SOC 530

This seminar will meeting during the first six weeks of the Spring semester on Tuesdays between 9:00-12:00 in 2-N-13 Green Hall.

Because a general survey of cultural sociology was offered last year in the department, this year's seminar will focus on a few selected areas with the goal of helping graduate students identify gaps in the literature and define their own research agenda. Particular attention will be paid to comparative scholarship and comparative research strategies, as well as to the most recent literature. We will focus on the following areas: cultural repertoires and agency, boundaries, identity, inequality, and status.

Students are given responsibility for leading the discussion of specific readings in class. You are also asked to prepare short analytical memos on the readings (app. 3 pages) for three of the meetings. At the end of the seminar, you are also asked to submit a longer memo (7-10 pages) on your research agenda.

Our meetings are spread over six short weeks. Given time constrains, I have attempted to keep required readings within limits, with the assumption that students particularly interested in the field will initiate individual reading courses with faculty members. Optional readings, which are preceded by an asterisk, will be presented by a seminar member to the group. More suggested readings will be provided as we go along.

• Diana Crane, l995. "Introduction: Culture Syllabi and the Sociology of Culture: What do Syllabi Tell Us?" Pp. 1-6 in Course Syllabi for the Sociology of Culture, edited by Diana Crane and Magali Sarfatti Larson. American Sociology Association, Teaching Resource Center.
• Wendy Griswold, l992. "A Methodological Framework for the Sociology of Culture" Sociological Methodology.
• Elisabeth Long, l997. From Sociology to Cultural Studies. New York: Basil Blackwell. Introduction.
• Michael Schudson, l997. "Cultural Studies and the Construction of Social Construction: Notes on 'Teddy Bear Patriarchy." Pp. 379-398 in From Sociology to Cultural Studies, edited by Elizabeth Long. New York: Basil Blackwell.
• *Michèle Lamont and Robert Wuthnow, 1990. "Betwixt and Between: Recent Cultural Sociology in Europe and the United States." Pp. 287-315 in Frontiers of Social Theory: the New Syntheses, edited by George Ritzer. New York: Columbia University Press.

• Ann Swidler, l986. "Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies." American Sociological Review. 51: 273-86.
• William Sewell, Jr., 1992 "A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation." American Journal of Sociology. 98 (1): 1-29.
• Mabel Berezin, 1997. "Politics and Culture: A Less Fissured Terrain." Annual Review of Sociology. 23: 361-83.
• Sarah Corse, l997. Nationalism and Literature: The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1 and 7.
• Yasemin Soysal, 1994. Limits of Citizenship: Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chapters 3 and 8.
• Robert Wuthnow, 1987. Meaning and Moral Order. Berkeley: University of California Press. Selections.
• Lyn Spillman, 1997. Nation and Commemoration. Creating National Identities in the United States and Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1 and 5.
• *Charles Tilly, l993. "Contentious Repertoires in Great Britain, 1758-1834." Social Science History. 17 (2): 281-279.

• Paul DiMaggio, l997. "Culture and Cognition." Annual Review of Sociology. 23:263-87.
• Roger Friedland and Robert Alford, 1991. "Bringing Society Back in: Symbols, Practices, and Institutional Contradictions." Pp. 223-62 in The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis, edited by W.W. Powell and Paul DiMaggio. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Nicolas Dodier, 1993. "Action as a Combination of Common Worlds." The Sociological Review. 41 (3): 556-71.
• Laurent Thevenot, 1995. "New Trends in French Social Sciences" Culture. 9 (2): 1-3.
• Michèle Lamont, 1992, Money, Morals, and Manners: The Culture of the French and American Upper-Middle Class. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Introduction and conclusion. Also excerpts published in Reading Sociology, Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, ed. by David N. Newman, Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press, pp. 199-214.
• Mustafa Emirbayer, l997. "Manifesto for a Relational Sociology." American Journal of Sociology. 103 (2): 281-317.

• Karen A. Cerulo, l997. "Identity Construction: New Issues, New Direction." Annual Review of Sociology. 23: 385-409.
• Geoff Eley, l996. "Is All the World a Text? From Social History to the History of Society Two Decades Later." Pp. 193-243 in The Historic Turn in the Human Sciences, edited by Terence J. McDonald, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
• William A. Gamson. 1992. Talking Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press. Selections, chapter 5.
• Joane Nagel. Forthcoming. "Masculinity and Nationalism: Gender and Sexuality in the Making of Nations." Ethnic and Racial Studies.
• Charles Tilly. 1998. Durable Inequality. Berkeley: University of California Press. Chapters 1 and 2.
• *Joan Scott, l987. "Gender: a Useful Category of Historical Analysis." Pp. 28-50 in Gender and the Politics of History. New York: Columbia University Press.
• *David Halle. 1984. America's Working Man. Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, selections.
• *Craig Calhoun, 1994. "Social Theory and the Politics of Identity." Pp. 9-36 in Social Theory and the Politics of Identity, edited by Craig Calhoun. Cambridge: Blackwell.

• William Julius Wilson, l996. When Work Disappears. The World of the New Urban Poor. New York: Vintage. Chapter. 3.
• Douglas Massey and Nancy E. Denton, 1993. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 6.
• Ruben G. Rumbaut, 1997. "Assimilation and its Discontents: Between Rhetoric and Reality." International Migration Review. 31 (4).
• Ewa Morawska, Forthcoming. "Ethnicity as the Double Structure: A Historical-Comparative Approach." Cultural Analysis and Comparative Research in Social History, edited by Willfried Spohn. Opladen: Budrich and Leske.
• Adrian Favell. 1997. "Citizenship and Immigration: Pathologies of a Progressive Philosphy." New Community 23 (2): 173-195.
• *Aihwa Ong, 1996. "Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaries in the United States." Current Anthropology 37 (5): 737-762.
• Bonnie L. Mitchell and Joe R. Feagin, 1995. "America's Racial-Ethnic Cultures: Oppotion within a Mythical Melting Pot." Pp. 65-86 in Toward the Multicultural University, edited by Benjamin P. Bowser, Tery Jones and Gale Auletta Yougn. Westport: Praeger.
• Ruth Frankenberg, 1993. The Social Construction of Whiteness. White Women, Race Matters. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Chapter 7.

• Bethany Bryson, 1996. "Anything but Heavy Metal": Symbolic Exclusion and Musical Dislikes" American Sociological Review 61 (5): 884-899.
• Bonnie Erikson, l996. "Culture, Class, and Connections." American Journal of Sociology, 102: 217-251.
• Douglas B. Holt, 1997. "Distinction in America? Recovering Bourdieu's Theory of Taste from its Critics." Poetics. 25: 93-120.
• Ruth Horowitz, 1997. "Barriers and Bridges to Class Mobility and Formation: Ethnographies of Stratification." Sociological Methods and Research. 25 (4): 495-538.
• Andrea Press, 1994. "The Sociology of Cultural Perception: Notes towards an Emerging Paradigm." Pp. 221-45 in Sociology of Culture: Emerging Theoretical Perspectives, edited by Diana Crane. London: Basil Blackwell.
• Richard Peterson and Roger Kern, 1996. "Changing Highbrow Taste: From Snob to Omnivore." American Sociological Review. 61: 900-907.
• Phillippe Bourgeois, 1995. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 4.