Culture And Cultural Studies Bibliography

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Swidler, Ann (1986), "Culture in Action:
Symbols and Strategies," American Sociological Review. Defines culture and how we use it.

Kunda, Gideon (1991), Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech
Corporation, Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
"geeks" do have a culture, and that it is very important in defining and motivating work groups.

Fine, Gary Alan (1979), "Small Groups and Culture Creation," American Sociological Review. Ways in which groups create culture.

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.

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.

Clifford Geertz: The Interpretation of Culture. New York 1973.

Ruth Benedikt: Patterns of Culture. London 1971.

Ralph Linton: The Tree of Culture. New York 1955.

T.N. Madan: Culture and Development. Delhi 1983.

B. Malinowski: A Scientific Theory of Culture. New York 1965.

Books On Cultural Studies

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Raymond Williams's Sociology of Culture : A Critical Reconstruction
Book by Paul Jones - April 3, 2004
In charting the growth of Williams's sociology of culture, this volume explores the complex and conflictual relations between sociology, cultural studies and literary theory. While including an overview of central themes throughout his work, in particular it unlocks his late sociology of culture. Williams's critique of Birmingham cultural studies; his use of an Adorno-like approach to 'cultural production'; his 'social formalist' alternative to structuralism and post-structuralism and his later approach to 'the media'.

Freaks, Geeks and Cool Kids: American Teenagers, Schools, and the Culture of Consumption
Book by Murray, Jr. Milner - March 1, 2004
Sociologist Murray Milner argues that consumer culture has greatly impacted the way our youth relate to one another and understand themselves and society.

Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite : Eating Romanticism
Book by Timothy Morton (Editor) - January 17, 2004
Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite is an important book that compellingly shows how high theory and cultural studies can be on the same menu.
What kind of object is food, and what kind of engagement with the world is eating? The essays in Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite take up such unlikely questions with a remarkable combination of historical specificity and theoretical inventiveness.
The collection considers the full range of social, cultural, political and philosophical phenomena associated with food in the Romantic period, reconsidering issues of race, class and gender, as well as those of colonialism, imperialism, and science. Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite brings two major critical impulses within the field of Romanticism to bear upon an important and growing field of research: appetite and its related discourses of taste and consumption.

Cultural Work: Understanding the Cultural Industries (Routledge Harwood Studies in Cultural Policy) Book by Andrew Beck - January 1, 2003
Why do studies of film, popular music and television frequently talk about consumers rather than those who produce the work?
And what do we actually know about those involved in the creative industries?
Cultural Work examines the conditions of the production of culture. It maps the changed character of work within the cultural and creative industries, examines the increasing diversity of cultural work and offers new methods for analyzing and thinking about cultural workplaces.

The Rise of a Jazz Art World
Book by Paul Lopes
"Lopes has written a richly informative and highly readable book that is a welcome addition to the growing number of academic studies that engage with musical styles as the lifeblood of 'scenes' -- living cultures producing a verve and commitment that remain hard to fathom for those on the 'outside.'" American Journal of Sociology

The Cultural Industries
Book by David Hesmondhalgh
What are the "cultural industries"? What role do they play in contemporary society? How are they changing?
The Cultural Industries combines a political economy approach with the best aspects of cultural studies, sociology, communication studies and social theory to provide an overview of the key debates surrounding cultural production.

Cultural Sociology in Practice (21st-Century Sociology) Book by Laura Desfor Edles
Cultural Sociology in Practice is a concise introduction to the burgeoning new field of cultural sociology. After breaking down the term "culture" into three separate meanings - culture as artistic activity, as a way of life, and as a pattern of shared symbols - the book then applies these various meanings to cultural events, artifacts, and practices.
Part I demonstrates how culture and society intersect through religion, ideology, the media, pop culture, and race. Part II offers a primer on cultural methodology.

Cultural Theory: The Key Thinkers (Routledge Key Guides)
Book by Andrew Edgar (Editor), Peter Sedgwick (Editor)
A perfect companion to the recently published Key Concepts in Cultural Theory, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of the key terms, arguments, and theories relating to issues in cultural theory.

Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides) Book by Peter Sedgewick, Andrew Edgar (Editors)
This comprehensive volume allows students to quickly and accurately come to grips with the key terms encountered in cultural theory today. Covers topics such as: Deconstruction, Epistemology, Feminism, Hermeneutics, Holism, Methodology, Postmodernism, Semiotics, Sociobiology and many more. Also features a useful bibliography of essential texts in cultural theory.

Class-Passing: Social Mobility In Film And Popular Culture (September 30, 2005)
Book by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Oprah Winfrey, Donald Trump, Roseanne Barr, and Britney Spears typify class-passers, those who claim different socioeconomic classes as their own, asserts Gwendolyn Audrey Foster in Class-Passing: Social Mobility in Film and Popular Culture. According to new rules of social standing in American popular culture, class is no longer defined by wealth, birth, or education. Instead, today’s notion of class reflects a socially constructed and regulated series of performed acts and gestures rooted in the cult of celebrity.

The Minds of Marginalized Black Men: Making Sense of Mobility, Opportunity, and Future Life Chances (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)
Book by Alford A., Jr. Young - Dec-2, 2003
We hear much about the "culture of poverty" that keeps poor black men poor, but we know little about how such men understand their social position and relationship to the American dream. Examines how twenty-six poverty-stricken African American men from Chicago view their prospects for getting ahead. It documents their definitions of good jobs and the good life--and their beliefs about whether and how these can be attained.

Comparative Studies of Culture and Power (Comparative Social Research)
Book by Fredrik Engelstad.
The "cultural turn" in sociology created a new interest in power questions. This has led to a renewed interest in conceptual discussions of power in the field of culture studies, whereas empirical work is still less developed. Comparative Studies of Culture and Power sets the focus on the uses of cultural and symbolic means in struggles for hegemony. Gender specific uses of rhetorical techniques is one salient theme.

Confronting Culture: Sociological Vistas Book by David Inglis - Sept 1, 2003
The study of culture is crucial for understanding many of the most important aspects of human life. Sociologists have offered valuable and provocative insights into the nature of cultural life. Ideas and viewpoints that together make up the specifically sociological study of culture. Confronting Culture offers a clear and accessible introduction to the complex field of the sociology of culture.
Inglis and Hughson critically discuss the key contributions made to the study of culture by different streams of thought within sociology. They examine the nature of cultural matters as perceived by classical sociology, the Frankfurt School, English and American mass culture theorists, culturalists and cultural materialists, semioticians, poststructuralists and postmodernists, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, and scholars within the ‘production of culture’ paradigm.

The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology by Jeffrey C. Alexander - August 1, 2003 Book
In this pathbreaking work, Jeffrey Alexander argues for a strong program in cultural sociology - one that gives culture the predominant place and "autonomy" it deserves. Using a wide range of empirical case studies, from Watergate and technology to war, trauma, and the Holocaust, Alexander demonstrates how cultural structures translate into concrete actions and institutions.
A work that will change the way sociologists think about culture and the social world.

Sociology On Culture
Book by John R. Hall, Mary Jo Neitz, Marshall Battani - August 1, 2003
Because the sociology of culture has grown so much and cultural studies have proliferated so widely over the past
quarter-century, there has been no easy way to obtain an informed introduction to the myriad issues at stake. Now, Sociology on Culture offers a wide-ranging and probing overview of sociological approaches to culture, their major arguments, and their findings.

Prime Time Animation: Television Animation and American Culture
Book by Carole A. Stabile (Editor), Mark Harrison (Editor) - April 1, 2003
Contributors examine specific programs like The Powerpuff Girls, Daria, The Simpsons, Ren and Stimpy and South Park from the perspective of fans, exploring fan cybercommunities, investigating how ideas of "class" and "taste" apply to recent TV animation, and addressing themes such as irony, alienation, and representations of the family.

Visual Culture
Book by Richard Howells - April 1, 2003
Visual Culture is a book on visual literacy, exploring how meaning is both made and transmitted in an increasingly visual world. It is designed to introduce students to the analysis of all kinds of visual texts, whether drawings, paintings, photographs, films, advertisements, television programs or new media forms. Visual Culture provides an ideal introduction for students taking courses in visual culture and communication in a wide range of disciplines, including media and cultural studies, sociology, art history and design.

Contemporary Cultural Theory
Book by Andrew Milner, Jeff Browitt - January, 2003
This lucid and concise overview brings a much-needed sense of historical and theoretical scale to the growth of cultural studies.

