Matters of culture : cultural sociology in practice / edited by Roger Friedland and John Mohr

Includes bibliographical references and index

Cultural turn in American sociology / Roger Friedland and John Mohr -- Culture and continuity : causal structures in socio-cultural persistence / Orlando Patterson -- Theorizing hermeneutic cultural history / John R. Hall -- Cultural studies as fin-de-siècle culture / Mark A. Schneider -- Private devotions and the sacred heart of Elvis : the Durkheimians and the (re)turn of the sacred / Richard D. Hecht -- Social marking of the past : toward a socio-semiotics of memory / Eviatar Zerubavel -- On the social construction of moral universals : the "Holocaust" from war crime to trauma drama / Jeffrey C. Alexander -- Social justice in the age of identity politics : redistribution, recognition, and participation / Nancy Fraser -- Are we all in the closet? : notes toward a sociological and cultural turn in queer theory / Steven Seidman -- Why (not) Foucault? : reflections on power, fascism, and aesthetics / Simonetta Falasca Zamponi -- Audience aesthetics and popular culture / Denise D. Bielby and William T. Bielby -- Grounding the postmodern : a story of empirical research on fuzzy concepts / Magali Sarfatti Larson -- How art works : form and function in the stuff of life / Harvey Molotch -- Ethnosympathy : reflections on an American dilemma / Jon D. Cruz