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020			_a9780195377767
082			_a306 OXF
100			_aAlexander,Jeffrey C. (ed.)
245		0	_aOxford handbook of cultural sociology
260			_aNew Delhi
260			_bOUP
260			_c2012
300			_a818p.
365			_dPND
520			_aA cultural sociology, however, begins from the premise that ideas and beliefs retain autonomy from the social structures to which they refer and illuminate. Only after the internallogics of meaning have been discovered and understood―the codes, narratives, and rhetorical techniques―can the cultural be put back into social structure, and analyzed in a multidimensional way. Edited by Jeffrey Alexander, arguably the leading cultural sociologist in the world, and two other widely respected practitioners, Ron Jacobs and Phil Smith, these essays from an international cast of the best and brightest cultural sociologists cover topics in theory and method; power, politics, and states; economics and organization; mass media; social movements; religion; aesthetics; knowledge; and health. Organized by empirical areas of study rather than particular theories or competing intellectual strands, the editors demonstrate that cultural sociology is not so much as a specialized subfield of sociology but, rather, an intellectual approach that can be generalized across all the core fields of the discipline.
650			_aCulture
700			_aJacobs,Ronald N. (ed.)
700			_aSmith,Philip (ed.)
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