Cultural Sociology (E-Book) von Les Back

Preface

Glossary of Terms

Part I: Theory and Method

1 Starting to Write a History of the Present Day: Culture and Sociology
David Chaney

2 Defining Cultural Sociology

3 Methodological Issues in Cultural Sociology

Part II: New Cultural Identities

4 Class, Culture and Social Difference

5 Gender and Sexuality

6 Racism, Race and Difference

7 Bodies and Identities

Part III: Fragmented Ideology

8 Politics and Culture

9 Globalization

10 Culture and Religion

Part IV: Leisure and Lifestyle

11 Popular Music: Place, Identity, Community

12 Fashion Logics and the Cultural Economy: The Social Power of Tastes, Aesthetics and Style

13 Food, Eating and Culture

14 Media, Culture and Public Life

References

Index

• A timely introductory overview to this increasingly significant field which provides invaluable summaries of key studies and approaches within cultural sociology
• Clearly written and designed, with accessible summaries of thematic topics, covering race, class, politics, religion, media, fashion, and music
• International experts contribute chapters in their field of research, including a chapter by David Chaney, a founder of cultural sociology
• Offers a unified set of theoretical and methodological tools for those wishing to apply a cultural sociological approach in their work

Andy Bennett is Professor of Cultural Sociology and Director of the Griffith Centre for Cultural Research at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. He has authored and edited numerous books includingPopular Music and Youth Culture,Cultures of Popular Music (2001),Remembering Woodstock (2004), andMusic Scenes (edited with Richard A. Peterson, 2004). He is Editor-in-Chief of theJournal of Sociology.

Laura Desfor Edles is Professor of Sociology at California State University, Northridge.

Margaret Gibson is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Griffith University.

David Inglis is Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen, UK. He has written in the areas of the history of social thought, historical sociology, the sociologies of culture, art and aesthetics, and the cultural sociology of globalization. He is founding editor of the journal Cultural Sociology.

Ronald Jacobs is Associate Professor of Sociology  at University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author ofRace, Media and the Crisis of Civil Society (2000) andThe Space of Opinion (2011), and co-editor ofOxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology (2011).

Ian Woodward is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Griffith University.