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Richard A. Peterson. 1979. "Revitalizing the Culture Concept." Annual Review of Sociology 5: 137-66.
Ann Swidler. 1986. "Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies." American Sociological Review 51: 273-86.
Robert Wuthnow and Marsha Witten. 1988. "New Directions in the Study of Culture." Annual Review of Sociology 14: 49-67.
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
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.
Stanley Lieberson and Eleanor O. Bell. 1992. "Children's First Names: An Empirical Study of Social Taste." American Journal of Sociology 93: 511-54.
Sarah M. Corse. 1995. "Nations and Novels: Cultural Politics and Literary Use." Social Forces 73: 1279-1308.
Timothy J. Dowd. 2002. "Charting Race: The Success of Black Performers in the Mainstream Recording Market: 1940-1990." Poetics 30: 87-110.
Wesley Shrum. 1991. "Critics and Publics: Cultural Mediation in Highbrow and Popular Performing Arts." American Journal of Sociology 97: 347-75.
Prsicilla Parkhurst Ferguson. 1998. "A Cultural Field in the Making: Gastronomy in 19th-Century France." American Journal of Sociology 104: 597-641.
Michelle Lamont. 1987. "How To Become A Dominant French Philosopher: The Case of Jacques Derrida." American Journal of Sociology93: 584-822.
Jeffrey K. Olick and Joyce Rollins. 1998. "Social Memory Studies: From 'Collective Memory' to the Historical Sociology of Mnemonic Practices." Annual Review of Sociology 24: 105-40.
Robin Wagner-Pacifici and Barry Schwartz. 1991. "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Commemorating a Difficult Past." American Journal of Sociology 97: 376-420.
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.
Michael P. Allen and Anne E. Lincoln. 2004. "Critical Discourse and the Cultural Consecration of American Films." Social Forces 82: 871-94.
Gladys Engel Land and Kurt Lang. 1988. "Recognition and Renown: The Survival of Artistic Reputation." American Journal of Sociology 94: 79-109.
Barry Schwartz. "Postmodernity and Historical Repuation: Abraham Lincoln in Late Twentieth-Century American Memory." Social Forces 77: 63-103.
Mark Granovetter. 1985. "Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness." American Journal of Sociology 91: 481-510.
Frank R. Dobbin. 1992. "The Origins of Private Social Insurance: Public Policy and Fringe Benefits in America, 1920-1950." American Journal of Sociology 97: 1416-50.
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.
Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell. 1983. "The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in the Organizational Field." American Sociological Review 48: 147-60
David Strang and John Meyer. 1993. "Institutional Conditions for Diffusion." Theory and Society 22: 487-512.
Stephen R. Barley and Gideon Kunda. 1992. "Design and Devotion: Surges of Rational and Normative Ideologies of Control in Managerial Discourse." Administrative Science Quarterly 37: 363-400.
William A. Gamson and Andre Modigliani. 1989. "Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach." American Journal of Sociology 95: 1-37.
Marc W. Steinberg. 1998. "Tilting the Frame: Considerations on Collective Action Framing from a Discursive Turn." Theory and Society 27: 845-72.
Vincent J. Roscigno and William F. Danaher. 2001. "Media and Mobilization: The Case of Radio and Southern Textile Worker Insurgency, 1929 to 1934." American Sociological Review 66: 21-48.
Pierre Bourdieu. 1984. "The Aristocracy of Culture." Chapter 1 in Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Pp. 1-96.
Pierre Bourdieu. 1984. "The Habitus and the Space of Life-Styles." Chapter 3 in Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Pp. 169-225.
Pierre Bourdieu. 1984. "The Dynamics of the Field." Chapter 4 in Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Pp. 226-259.
Anthony King. 2000. "Thinking with Bourdieu and against Bourdieu." Sociological Theory18: 417-433.
Richard Guilianotti. 2002. "Supporters, Followers, Fans, and Flaneurs." Journal of Sport and Social Issues 26: 25-46.
Michael A. Messner, Margaret Carlisle Duncan, Kerry Jensen. 1993. "Separating the Men from the Girls: The Gendered Language of Televised Sports." Gender and Society 7: 121-37.
Ketra A. Armstrong. 1999. "Nike's Communication with Black Audiences: A Sociological Analysis of Advertising Effectiveness via Symbolic Interactionism." Journal of Sport and Social Issues 23: 266-86.
Alan Beardsworth and Alan Bryman. 2002. "Late Modernity and the Dynamics of Quasification: The Case of the Themed Restaurant." Sociological Review 47: 228-57.
Rick Fantasia. 1995. "Fast Food in France." Theory and Society 24: 201-43.
Wesley Shrum and John Kilburn. 1996. "Ritual Disrobement at Mardi Gras: Ceremonial Exchange and Moral Order ." Social Forces 75: 423-58.
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