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Cultural Things Sociology:     more books (100)

How To Do Things With Cultural Theory (Hodder Arnold Publication) by Matt Hills, 2005-08-26 The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican: Cultural Relations between the United States and Mexico, 1920-1935 by Helen Delpar, 1995-12-30 Archaeology as Cultural History: Words and Things in Iron Age Greece (Social Archaeology) by Ian Morris, 1991-01-15 Durkheim's Ghosts: Cultural Logics and Social Things by Charles Lemert, 2006-03-06 Too Much of a Good Thing: Mae West As Cultural Icon by Ramona Curry, 1996-04 The Racial Order Of Things: Cultural Imaginaries Of The Post-Soul Era by Roopali Mukherjee, 2006-10-06 Person, Place and Thing: Interpretive and Empirical Essays in Cultural Geography (Geoscience and Man) The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940 (Cultural Studies of the United States) by Miles Orvell, 1989-04-01 How Things Were Done in Odessa: Cultural and Intellectual Pursuits in a Soviet City by Maurice Friedberg, 1991-06 How Things Got Better: Speech, Writing, Printing, and Cultural Change by Henry Perkinson, 1995-04-25 The Cognitive Life of Things: Recasting Boundaries of the Mind by Lambros Malafouris, 2010-05-31 Where the Wild Things Are Now: Domestication Reconsidered (Wenner-Gren International Symposium) by Molly Mullin, Rebecca Cassidy, 2007-06-15 Material Cultures: Why Some Things Matter

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1. Janet Wolff - "Cultural Studies And The Sociology Of Culture"
   sociology of Consumption The meanings of things We shall examine the assumption that consumption is a meaningful activity. We do not eat simply to reproduce ourselves physically. In fact, all consumption is cultural. This signifies several things.  
   http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/issue1/wolff/wolff.html
   
   Extractions: IN VISIBLE CULTURE AN ELECTRONIC JOURNAL FOR VISUAL STUDIES Cultural Studies and the Sociology of Culture by J anet W olff I t is almost exactly ten years since I came to the United States from Britain, and exactly seven since I came to Rochester as Director of the Program in Visual and Cultural Studies. It is time to reflect on my complicated relationship to the discipline of sociology. And when I say that it is time, I don't mean this biographically, but more in relation to recent intellectual developments within both sociology and cultural studies, as well as to the (mostly) antagonistic relationship between the two, at least in this country. In my opinion, cultural studies at its best is Sociologists in the Humanities was only apparent, except in the material sense of my institutional location. My work didn't change radically (though I hope it has developed in the past decade). I did not re-train, or take another Ph.D. Again, this biographical fact is interesting, I think, not for its own sake, but because of what it says about the organization of disciplines in Britain and the United States, and about the study of culture in the late twentieth century. There are a number of issues here. First, given my background and training in European sociology and my involvement in interdisciplinary work, I don't think many departments of sociology in this country would have been prepared to give me a home. The discipline here has remained resolutely

2. Kearl's Guide To The Sociology Of Death: Death Across Time And Space
   IMAGES ACROSS CULTURES AND TIME "At birth we cry; at death we see why." "Birth is the messenger of death." we need crosscultural comparisons in order to of things, individuals' lives and deaths are inconsequential. FORCES CHANGING cultural DEATH only Mexico's cultural heritage but also  
   http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/death-1.html
   
   Extractions: Syrian proverb Like the climatologists who so eagerly awaited the close-up photographs of Jupiter and Saturn in order to understand the atmospheric dynamics of earth, we need cross-cultural comparisons in order to comprehend ourselves. "Death" is a socially constructed idea. The fears, hopes, and orientations people have towards it are not instinctive, but rather are learned from such public symbols as the languages, arts , and religious and funerary rituals of their culture. Every culture has a coherent mortality thesis whose explanations of death are so thoroughly ingrained that they are believed to be right by its members. It is here assumed that any broad-scale change in the relationships between the living is accompanied by modifications of these death meanings and ceremonies. The reverse may well also be true: Would there be a rash of suicides if it were to be conclusively verified scientifically that the hereafter is some celestial Disneyland? And what if the quality of one's experiences there was founded to be based on the quality of one's life? If you were to parachute down into some exotic culture, precisely how would you classify its