The Claims of Culture : Equality and Diversity in the Global Era Book by Seyla Benhabib
Maintaining that cultures are themselves torn by conflicts about their own boundaries, Seyla Benhabib challenges the assumption shared by many theorists and activists that cultures are clearly defined wholes. She argues that much debate, including that of "strong" multiculturalism, which sees cultures as distinct pieces of a mosaic, is dominated by this faulty belief, one with grave consequences for how we think injustices among groups should be redressed and human diversity achieved.  The Claims of Culture offers invaluable insight to all those, whether students or scholars, lawyers or policymakers, who strive to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of cultural politics in the twenty-first century.

A Glossary of Cultural Theory
Book by Peter Brooker
A Glossary of Cultural Theory provides the reader with lucid and up-to-date guidance through the vibrant and changing debates in cultural studies and related disciplines.

Sociology of Culture

Culture of Consumption

Cultures of Taste

Making Sense of Mobility

Rethinking Music Sociology

Culture and Power

Confronting Culture

A Cultural Sociology

Sociology On Culture

Prime Time Animation

Visual Culture

Understanding the Cultural Industries

Contemporary Cultural Theory

The Claims of Culture

Glossary of Cultural Theory

Cultural Theory The Key Concepts

The Rise of a Jazz Art World

The Cultural Industries

Cultural Sociology in Practice

Cultural Theory The Key Thinkers

Culture And Cultural Studies - Abstracts

Sociology and cultural studies: rhetorics of disciplinary identity 
Gregor McLennan, History of the Human Sciences, Vol. 11, No. 3, 1-17 (1998) DOI: 10.1177/095269519801100301 © 1998 SAGE Publications
Explores the interface between cultural studies and sociology - 'cultural studies succession' and 'postmodernist conjuncturalist cultural studies' - seek to dismiss sociology in favour of cultural studies, whilst 'socio logical revenge' - appears to turn the tables entirely.

The cultural studies' crossroads blues 
Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina 
European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, 65-82 (1998) DOI: 10.1177/136754949800100105 © 1998 SAGE Publications
Examines the current state of cultural studies. The need to delimit the field of cultural studies, proposing that the specificity of cultural studies as a way of politicizing theory and theorizing politics. Challenges that the contemporary context poses to cultural studies, and which cultural studies has been largely unable to address.

There is no South Korea in South Korean Cultural Studies: Beyond the Colonial Condition of Knowledge Production 
Myungkoo Kang, Seoul National University. 
Journal of Communication Inquiry, Vol. 28, No. 3, 253-268 (2004) DOI: 10.1177/0196859904264688 © 2004 SAGE Publications
This study examines the colonial condition of cultural studies in South Korea.

Historical returns: Transdisciplinarity, cultural studies and history 
Richard Johnson, Nottingham Trent University 
European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3, 261-288 (2001) © 2001 SAGE Publications
Questions posed by Carolyn Steedman prompted this article on what cultural studies wants from history. Transdisciplinarity, a new context for cultural studies, created by the 'cultural turn' in humanities and social sciences more generally.

Stealing Cultural Studies: Dialogues With Norman K. Denzin 
C. Richard King, Washington State University 
Journal of Sport & Social Issues, Vol. 30, No. 4, 383-394 (2006) DOI: 10.1177/0193723506292966 © 2006 SAGE Publications

Coming to Terms with Cultural Studies 
David L. Andrews, Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland and De Montfort University, United Kingdom 
Journal of Sport & Social Issues, Vol. 26, No. 1, 110-117 (2002) DOI: 10.1177/0193723502261007 © 2002 SAGE Publications
This article represents an abbreviated call to intellectual specificity in response to the growing, if somewhat nebulous, presence of cultural studies within the sociology of sport.

SOCIAL WORLD APPROACH TO CULTURAL STUDIES 
Mass Media and Gender in the Adolescent Peer Group 
MELISSA A. MILKIE 
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Vol. 23, No. 3, 354-380 (1994) DOI: 10.1177/089124194023003005 © 1994 SAGE Publications
Cultural sociologists and those studying socialization share an interest in understanding the ways in which media are important within social life. Studies of mass media include those focusing on the production of culture, the content of cultural products, and individual interpretations of media images.

