List of Contributors.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction: Culture and Cultural Sociology: Lyn Spillman.

Part I: Analyzing Culture in Society: Key Ideas.

Part II: Cultural Repertoires: Identities and Practices.

Part III: Cultural Production: Institutional Fields.

Part IV: Cultural Frameworks: Categories, Genre, and
Narrative.

Part V: Social Change and Cultural Innovation.

Index.

"Cultural Sociology radiates with the vitality of today's cultural analysis. The selections and editor's notes offer a mapping of the field that will ehlp students and scholars alike find their ways." John R. Hall, University of California at Davis


"Lyn Spillman has rendered an enormous service to one of the most important developments in American social science, the full incorporation of the cultural dimension into its frameworks of analysis. It will be extremely valuable for students and for the profession as a whole." Vera Zolberg, New School University.

Lyn Spillman is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Nation and Commemoration: Celebrating National Identities in the United States and Australia (1997) and a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001..

L. Spillman, University of Notre Dame