3. Cultural Studies Central
   Discover ideas, commentary, discussion and analysis focusing on contemporary culture from both popular and academic perspectives. It's the things we use and the people we talk about. The University of Birmingham Department of cultural Studies and sociology. The real "cultural studies central."  
   http://www.culturalstudies.net/
   
   Extractions: (Please go to http://www.washtech.org/day2/index.html for information on how to help the Amazon.com customer support workers.) Once the Reading Room is open, we will begin to add the following: Growth from one to several to many booksellers, large and small. We will also have links to books in the public domain. We have no plans to leave Amazon, but do wish our surfers to pay attention to the situations of workers in ALL e-commerce companies. We will very soon have reading groups dedicated to individual books with threaded discussions associated with each group. This will be the central and most important content of The Reading Room And we'll see what else . . .

4. John Law, Sociology Department, Lancaster University
   PhD programmes, drawing on staff in sociology, Women's Studies to help to build anew cultural studies of think about and appreciate the elusive, things that don  
   http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/jlaw.html
   
   Extractions: Organizing Modernity , Blackwell, £19.99 I moved to Lancaster in 1998 after many years at Keele University working in sociology and science and technology studies (STS). I greatly enjoy Lancaster for its interdisciplinarity, its enthusiasm for a mix of cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, feminist theory and - most particularly - STS. After four years at Lancaster I remain profoundly impressed by the commitment of its staff and students to talking across disciplinary boundaries, and their lack of concern with hierarchy or status. The result is a stunning intellectual milieu of I feel most privileged to be a part. I also greatly appreciate the area - on the edge of the Lake District - the most beautiful part of England, and one with which I have strong family ties. Walking and cycling calls on those clear days when the Lakeland hills are etched on the horizon.

5. Andrew Sayer, 'Critical And Uncritical Cultural Turns', Sociology Department, La
   http//www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/soc017as.html. value (prestige) of the symbolicand cultural capital of social distinction, and shows that things are not  
   http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/soc017as.html
   
   Extractions: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/soc017as.html There is no reason why a focus on cultural dimensions of social phenomena cannot be combined with analysis of other dimensions. It's therefore a pity that the turn was accompanied by either a wholesale marginalisation of economic issues and theory or else a 'dumbing down' of economic analysis to the level of token references to globalization or potted versions of the simplistic, and diversionary grand narrative of Fordism and post-Fordism. Ironically this has happened just at the time when neoliberal capitalism has been in the ascendancy, so that it has had to face remarkably little opposition from the more avant garde reaches of social theory. Even Stuart Hall, one of the main driving forces behind the cultural turn, and one who once argued that culture and economy had become indistinguishable, has recently acknowledged that the cultural turn has actually involved a turn away from economy (Hall, 1996):

6. Sociology Of Consumption: Social Practices - The Uses Of Things
   sociology of Consumption Social practices the uses of things. In contrast to meanings of things, Consumption is part of the cultural reproduction of social relations, a concrete  
   http://uk.geocities.com/balihar_sanghera/conpractices.html
   
   Extractions: Sociology of Consumption: Social practices - the uses of things In contrast to meanings of things, understanding consumer culture is a matter of social rather than textual analysis. It is a matter of understanding the ways in which meanings of things are part of the making of social relations and social order. Consumption is part of the cultural reproduction of social relations, a concrete process carried out through social practices in mundane life. The social order of consumption practices Mary Douglas provides a Durkheimian concern with moral order and social classification. Douglas argues that the flow of goods through consumption rituals maps out and solidifies complex networks of social relationship. As communicators, goods are primarily ‘markers’ that indicate social relationships and classifications. Through the public meanings attached to goods and their public uses, consumption organises social order by making visible social divisions, categories, ranks and so on. In general, social meaning is shifting and unstable. To take an example, the box of chocolates and flowers on Women’s Day. The meanings and rituals of consumption mark out the categories and classifications that constitute the social order. Crucially, this approach, unlike semiotics, connects goods intrinsically to social contexts and relations, to practices.

7. THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE
   Exploring Charging Models for Digital cultural Heritage goal study for practitionersof the sociology of knowledge exceptional and abnormal in things, but, on  
   http://www.trinity.edu/mkearl/knowledg.html
   
   Extractions: S OCIOLOGY OF K NOWLEDGE Before we go any further here, has it ever occurred to any of you that all this is simply one grand misunderstanding? Since you're not here to learn anything, but to be taught so you can pass these tests, knowledge has to be organized so it can be taught, and it has to be reduced to information so it can be organized do you follow that? In other words this leads you to assume that organization is an inherent property of the knowledge itself, and that disorder and chaos are simply irrelevant forces that threaten it from outside. In fact it's exactly the opposite. Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos... William Gaddis, JR, p. 25 According to C. Wright Mills, there is a perspective called the " sociological imagination " that can be used to " frame ," or interpret, perceptions of social life. In part, this imagination features a healthy skepticism, assuming that social appearances often aren't what they seem. But even more, this perspective involves an awareness toward the linkages between history and biography, between social structure and consciousness, and between "knowledge" and its socio-cultural contexts. It is this one of this discipline's approaches to critical thinking Perhaps no where is this imagination so exercised than in the sociology of knowledge , which studies the social sources and social consequences of knowledgehow, for instance, social organization shapes both the content and structure of knowledge or how various social, cultural, political conditions shield people from truth. It has been argued that the concept of knowledge is to sociology as the notion of attitude is to psychology: a notion so central that, in many ways, it is the foundation for the entire discipline.

8. An Interview With George Lakoff By James Stanlaw / Department Of Sociology & Ant
   brought to the study of societyfrom both sociology and anthropology-is the awareness of how much the there still were a lot of cultural things that are very different.  
   http://www.lilt.ilstu.edu/soa/html/lakoffinterview.htm
   
   Extractions: Counting Immoral Dangerous Political Metaphors, in the Flesh!: An Interview with George Lakoff (January 10, 2001) by James Stanlaw, Illinois State University The following is the complete text of the interview with George Lakoff (portions of which are found in the March, 2001 issue of Anthropology News) . Lakoff will also be a keynote speaker at the Ninth Annual SALSA Conference (Symposium About Language and Society) to be held at the U of Texas, Austin, from April 20-22 ( www.utexas.edu/students/salsa ). Reproduced with permission. One of the most exciting things about cognitive science is its breath, spanning everything from philosophy to anthropology, and for the past three decades U of California, Berkeley, linguist George Lakoff has been one the discipline's most original researchers. His book Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things is a standard treatise on categorization used in many cognitive anthropology courses. Metaphors We Live By (with Mark Johnson) and More Than Cool Reason (with Mark Turner) describe how metaphor and other tropes structure much of human thought, both in the everyday world and the realm of aesthetics. His 1996 book

9. Powell's Books - Used, New, And Out Of Print
   Featured Titles in sociologyGeneral Page 26 of 378 next. is it happily describedas dreaming things up Comments Offering what they call a 'cultural theory of  
   http://www.powells.com/subsection/SociologyGeneral.26.html

10. Can There Be A Cultural Sociology Of Ageing?
    Can there be a cultural sociology of Ageing? University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom ABSTRACT Despite the emergence of the Third Age and the attendant need to understand the lifestyles of the increasing numbers of people in of our birth will to a degree condition the ways we. perceive things, hence the differing attitudes and world views of  
    http://www.triangle.co.uk/eda/14-02/ab.pdf