Banality, book publishing and the everyday life of cultural studies 
Ted Striphas, Ohio University, USA 
International Journal of Cultural Studies
This article explores the institutionalization of cultural studies relative to changes taking place in North American universities and the global book publishing industry. I ask: what are the politics of publishing cultural studies?

Beyond Analytic Critique: Cultural Studies and/as Alternative Media Network
Vincent Rocchio, Communication Studies, Northeastern University
Abstract: Combines Fredric Jameson’s theory of positive hermeneutics with network distribution theory of New Media Studies to discuss how Cultural Studies can move beyond its loose-knit structure as an academic organization, and function instead as an alternative media network whose discourses could circulate within mainstream culture. 

Introduction to Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America
By Sophia A. McCLENNEN and Earl E. FITZ 
The genesis of the thematic issue Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America in the journal CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture stems from a growing conviction on the part of the guest editors of the issue that, given its vitality and excellence, Latin American literature deserves a more prominent place in comparative literature publications, curricula, and disciplinary discussions.

Towards a Map of the Current Critical Debate about Latin American Cultural Studies 
Julio ORTEGA 
Abstract: In his paper, "Towards a Map of the Current Critical Debate about Latin American Cultural Studies," Julio Ortega surveys the shifting disciplinary, critical, and methodological paradigms used to study Latin American culture in both the United States and Latin America.

Nabokov and World Literature
Charles Stanley ROSS
Abstract: In his paper "Nabokov and World Literature" Charles Stanley Ross thinks through the relationship between comparative literature and cultural studies by considering the absence of Nabokov's work in The Norton Anthology of World Literature.

The Study of Culture: Cultural Studies and British Sociology Compared 
Steve Baron, University of Stirling, Scotland 
Acta Sociologica, Vol. 28, No. 2, 71-85 (1985) DOI: 10.1177/000169938502800201 © 1985 Scandinavian Sociological Association
The emergence of Cultural Studies is traced and its current place in British intellectual life assessed. Throughout a companson is drawn between Cultural Studies and British Sociology. In the first part of the paper the 'original curriculum' of Cultural Studies is analysed in its making of a sharp break from previous disciplinary practices The foundation of Cultural Studies on theoretically defined grounds is then described In the second part of the paper the changes in Cultural Studies since its inception are described and the current critical potential of the practice assessed.

Black Cultural Studies 
David Marriott, University of Santa Cruz 
This chapter focuses on books published in the field of black cultural studies in 2004.

Cultural Studies: General 
TONY PURVIS 

Cultural Studies in Japan 
An Interview with Shunya Yoshimi 
Tomoko Tamari, Nottingham Trent University 
Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 23, No. 7-8, 305-314 (2006) DOI: 10.1177/0263276406073232 © 2006 Theory, Culture & Society Ltd.
Focuses on the history and current developments of cultural studies in Japan. Shunya Yoshimi is one of the leading figures in cultural studies in Japan since its introduction in the mid-1990s. He is currently engaged in the task of developing cultural studies in Asia with younger generations of scholars and to this end has helped established a new type of cultural movement, Cultural Typhoon, as well as contributing to expand Asian cultural studies networks, such as Inter Asia Cultural Studies. He argues that cultural studies has been questioning the relationship between meaning and power in everyday life through a variety of concrete and practical fields. In fact, he argues, it is inevitable for cultural studies to ask questions about the politics, if we in cultural studies are to develop actual knowledge of cultural production and consumption today.

Reflections on the Development of Cultural Studies in Japan 
Tomoko Tamari, Nottingham Trent University 
Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 23, No. 7-8, 293-304 (2006) DOI: 10.1177/0263276406073231 © 2006 Theory, Culture & Society Ltd.
Although Japan had its own distinctive ‘pre-history’ of cultural studies, which produced some excellent research on popular culture, which can be traced back to the 1920s, the current state of cultural studies has been criticized by conventional mainstream academics; whereas the younger generation has been attracted by cultural studies as a new academic trend. An important new development in cultural studies in Japan is Cultural Typhoon.

