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Cultural sociology - or the sociology of culture - has grown from a minority interest in the 1970s to become one of the largest and most vibrant areas within sociology globally. In The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Sociology, a global range of experts explore the theory, methodology and innovations that make up this ever-expanding field. The Handbook's 40 original chapters have been organised into five thematic sections: Theoretical Paradigms Major Methodological Perspectives Domains of Inquiry Cultural Sociology in Contexts Cultural Sociology and Other Analytical Approaches Both comprehensive and current, The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Sociology will be an essential reference tool for both advanced students and scholars across sociology, cultural studies and media studies.
The ‘Production of Culture Perspective’ in Perspective
The ‘Production of Culture Perspective’ in Perspective
INTRODUCTION
With the formula ‘production of culture’ sociologists may mean two very different albeit intertwined things: a general reference to the world of cultural creation and fabrication, and a more focused intellectual perspective first articulated in the 1970s and developed in the next two decades mainly thanks to sociologist Richard A. Peterson (1932–2010) and his collaborators.1 A late professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Peterson's name has not been among those who sociologists are expected to know or have read, unless they work in those specialties Peterson worked on for almost all his professional life – i.e. the sociology of arts and the sociological analysis of cultural life. Comparatively, his ...
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