11. Theology Today - Vol 41, No. 4 - January 1985 - ARTICLE - Cultural Anthropology:
    step in our understanding of the cultural basis of economic life and the sociology of culture. Arjun Appadurai; 2. The cultural biography of things commoditization as process Igor  
    http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/jan1985/v41-4-article2.htm
    
    Extractions: By Charles H. Kraft Whether it is in the application of one or another of the approaches of metaphysical philosophy, or in the use of historical perspectives infected with social evolutionism, or in the dependence upon philological perspectives that take little, if any, note of the plethora of insights into language that have come to us from the study of thousands of non-Western languages, from an anthropologist's perspective the discipline of theology seems not to have grown with the world. THE ACADEMIC discipline we know as Christian theology is a part of culture. It is amenable, therefore, to analysis from an anthropological or cross-cultural point of view. It is, furthermore, a discipline that has frequently incorporated the insights and perspectives of other disciplines. Though cultural anthropology, like theology, is but a human discipline and can claim no corner on truth, it is not unlikely that some of the insights developed by anthropologists might be found helpful for theologians. It is the intent of this article, in a far too brief and largely undocumented manner, to survey the kinds of issues that come to the mind of at least one anthropologist with a Christian commitment as he ponders this topic.

12. La Trobe University - Library - Bendigo -Sociology And Cultural
    sociology cultural Studies Online Sociological tour through Cyberspace sociologyresources arranged by index of links to all things sociological Social  
    http://library.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au/iserv/subjectguides/soccultst.html

13. The University Of Wisconsin Madison Department Of Rural Sociology
    environmental, gender, farm, and ethnicity/cultural identity movements The RuralSociology Major leads to careers in people can do positive things to address  
    http://www.drs.wisc.edu/notes/prospects/prospects.asp
    
    Extractions: First Second Third Fourth First: Most incoming undergraduates have little or no idea what sociology is all about, and many have never heard of the field at all. Here's a brief description of the field of sociology, and of why many students in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences are interested in studying sociology and rural sociology. Sociology is the application of the scientific method to studying how societies are organized, how societies change, and how social organization and social changes affect individuals, groups, and communities. Sociology is uniquely suited to exploring how factors such as new technologies, changing cultural values, shifting political systems, and fluctuations in economies are affecting our lives. The goal of sociological theory and research is to both explain and predict major changes in economic organization, politics, and cultural values, and to understand how these changes affect all of us as individuals and citizens, as members of families and communities, and as members of the global community. Rural sociologists focus on a specific set of issues (see below) that are of interest to many students in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. The perspective of rural sociology provides a broad view of how forces such as new technologies, globalization, changing social values, public policies, and the rise of new social movements (for example, environmental, gender, farm, and ethnicity/cultural identity movements) are related to each other, and how these forces affect rural people and communities. In addition, rural sociologists study local and practical issues such as rural community development, land use conflicts, the application of demographic methods to community planning, and the design of more locally oriented food systems.

14. Adorno's Sociology Of Music
    a finished musical sociology should take its bearings things and meaningful in themselves,things that invite consumer respects music as a cultural asset, but  
    http://www.uky.edu/FineArts/Music/curr_stu/Nelson/Adorno.html
    
    Extractions: Adorno's initial definition of the Sociology of Music is ". . . knowledge of the relation between music and the socially organized individuals who listen to it" (p. 1). Later, he suggests that ". . . a finished musical sociology should take its bearings from the social structures that leave their imprint on music, and on what we call musical life in the most general sense" (p. 219). He is interested in, among other things, the relation between "productive forces" and "circumstances of production." In the realm of music, "productive forces" can refer to: The "circumstances of production" are: Adorno asserts that "works [of music, and perhaps art in general] are objectively structured things and meaningful in themselves, things that invite analysis and can be perceived and experienced with different degrees of accuracy" (p. 3). Based on this view, he suggests seven "ideal types" of listeners, organized according to the "adequacy" of their hearing: the expert listener is characterized by entirely adequate hearing, or "structural hearing. In other words, they can recognize and identify the formal, compositional elements of the piece. "He [the listener] hears the sequence, hears past, present, and future moments together so that they crystallize into a meaningful context."