Media Cultural Studies' Uncomfortable Embrace of Ethnography 
Patrick D. Murphy 
Journal of Communication Inquiry, Vol. 23, No. 3, 205-221 (1999) DOI: 10.1177/0196859999023003002 © 1999 SAGE Publications
This article explores ethnography's place in media cultural studies by examining obstacles that have frustrated ethnographic practice. The author argues that although audience ethnographies developed in cultural studies have nourished theory, most disparage fieldwork in favor of more abstract theoretical exercises. Resistance studies, postmodernism, and anthropology's encounter with post-structuralism are examined in relation to this tendency in cultural studies.

Telemedicine in South Dakota - A Cultural Studies Approach 
WARREN BAREISS, Austin College, Sherman, TX 
New Media & Society, Vol. 3, No. 3, 327-355 (2001) DOI: 10.1177/14614440122226128 © 2001 SAGE Publications
The term `telemedicine' refers to health care and health education transmitted over large distances via computer with interactive audio and video capabilities. Over the past decade, telemedicine has been widely hailed as a means of administering health care to rural areas where doctors are scarce. Most research on the subject emphasizes technological, regulatory, and utilitarian aspects of telemedicine. This study, however, develops a cultural studies perspective in order to examine how social relationships are negotiated with regard to telemedicine in a particular context.

'Media Wars': Journalism, cultural and media studies in Australia 
Graeme Turner, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland, Australia 
Journalism, Vol. 1, No. 3, 353-365 (2000) © 2000 SAGE Publications
The relationship between journalism and cultural studies in the tertiary education system in Australia has never been a comfortable one. Communications studies, journalism studies, media studies and cultural studies programmes have all developed over the last two decades, but in an institution-specific manner.

How can global journalists represent the 'Other'?: A critical assessment of the cultural studies concept for media practice 
Elfriede Fursich, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA 
Journalism, Vol. 3, No. 1, 57-84 (2002) © 2002 SAGE Publications
Many cultural studies scholars analyze media texts to show evidence of problematic representations of the 'Other'. I transfer these concepts to current global media practice, especially television journalism. As an exemplar, I use travel journalism as a site where representing the Other is the constitutive part of the work. Standard television production praxis is evaluated through insights from visual anthropology and cultural studies.

Cultural Studies, Critical Theory and Cultural Governance 
Kenneth Thompson, Open University 
International Sociology, Vol. 16, No. 4, 593-605 (2001) DOI: 10.1177/0268580901016004005 © 2001 International Sociological Association
It can be argued that, in the light of the `cultural turn' in sociology, the search for new sources of critical theory, might profitably begin by considering the contributions of the interdisciplinary field of cultural studies, particularly the lessons to be learned from the Frankfurt School and then from British cultural studies in dealing with the problem of reconciling radical critical theory with the demands of cultural policy and administration.

Problems in the Study of Democratization in Latin America 
Regime Analysis vs Cultural Studies 
Paulo J. Krischke, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil 
International Sociology, Vol. 15, No. 1, 107-125 (2000) DOI: 10.1177/0268580900015001006 © 2000 International Sociological Association
This article is a comparative review of two mutually exclusive approaches to the study of democratization in Latin America, i.e. regime analysis and cultural studies, showing that they make important contributions to the understanding of elite behavior during institutional changes (regime analysis) and to the evaluation of cultural changes in society (cultural studies).

Theorizing in Qualitative Research: A Cultural Studies Perspective 
Pertti Alasuutari, University of Tampere, Finland 
Qualitative Inquiry, Vol. 2, No. 4, 371-384 (1996) DOI: 10.1177/107780049600200401 © 1996 SAGE Publications
This article discusses the interplay between empirical research and theory in constructionist or cultural studies qualitative research. In cultural studies, theories are seen as different frameworks, not as universal theories about social mechanisms. That is why instead of generalizing understandings, cultural studies and other constructionist approaches aim to particularize understandings of the social. The latter implicates the local, while the former indirectly aims to obviate the local. Instead of assuming that any corner of social reality leads to the traces of some universals to be pointed out in the final analysis, in cultural studies a case study is understood to reveal a local and historically specific cultural or "bounded" system.

Data Quality and Data Quality Control in Cross-Cultural Studies 
Thomas Schweizer 
Cross-Cultural Research, Vol. 13, No. 2, 125-150 (1978) DOI: 10.1177/106939717801300203 © 1978 SAGE Publications
This paper applies some distinctions of the philosophy of science to the problem of data quality in cross-cultural studies.

