Culture And Cultural Studies - Bibliography

SOCIOLOGY INDEX
Swidler, Ann (1986), "Culture in Action:
Symbols and Strategies," American Sociological Review, 51: 273-286.
This theoretical article defines culture and how we use it.

Kunda, Gideon (1991), Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech
Corporation, Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Kunda's study of a high-technology firm proves that "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, 44: 733-45.
This is a more detailed look at the 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.

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: 273-86.

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.

Robert Kapsis. 1989. "Reputation Building and the Film Art World: The Case of Alfred Hitchcock." Sociological Quarterly 30: 15.

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.

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

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.

Frank Dobbin. 1992. "The Origins of Private Social Insurance: Public Policy and Fringe Benefits in America, 1920-1950." American Journal of Sociology 97: 1416-50.

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.

Calvin Morrill. 1991. "Management, Honor, and Organizational Change." American Journal of Sociology 97: 585-621.

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

Priscilla P. Ferguson and Sharon Zukin. 1995. "What Cooking?" Theory and Society 24: 193-199.

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.

Paul DiMaggio. 1987. "Classification in Art." American Sociological Review 52: 440-455.

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.

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.

Appelbaum, Richard P. 1970. Theories of Social Change. Chicago: Markham Publishing Company.

Berrien, F. Kenneth. 1968. General and Social Systems. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Boulding, Elise and Kenneth E. Boulding. 1995. The Future: Images and Processes. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Boulding, Kenneth. 1985. The World as a Total System. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.

Chirot, Daniel. 1994. How Societies Change. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.

Derber, Charles. 2003. People Before Profit. Picador: New York.

Durkheim, Emile. 1964[1893]. The Division of Labor in Society. George Simpson, Translator. New York: The Free Press.

Friedman, Thomas L. 2000. The Lexus and the Olive Tree. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Hawley, Amos. 1986. Human Ecology: A Theoretical Essay. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Harris, Marvin. 1991. Cannibals and Kings. New York: Vintage Books.

McMichael, Philip. 2000. Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective, 2nd Ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.

Nolan, Patrick and Gerhard Lenski. 2004. Human Societies: An Introduction to Macrosociology 9th ed . Paradigm Publishers: Boulder, CO.

Olsen, Marvin E. 1991. Societal Dynamics: Exploring Macrosociology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Pieris, Ralph. 1969. Studies in the Sociology of Development. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Rotterdam University Press.

Ritzer, George. 1996. The McDonaldization of Society. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.

Sanderson, Stephen K. 1991. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies, 2nd Ed. New York: HarperCollins Publishers.

Scientific American. 1963. Technology and Economic Development. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Sheldon, Eleanor Bernert and Wilbert E. Moore (Editors). 1968. Indicators of Social Change: Concepts and Measurements. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Sklar, Leslie. 1995. Sociology of the Global System, 2nd Ed. Baltimore, MA: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Vago, Steven. 1999. Social Change 4th Ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc..

Volti, Rudi. 1988. Society and Technological Change. New York: St. Martin’s Press.

Wagar, W. Warren. 1999. A Short History of the Future, 3rd Ed. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.