliani.  1989.  "Media Discourse and Public Opinion:  A Constructionist Approach."  American Journal of Sociology 95: 1-37.

William H. Sewell, Jr.  1985.  "Ideologies and Social Revolutions:  Reflections on the French Case."  Journal of Modern History 37:  56-85.

David A. Snow, E. Burke Rochford, Jr., Steven K. Worden, and Robert D. Benford.  1986.  "Frame Alignment Processes:  Micromobilization and Movement Participation."  American Sociological Review 51: 464-481.


Miscellaneous

Wesley Shrum and John Kilburn.  1996.  "Ritual Disrobement at Mardi Gras:  Ceremonial Exchange and Moral Order."  Social Forces 75: 423-458.

David Brain.  1989.  "Discipline and Style:  The Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Social Production of American Architecture."  Theory and Society 18: 807-868.

Anne Bowler.  1991.  "Politics as Art:  Italian Futurism and Fascism."  Theory and Society 20: 763-794.

Richard Lachmann.  1988.  "Graffiti as Career and Ideology."  American Journal of Sociology 94: 229-250.