A Review of Cross-Cultural Studies on Moral Judgment Development Using the Defining Issues Test 
Yong-Lin Moon 
Cross-Cultural Research, Vol. 20, No. 1-4, 147-177 (1986) DOI: 10.1177/106939718602000107 © 1986 SAGE Publications
Twenty cross-cultural studies on moral judgment development using the Defining Issues Test (DIT) were reviewed with respect to cross- cultural validity, age/education trends, gender difference correlations with other psychological factors, religion, urban-rural, delinquency, and familial/societal factors. By and large, results indicate that the DIT has similar psychometric properties (factor structure, internal consis tency, and reliability) and construct validity in non-American cultures.

Cross-Cultural Studies of Person Perception 
Effects of Ingroup/Outgroup Membership and Ethnic Schemata 
Pawel Boski, Wichita State University 
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 19, No. 3, 287-328 (1988) DOI: 10.1177/0022022188193002 © 1988 SAGE Publications
Two approaches to the study of intergroup/interpersonal relations, in/outgroup categorization (motivational) and schema-confirmation (cognitive), are introduced. These two concepts are integrated into a two-dimensional taxonomy, so that a stimulus person can appear as a schema-consistent or -inconsistent member of an in- or outgroup.

Infants Around the World: Cross-Cultural Studies of Psychomotor Development from Birth to Two Years 
Emmy E. Werner, 209 Walker Hall, University of California, Davis, California 95616. 
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 3, No. 2, 111-134 (1972) DOI: 10.1177/002202217200300201 © 1972 SAGE Publications
Comparisons were made of the findings of fifty cross-cultural studies of psychomotor development, from birth to two years, of contemporary groups of infants on five continents.

The Relevance of Familism in Cross-Cultural Studies of Family Caregiving 
Isela Luna, Young Mi Lim, Kangwon-do, Linda R. Phillips, Cynthia K. Russell
Although familism has been studied in both Mexican American and Anglo families, there is controversy about whether familism in both groups is the same. Research has shown great within-group variability, and in addition, the kinship structure in the two groups isfundamentally different. This article explores the cross-cultural issues in conceptualizing familism and its relevance to caregiving among Anglo and Mexican American caregivers.

CULTURAL STUDIES IN GERMANY REVISITED 
Horak R.
Source: Cultural Studies , Volume 16, Number 6, 1 November 2002, pp. 884-895(12)
Abstract: This contribution takes up the arguments developed in the essay 'Cultural Studies in Germany (and Austria): why is there no such thing?' (European Journal of Cultural Studies (1999), 2(1): 109-15). It refers, however,only to the German reception of cultural studies and focuses on the different ways cultural studies have become influential in various contexts since the 1970s.

Teaching Nomadism: Inter/Cultural Studies in the Context of Translation Studies 
Russell West
Source: Critical Studies, Cultural Studies: Interdisciplinarity and Translation. Edited by Stefan Herbrechter.
Abstract: The cultural conflicts and tensions typically examined by cultural studies, and exemplified in Dessaix' novel and its translation provide the basis for the concluding discussion on the models of subjective agency which a novel inter/cultural studies can offer students of translation studies today. - ingentaconnect.com

Violence in the Workplace of Professional Sport from Victimological and Cultural Studies Perspectives 
Kevin Young, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4 
International Review for the Sociology of Sport
Although the past few decades have seen a considerable growth in the number of victimological studies, these studies have generally been based on traditional notions of crime and victim. Consequently, victimology has offered only a very narrow and limited victim agenda which requires expansion.

Understanding the Relationships between Women and Sport: The Contribution of British Feminist Approaches in Leisure and Cultural Studies 
Margaret Talbot, Carnegie Department, Leeds Polytechnic, Leeds; England LS6 3QS 
The paper argues that because of the partial development of sports sociology in Britain, academic work on women and sport has been rooted in leisure and cultural studies, or has reacted from recreational provision policy. The areas of cultural and media studies have also provided useful frameworks within which feminists may work, in analysing sport as a popular cultural form. 

