Originally published: 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Sociological Programs of cultural analysis -- 1. The Strong Program: origins, achievements, and prospects / Jeffrey C. Alexander and Philip Smith -- 2. 'Culture Studies' and the culture complex / Tony Bennett -- 3. The subaltern, the postcolonial, and cultural sociology / Raka Ray and Smitha Radhakrishnan -- 4. The cultural turn: language, globalization, and media / Mark Poster -- 5. Media evolution and cultural change / Joshua Meyrowitz -- 6. Re-imagining critique in cultural sociology / Nancy Weiss Hanrahan and Sarah S. Amsler -- Part II: Theories and methodologies in cultural analysis -- 7. Sociology and cultural studies: an interrupted dialogue / Nick Couldry -- 8. Lost in translation: feminist media studies in the new millennium / Suzanna Danuta Walters -- 9. What is 'the relative autonomy of culture'? / Jeffrey K. Olick -- 10. The cultural sociological experience of cultural objects / Robin Wagner-Pacifici -- 11. Formal modes of culture / John W. Mohr and Craig M. Rawlings -- 12. Discourse and narrative / Tammy Smith -- 13. The mechanisms of cultural reproduction: explaining the puzzle of persistence / Orlando Patterson -- Part III: Aesthetics, ethics, and cultural legitimacy -- 14. Social aesthetics / Ben Highmore -- 15. History, sublime, terror: notes on culture's failure and the social catastrophe / Gene Ray -- 16. Modern and postmodern / Peter Beilharz -- 17. New sociological narratives of morality under modernity: from subtraction to multiplicity / Mary Jo Neitz, Kevin McElmurry, and Daniel Winchester -- 18. Demystifying authenticity in the sociology of culture / David Grazian -- 19. Carnival culture / Karen Bettez Halnon -- Part IV: Individuals/groups/identities/and performances -- 20. Group cultures and subcultures / Gary Fine -- 21. Culture and self / Gary Gregg -- 22. From public multiculturalism to private multiculturality? / Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain -- 23. Bodies, beauty, and fashion / Maxine Leeds Craig -- 24. Gender performance: cheerleaders, drag kings, and the rest of us / Joshua Gamson and Laura Grindstaff -- 25. Rituals, repertoires, and performances in post-modernity: a cultural sociological account / Ronald N. Jacobs -- Part V: Culture and stratification -- 26. Cultural capital and tastes: the persistence of Distinction / David Wright -- 27. Access to pleasure: aesthetics, social inequality, and the structure of culture production / Ann Swindler -- 28. Status distinctions and boundaries / Murray Milner, Jr. -- 29. Culture and stratification / Omar Lizardo.

30. The conundrum of race in sociological analyses of culture / Alford A. Young, Jr. -- 31. Culture: liquid-modern adventures of an idea / Zygmunt Bauman -- Part VI: Making/using culture -- 32. Environment and culture / Trevor Hogan, Divya Anand, and Kirsten Henderson -- 33. Culture and the build environment: between meaning and money / David Gartman -- 34. The rise and fall of cyberspace, or, how cyberspace turned inside out / Martin Hand -- 35. Public institutions of 'high' culture / Victoria D. Alexander -- 36. Contemporary art and cultural complexity: the case of Chelsea / David Halle and Kim Robinson -- 37. Pop culture institutions: from production to aesthetics / Marshall Battani -- 38. The rise of new amateurs: popular music, digital technology, and the fate of cultural production / Nick Prior -- 39. Consumption and critique / Alan Warde -- Part VII: Cultures of work and professions -- 40. Work cultures / Robin Leidner -- 41. Cultures of service / Eileen M. Otis -- 42. Cultures of carework, carework across cultures / Pei-Chia Lan -- 43. Science cultures / Alex Preda -- 44. Medical cultures / Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good and Seth Hannah -- 45. Legal culture and cultures of legality / Susan S. Silbey -- Part VIII: Political cultures -- 46. Making things political / Nina Eliasoph and Paul Lichterman -- 47. The cultural constitution of publics / Yifat Gutman and Jeffrey C. Goldfarb -- 48. Cultures of democracy: a civil-society approach / Ming-Cheng Lo -- 49. National culture, national identity, and the culture(s) of the nation / Genevieve Zubrzycki -- 50. Nationalism as the cultural foundation of modern experience / Liah Greenfeld and Eric Malczewski -- 51. The cultural of the political: towards a cultural sociology of state formation / Xiaohong Xu and Philip Gorski -- 52. The 'soul of the citizen, ' the invention of the social: governing mentalities / Jackie Orr -- Part IX: Global cultures, global processes -- 53. Consumerism and self-representation in an era of global capitalism / Gary G. Hamilton and Donald Fels -- 54. The political economy of cultural production / Vincent Mosco -- 55. Analyzing culture through globalization / Carla Freeman -- 56. Globalization and cultural production / Denise D. Bielby -- 57. Media technologies, cultural mobility, and the nation-state / Scott McQuire -- 58. Tourism and Culture / Kevin Fox Gotham -- Part X: Cultural processes and change -- 59. Culture and collective memory: comparative perspectives / Barry Schwartz -- 60. From collective memory to commemoration / Hiro Saito -- 61. Movement cultures / Francesca Polletta -- 62. Cultural movements and the sociology of culture: the case of political consumerism / Sam Binkley -- 63. Migration and cultures / Yen Le Espiritu -- 64. Cultural diffusion / Elihu Katz -- 65. Cosmopolitanism and the clash of civilizations / Bryan S. Turner.