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020			_a9781594515705
082			_a306.01 MEA
100			_aReed, Issac. (ed.)
245		0	_aMeaning and mehod: the cultural approach to sociology
260			_aLondon
260			_bParadigm
260			_c2009
300			_a289p.
365			_b9000
365			_dRS
520			_aCulture is increasingly important to American social science, but in what way? This book addresses the core issues of the sociology of culture-questions about the social role of meaning, along with those about the methods sociologists use to study culture and society-in a manner that makes clear their relevance to sociology as a whole. Part I consists of essays by leading cultural sociologists on how the turn to culture has changed the sociological study of organizations, economic action, and television, and concludes with Georgina Born's methodological statement on the sociology of art and cultural production. Part II contains a highly original, and at times heated, debate between Richard Biernacki and John H. Evans on the appropriateness of abstract and quantifiable coding schemes for the sociological study of culture. Ranging from the philosophy of science to the concrete, practical problems of interpreting masses of cultural data, the debate raises the controversy over the interpretation of culture and the explanation of social action to a new level of sophistication.
650			_aSociology-Philosophy
700			_aAlexander,Jeffrey C. (ed.)
942			_cB _2ddc