Scientific Literacy and Cultural Studies Project Abstract 
To date, science educators have not studied what students and teachers believe about the world, beliefs rooted and nurtured in the cultural environments in which students and teachers live. If one were speaking of a non-Western, developing nation, one would speak of students' traditional culture in contrast to the culture of science. Americans, on the other hand, assume that science is a natural part of American students' culture. There is, however, widespread disinterest in science. Also, American society is increasingly pluralistic, and there are several cultural subgroups traditionally under represented in science.

Bourdieu, the Sociology of Culture and Cultural Studies: A Critique 
Mary S. Mander 
European Journal of Communication
This article explores both the contributions and the drawbacks of the work of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Habitus and symbolic violence, terms central to Bourdieu's thought, are explicated, as well as his critical assessments of methodological and epistemological problems in current social scientific research. In particular the drawbacks of public opinion polls and survey research, and the problematics of the social scientist as social subject, are treated.

Cultural Studies, Critical Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis: Histories, Remembering and Futures
Terry Threadgold (Cardiff)
Abstract: In this paper I have explored some of the histories which inevitably connect, but also differentiate, critical discourse analysis and cultural studies.

Cultural analysis within linguistics - Is linguistics part of cultural studies? 
Kulturanalyse in der Linguistik - Ist Linguistik eine Kulturwissenschaft?
Herausgeberin/Editor: Antje Hornscheidt.

The Dialectics of Indigenous Culture and Change in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart 
Willie Hobbs III
Journal of Cultural Studies
Abstract: The nature and role of colonialism in the transformation, nay destruction of the African past, and the nature of that past itself, is a matter that is far from settled. While pioneer African writers like Chinua Achebe (in Things Fall Apart) see the destruction of traditional culture in the coming of the whites, Western critics like James Clifford question Achebe's assumption about the African (Igbo) world and western interference. For the latter, the African (Igbo) world was a society in a state of cultural hybridization, harbouring, as it were, the `germ' of its own change.

Forum: Cultural Geography and Cultural Studies - Geographical Research
Abstract: This forum discusses linkages between cultural geography and allied 'cultural' disciplines. A symposium on this topic – held at the 2005 conference of the Institute of Australian Geographers in Armidale – was triggered by the targeted inclusion of geography in a cross-disciplinary network funded by the Australian Research Council.

Measures of Pleasures: Cross-Cultural Studies and the European Integration 
SLAWOMIR J. MAGALA 
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) 
Abstract: Measuring culture originated in cultural anthropology, but all social sciences contributed to comparative cultural studies. Tracing critical approaches towards a measurement of cultural values one is bound to strip the biases and stereotypes bare and to invade numerous academic fiefs. Hofstede defined interdisciplinary cultural dimensions but failed to anchor studying of culture's consequences in the academia.

CULTURAL STUDIES, VICTORIAN STUDIES, AND GRADUATE EDUCATION
John Kucich
Abstract: LIKE MANY OTHER PEOPLE these days, I’m concerned about the speed-up in graduate education. The chief cause of our students’ premature professionalization is, of course, the terrible job market — which John Guillory has faulted for propagating intellectual shallowness among our students, by forcing them to become active scholars too soon.

Cultural studies and discourse analysis: A dialogue on language and identity. London: Sage, 2001.
CHRIS BARKER & DARIUSZ GALASINSKI, Diana Eades
What do these terms from the discipline of cultural studies mean? Do they have any relevance to the study of language and identity? If these are questions you have found yourself pondering, then Cultural studies and discourse analysis (CSDA) is a book you should read.

Cultivating International Cross-Cultural Understanding for the Development of Teacher Knowledge
Betty Christine Eng, JoAnn I. Phillion, Ming Fang He
Abstract: This paper session discusses the international cross-cultural understanding that is developed by Hong Kong students through reading of classroom and teaching stories from Canada and China in a two-year research project.The paper: 1) explores new ways to cultivate and enhance cross-cultural understanding in teacher education; 2) proposes stories of experience as a way of shaping and informing teacher knowledge; 3) discusses how students making meaning from stories provide a critical and reflective understanding of their personal and professional identities; and 4) describes the on-line exchange and how it contributes to developing international cross-cultural understanding.

Television and cultural studies: Unfinished business 
Graeme Turner, University of Queensland, Australia 
International Journal of Cultural Studies
The spread of deregulatory and privatizing public policies in relation to television, and the disarticulation of television from the idea of the national community and from the role of the citizen, have posed new problems for theorizing the relation between television and its audiences.