The Blackwell Companion To The Sociology Of Culture

This collection of original, state-of-the-art essays by prominent international scholars covers the most important issues comprising the sociology of culture.

• Provides an invaluable reference resource to all interested in the cultural structures and processes that animate contemporary life
  
• Contains 27 essays on the most important issues comprising the sociology of culture, including art, science, religions, race, class, gender, collective memory, institutions, and citizenship
  
• Reflects and analyzes the “cultural turn” that has transformed scholarship in the social sciences and humanities.

Mark D. Jacobs is Professor of Sociology at George Mason University, where he has also served as Founding Director of the first interdisciplinary PhD program in Cultural Studies in the U.S. He has written Screwing the System and Making It Work: Juvenile Justice in the No-Fault Society (Chicago, 1990); collaborated with Gerald Suttles on Front Page Economics (Chicago, 2010); and co-edited Culture, Communication and Creativity (Peter Lang, 2014) with Hubert Knoblauch and Rene Tuma. With Lynette Spillman, he co-edited a special issue of Poetics on "Cultural Sociology and Sociological Publics" (33:1, 2005). He has chaired both the Section on the Sociology of Culture of the American Sociological Association and the Research Network on Culture of the European Sociological Association.
Nancy Weiss Hanrahan is Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason University with research specializations in cultural sociology, sociology of music, and critical theory. She is the author of Difference in Time: A Critical Theory of Culture and the forthcoming Musical Discovery: Aesthetic Value in the Age of Digital Reproduction, which explores musical discovery, new modes of listening, and aesthetic experience in the digital music world.