15. Cultural Studies [University Of Sussex Undergraduate Prospectus 2003]
    Modern Languages, Music, Philosophy, Politics and sociology. investigating the socialand cultural significance of and The Meaning of things, an exploration of  
    http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/publications/ugrad2003/culturalstudies.shtml
    
    Extractions: Contents Degrees Full List of Subjects Cultural Studies offers an exciting chance to study culture in all its forms: from opera to soap opera; in settings worldwide, from the UK and Europe to China and Africa; and in different historical periods, from the Ming dynasty to the present. Studying cultures alongside another subject offers a second set of knowledge and skills and potential openings to take into the workplace. Cultural Studies at Sussex deliberately goes beyond the usual present-day UK-based analysis, to define culture in the widest sense in terms of human and social behaviour, historical period and geographical setting. The programme therefore provides an exceptionally rich and varied opportunity for study. At the same time, we have taken care to focus and structure the programme around important themes so that you develop your intellectual skills to the same high standard as other degrees. Cultural Studies is taught by tutors with expertise in many fields: literature, media, the creative arts and the social sciences are all represented. The teaching team includes top-rated research faculty working on topics as diverse as Hollywood; the 'Carry On' films; death and commemoration; magic and superstition; culture in early modern England and Europe; shopping; and ritual, performance and spectacle. The enthusiastic team of tutors, including winners of teaching awards, combine experience in tried and tested ways of teaching with a commitment to new and innovative approaches.

16. Sociology Of Religion: The Cultural Significance Of New Religious Movements: The
    sociology of Religion Fall, 2001 The cultural Significance of have made about assessingthe cultural significance of new religion highlights two things (1) it  
    http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0SOR/3_62/79353383/print.jhtml
    
    Extractions: Author/s: Lorne L. Dawson Lorne L. Dawson [*] This paper advances previous arguments I have made about assessing the cultural significance of new religious movements (Dawson 998a, 1 998b) using the example of Soka Gakkai. An examination of this Japanese-based, but now world-wide, new religion highlights two things: (1) it demonstrates that there is an intimate relationship between the investigation of the "success" and the "significance" of a new religious movement, though the two concerns arc not necessarily linked; and (2), and it points to the most methodologically sound foci for future research on both topics through the comparative analysis of new religious movements. The success and significance of Soka Gakkai in the West is explained in terms of certain organizational adaptations and the elective affinity of its ethos with the emergent religious sensibilities of advanced industrial societies. When the study of NRMs began in earnest in the late 1970s and early 1980s almost all sociological discussions of the meaning, importance, or significance of contemporary religious phenomena were cast against the backdrop of the theory of secularization (see Dawson 1998c:13-29, 41-62). This theory assumed that the modernization and secularization of society went hand-in-hand. With this assumption in place, most attempts to discern the cultural significance of NRMs entailed questioning whether the NRMs were in alignment with the dominant social trends of modernity, or opposed to them. This was the focus of debate, though often only implicitly. The further study of diverse NRMs suggests, however, that these theoretical terms of reference are too restrictive. Some new religions have a far more dialectical relationship with the changing religious consciousness of North Americans and western Europeans.

