• 1. Introduction: Cultural Sociology Today



• Jeffrey C. Alexander, Ron Jacobs, Philip Smith



• PART I The Cultural Method in Sociology



• 2. Cultural Sociology as a Research Program: Post-Positivism, Meaning, and Causality



• Isaac Ariail Reed



• 3. Rationalization Processes inside Cultural Sociology



• Richard Biernacki



• 4. Four Ways to Measure Culture: Social Science, Hermeneutics, and the Cultural Turn



• John Mohr and Craig Rawlings



• PART II The Economic as Culture



• 5. Culture and the Economy



• Carlo Tognato



• 6. Culture and Economic Life



• Lyn Spillman



• PART III The Political as Culture



• 7. From Moral Sentiments to Civic Engagement: Sociological Analysis as Responsible Spectatorship



• Robin Wagner-Pacifici



• 8. Reinventing the Concept of Civic Culture



• Paul Lichterman



• 9. Cultural Sociology and Civil Society in a World of Flows: Recapturing Ambiguity, Hybridity and the Political



• Gianpaolo Biaocchi



• PART IV The Media as Culture



• 10. Mediatized Disasters in the Global Age: On the Ritualization of Catastrophe



• Simon Cottle



• 11. Media, Intellectuals, the Public Sphere, and the Story of Barack Obama in 2008



• Eleanor Townsely



• 12. Entertainment Media and the Aesthetic Public Sphere



• Ronald Jacobs



• PART V Race and Immigration as Culture



• 13. Rethinking the Relationship of African American Men to the Street



• Al Young



• 14. Ethnicity, Race, Nationhood, Foreignness, Etc.: Prolegomena to a Cultural Sociology of Difference-Based Interactions



• Giuseppe Sciortino



• 15. Burning Schools/Building Bridges: Ethnographical Touchdowns in the Civil Sphere



• Mats Trondman



• PART VI Religion as Culture



• 16. The Constitution of Religious Political Violence: Institution, Culture and Power



• Roger Friedland



• 17. Globalization, Culture and Religion



• Kenneth Thompson



• PART VII Social Movements as Culture



• 18. Narrative and Social Movements



• Francesca Polletta and Bobby Chen



• 19. The Politics of Authenticity: Civic Individualism and the Cultural Roots of Gay Normalization



• Steven Seidman, Chet Meeks, and James Dean



• PART VIII Trauma as Culture



• 20. Rethinking Conflict and Memory: the case of Nanjing



• Barry Schwartz



• 21. Cultural Trauma: Emotion and Narration



• Ron Eyerman



• 22. The Chinese Construction and Repression of Trauma: The Rape of Nanjing



• Jeffrey C. Alexander and Rui Gao



• PART IX Events as Culture



• 23. Events as Templates of Possibility: An Analytic Typology of Political Facts



• Mabel Berezin



• 24. Cultural Pragmatics and the Structure and Flow of Democratic Politics



• Jason Mast



• PART X Materiality as Culture



• 25. Consumption as Cultural Interpretation: Taste, Performativity and Navigating The Forest Of Objects



• Ian Woodward



• 26. The Force of Embodiment: Bodies, Dispositions and Culture



• Arthur Frank



• 27. Music Sociology in a New Key



• Lisa McCormick



• PART XI Knowledge as Culture



• 28. Narrating Global Warming



• Philip Smith



• PART XII Classification and Ambiguity as Culture



• 29. Broadening the Strong Program in Cultural Sociology: Focus On Mundane Life in Organizations



• Nina Eliasoph and Jade Lo



• 30. Inbetweenness and Ambivalence



• Bernhard Giesen