The new American cultural sociology / edited by Philip Smith.

Contributor Smith, Philip (Philip Daniel), 1964-

Imprint:Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Descriptionxvi, 279 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Consists of 16 previously published articles, edited for this volume and preceded by an introductory essay.

Note:Textuality and the postmodern turn in sociological theory / Richard Harvey Brown. - The computer as sacred and profane / Jeffrey C. Alexander. - AIDS and the discursive construction of homosexuality / Steven Seidman. - Fundamentalism and liberalism in public religious discourse / Robert Wuthnow. - Analytic and concrete forms of the autonomy of culture / Anne Kane. - The reception of Derrida's work in France and America / Michele Lamont. - Censorship, audiences, and the Victorian nude / Nicola Beisel. - The Devil, social change, and Jacobean theatre / Wendy Griswold. - Victorian women writers and the prestige of the novel / Gaye Tuchman, Nina Fortin. - The ambiguous and contested meanings of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial / Robin Wagner-Pacifici, Barry Schwartz. - Culture and social action / Ann Swidler. - Culture, structure, agency, and transformation / William H. Sewell, Jr. - Discourse, nuclear power, and collective action / William A. Gamson. - Moral boundaries, leisure activities, and justifying fun / Gary Alan Fine. - Honor and conflict management in corporate life / Calvin Morrill. - The role of cultural capital in school success / Paul DiMaggio.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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