17. Sociology Of Religion: The Cultural Significance Of New Religious Movements: The
    sociology of Religion Search this Magazine Go to Web the postmodernist label to identifyingthe cultural significance of A Time to Chant (1994), things seem to  
    http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0SOR/3_62/79353383/p5/article.jhtml?term=

18. Http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sociology/socant/lectures/ant/lecture12.html
    many commentators, not only in anthropology but also in the fields of sociology,art history and cultural studies, have made the same point. But things are not  
    http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sociology/socant/lectures/ant/lecture12.html
    
    Extractions: 2. Now I have already advanced one argument as to why this correlation of vision with the peculiar sensibilities of western modernity may be too simple. The Inuit emphasise vision just as much as (if not more than) we do, yet their ways of perceiving and of relating to their surroundings are quite similar to those of two other non-western peoples whom I introduced – the Songhay of Niger and the Umeda of Papua New Guinea. According to their ethnographers, the Songhay and the Umeda give precedence to hearing; yet if we take the Inuit case into account, it cannot be because of their emphasis on hearing that they relate to their environment in the ways that they do. Today I want to take this argument one step further. The question is this: it may be that one culture puts a special emphasis on visual experience, and that another puts an equivalent value on auditory experience. Let’s imagine that one people say it is the eye that tells us what is really there, whereas the other say it is the ear. Evidently, cultures may vary in the extent to which they emphasise one sense or another. But has this got anything to do with how people in these cultures actually see or hear? What is the relation between the cultural evaluation of the senses, and the ways they are practically deployed in acts of perception? 3. I have emphasised the distinction between vision and visualism because so much writing in anthropology and contingent disciplines like philosophy, sociology and cultural studies which purports to be about how people see, is not really about that at all, but about how people draw upon the experience of vision, in discourse, to talk about other aspects of social and cultural life. But that leaves us with the problem of how to understand the connections between these discursive constructions and actual bodily experience. There must surely be some connection. If people’s experiences of vision differ, will that not affect the ways they understand visual metaphors? When I say ‘I see what you mean’, I am expressing my comprehension in terms of my experience of what it is like to see, not yours. How can I be sure that our respective experiences are the same?

19. Http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sociology/socant/anthro.htm
    grained texture of social and cultural life, that surrounded by people you know,things you have located within the DEPARTMENT OF sociology, the relationship  
    http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sociology/socant/anthropology.htm
    
    Extractions: What is Anthropology? The scope of modern anthropology is reflected in the way the subject is taught at Aberdeen, and in particular because anthropology is located within the DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, the relationship between anthropology and sociology informs the specific interests of staff. Our undergraduate courses draw on a wide range of material from many of the world's societies and explore the themes and topics outlined in the section on the degree structure, below. The Department of Sociology offers supervision for postgraduate students wishing to pursue the research degrees of M.Phil and PhD. The main ethnographic research areas of anthropology staff at Aberdeen are the British Isles, Europe, the Nordic countries, North Atlantic societies, and the circumpolar regions of Greenland, North America and Russia. Anthropology also ties with wider research interests at the University of Aberdeen, such as rural development, environmental management, Nordic studies and European studies. Teaching objectives The study of anthropology involves the development of critical, conceptual and analytical skills. The Department is committed to ensuring that its graduates have a good working knowledge of anthropology and the ability and imagination to apply this information. We aim to develop and enhance skills of critical enquiry, clear communication, good presentation and independence of judgement - all the virtues of a sound liberal education.

20. K-State's Program In Cultural Studies
    studies scholars study many things, they share in the Seminar in cultural Studies, and women's studies, anthropology, history, sociology, philosophy, modern  
    http://www.ksu.edu/english/programs/culturalstudies.html
    
    Extractions: Program in Cultural Studies Courses Programs Graduate Studies Undergraduate Studies Cultural Studies Creative Writing Language, Rhetoric, Literature Expository Writing ... More Information What is Cultural Studies? Literature, of course. But also music, film, television, shopping malls, sports events, cartoons, etiquette manuals, bear-baiting, and minstrel shows. Cultural studies looks at all these things and the theories that help us understand their historical and cultural significance: marxism, feminism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, post-colonial theory, and race and ethnic studies. For example, our students have written on such topics as cyberpunk and environmentalism, cartoons from Japanese American internment camps during WWII, and contemporary novels, existentialism, and death. While cultural studies scholars study many things, they share a commitment to interdisciplinarity, contextualization, and social and political engagement.

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